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Illegal logs found in TTY truck
- 12 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Conservation officials have confiscated a truck containing 20 cubic metres of illegally cut, luxury-grade timber from an economic land concession owned by the firm TTY Corporation, a district official said yesterday. Kratie provincial officials seized the logs, along with two trucks and two cars on Monday ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061266220/National/illegal-logs-found-in-tty-truck.html
Boeung Kak villagers, city officials talking titles
- 7 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Local authorities met with Boeung Kak community members yesterday to register villagers left out of the oft-criticised resettlement scheme as a first step to providing them with titles and onsite housing. More than 10 officials including police, commune and village chief, as well as representatives of ...
On World Environment Day, a Call to Save Cambodia’s Forests
- 6 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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About 200 people celebrating World Environment Day on Wednesday gathered in front of the National Assembly to submit a petition asking the government to stop the destruction of Cambodia’s forests. A report released by the WWF last month said that Cambodia has lost almost a ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/on-world-environment-day-a-call-to-save-cambodias-forests-29329/
Forest officials involved in logging, villagers say
- 5 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Communities living in the protected Snuol wildlife sanctuary in Kratie province said yesterday that the sanctuary was being destroyed by private companies acting in collusion with local wildlife officers. Snuol forest community representative Mom Sakim said private interests were claiming large areas of the sanctuary without ...
Authorities Deny Abuses at Thai Plantation Tied To CPP Senator
- 4 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Oddar Meanchey province deputy governor Lon An yesterday confirmed CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s involvement in a trio of sugar cane plantations that rights groups took to the National Human rights Commission of Thailand last week, but denied their allegations of rights abuses. The deputy ...
Try Pheap given OK to harvest yellow vine
- 4 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Logging baron Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co, Ltd has been granted a licence to collect and process the controversial plant known as yellow vine around the Stung Atay hydropower dam in the Cardamom Mountains, according to documents received by the Post yesterday. The vine has ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466045/National/try-pheap-given-ok-to-harvest-yellow-vine.html
Sugar firm under fire
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Asia’s largest sugar company has been accused of torching hundreds of homes, orchestrating the imprisonment of a pregnant activist and using security forces to beat villagers – among a raft of other grave human rights abuses – by communities in Oddar Meanchey province. The allegations levelled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366024/National/sugar-firm-under-fire.html
$1.3m SEZ Japanese Restaurant Opens Doors
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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In a $1.3 million investment, a new Japanese restaurant opened in the Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) last week amid the large presence of Japanese companies in the area. The 1,000-square-metre Tokyo Restaurant looks to “help to [showcase] the culture of Japanese food, and provide ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366009/Business/1-3m-sez-japanese-restaurant-opens-doors.html
Homes, Trees Destroyed, Villagers Say
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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About 50 police, soldiers and environmental officials yesterday demolished two houses and cut down thousands of trees belonging to families who are locked in a land dispute with MDS Import Export Co, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, villagers in Pursat province claimed. Fellow villager Khouch ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165987/National/homes-trees-destroyed-villagers-say.html
Jarai Villagers Ask UN for Help in Land Fight
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
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More than 300 ethnic Jarai families from Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district in longstanding land disputes with two Vietnamese land concessionaires submitted a petition to UN human rights officers yesterday asking for help. Village representative Romas Chvat said locals were participating in an NGO-led workshop on protest ...
Thai border SEZs set for discussion next month
- 29 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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In an effort to boost trade activity between Thailand and Cambodia, both countries will discuss plans for two special economic zones along the Thai-Cambodian border next month, according to the secretary of state at the Cambodian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday. “It will provide us ...
Hor Kimsay and Anne Renzenbrink
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052965902/Business/thai-border-sezs-set-for-discussion-next-month.html
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html
Villagers Seize Trucks in Protest
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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More than 300 protesters seized two company trucks outside the Kratie office of Korean-owned timber company Think Biotech Co yesterday as protests by villagers who allege land-grabbing continued for a second day. “We have seized the company’s two trucks to ask the company to come ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865873/National/villagers-seize-trucks-in-protest.html
Call for Arsenal to Drop Links With Rubber Firm
- 27 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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An online petition has been launched calling on English Premier League football club Arsenal to break its ties with a Vietnamese rubber company accused of land grabbing and deforestation in Cambodia. A report by London-based Global Witness this month named Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) as ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/call-for-arsenal-to-drop-links-with-rubber-firm-26801/
CNRP Lawmaker Visits Controversial Plantation
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Opposition lawmaker Son Chhay said yesterday that he would ask the government to cancel the land concession of a Vietnamese rubber firm in Ratanakkiri province he accused of logging and exporting wood illegally. Mr. Chay, a candidate in July’s national election for the Cambodia National Rescue ...
Students Protest At UN Envoy’s University Lecture
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Higher education / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Cambodian Mekong University / CMU / CMU university students / Disputed Land / ELCs / foreign investment / Human Rights / human rights report / international investors / international law / Investment / Land rights / law of foreign investment / Phnom Penh / protests / Royal University of Law and Economics / Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi / students / Surya Subedi / U.N. / UN / UN Envoy to Cambodia / UN Envoy to Cambodia Suyrya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur / UN special rapporteur on human rights / UN Special Rapporteur Surya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur to Cambodia / United Nations / University of Leeds
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi on Tuesday received a thorny reception from hundreds of students at a Phnom Penh university, who angrily questioned his impartiality and unfurled banners calling for him to end his work in Cambodia. Special rapporteur Subedi delivered a lecture to about ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/students-protest-at-un-envoys-university-lecture-25855/
Dad ‘Threatened’ by Court
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Adhoc Provincial Coordinator Chhay Thy / Chhay Thy / Disputed Land / DM Group / DM Group Company / economic land concession / ELCs / Eng Chamnag / Farmland / land clearing / Land rights / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Ratanakkiri Provincial Court Judge / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / rubber / Rubber DM Group Company / Rubber plantation / Ry Sarun
The father of three youths allegedly beaten by DM Group workers earlier this month said court officers yesterday threatened to imprison him if he did not agree to compromise with the company and drop the case. Ry Sarun appeared at Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday to answer ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265776/National/dad-threatened-by-court.html
Troubled Village Embroiled In New Land Disputes
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / Social land concessions
- agro-industry companies / Appeal Court / Beehive Radio / Beehive radio owner Mam Sonando / broma / Broma village / Casotim / Cham / Chan Kong / community forest / Court of Appeal / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethnic Cham minorities / Farmland / forced evictions / forest clearing / Heng Chantha / kratie / Kratie district governor / Kratie district governor Sam Sarith / Kratie Province / Kratie provincial government department of land management / Mam Sonando / Phnom Penh Municipal Court / Pro Ma / Pro Mar / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sam Sarith / social land concessions
A year after a massive military raid here that left a 14-year old girl dead and hundreds of families evicted, there remains little sign of the original land dispute that turned this rural village into a hotbed of agitation. But a new firm and a government-issued ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/troubled-village-embroiled-in-new-land-disputes-25184/
Trade Deal Threat Still On Table
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
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The European union’s executive arm has responded to its parliamentarians’ concerns over rights abuses stemming from Cambodia’s economic land concessions, maintaining that, should the need arise, it “will be ready” to withdraw from its preferential trade agreements with the Kingdom. In a joint letter to concerned ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065716/National/trade-deal-threat-still-on-table.html
Pheapimex Opponent Arrested
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- Bin Vanna / Cambodian Peace Network / Disputed Land / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELCs / Fraud / Krakor district / Krakor District Police Chief Bin Vanna / Kuch Veng / Land dispute / land eviction / Land-grabbing / Lun Sivy / Pheapimex / Pheapimex Company / Pheapimex Group / Pursat / Pursat Province / Tycoons
A well-known community representative who has long battled alleged land-grabbing by economic land concessionaire Pheapimex Group was arrested on fraud accusations and jailed in Pursat province’s Krakor district yesterday.Fellow community representative Lun Sivy, 42, said Kuch Veng, a member of the Cambodian Peace Network, was ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065715/National/pheapimex-opponent-arrested.html
Ethnic villagers, firm battle over Ratanakkiri plot
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Investment / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Bakeo district / Chhay Thy / ethnic minority / Keh Chung commune / Keh Chung commune chief / land conflict / Land dispute / land title / Land-grabbing / lawsuit / Ly Sokkim Co Ltd / Ministry of Commerce / Par Or Adhoc provincial co-ordinator Chhay Thy / ratanak kiri / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri court / Rocham Lai / Tompuon / warrant
A local official and four ethnic minority Tompuon villagers appeared in a Ratanakkiri court on Friday to face accusations of land-grabbing and protesting against a private company that purchased their land in 2007, authorities said yesterday. Rocham Pheun, an assistant to the chief of Keh Chung ...
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Crop products and commodities / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / European Union aid / Exports / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
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The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Hun Sen Hopes for Increased Rubber Exports
- 16 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Land / Public land lease / Rubber / Trade
- CamControl / ELCs / Global Witness / Investment / Land titles / land-titling program / nationwide land titling program / natural rubber resin / Prime Minister Hun Sen / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / Rubber Companies / rubber exports / rubber industry / rubber plantations / rubber processing / rubber trees / rubber-processing factory / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / trade regulator Camcontrol / Vietnamese rubber companies / Vietnamese Rubber Group / VRG
Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday that he hoped land being registered to rural families as part of the government’s nationwide land-titling program would be used to cultivate rubber trees in order to help the country compete with Vietnam as the world’s third-largest rubber exporter. ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-hopes-for-increased-rubber-exports-24502/
Charges in Ratanakkiri arson
- 16 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease
- CRD / deputy prosecutor Mom Vanda / economic land concession / ELC / Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri / land conflict / Land dispute / Ly Sok Ngim / Mom Vanda / Nguyeng Hong Fou / plantation / Ratanakkiri provincial court / rubber / rubber business / rubber company / Rubber plantation / Sim Borin / Vietnamese rubber concessionaire
The Ratanakkiri Provincial Court yesterday charged two staffers of Vietnamese rubber concessionaire Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri (CRD) with causing intentional damage for allegedly setting fire to several homes belonging to a landowner with whom they were embroiled in a land dispute, deputy prosecutor Mom Vanda said. ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051665652/National/charges-in-ratanakkiri-arson.html