Agricultural commodities, processing and products
Crop products and commodities
Families seek to Farm Land Claimed by RCAF
- 30 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rice
- Adhoc / Agriculture & Agri-business / Bantey Meanchey / Bantey Meanchey Province / border issues / border protection / borders / Brigadier General Lanh Kao / Cassava / Chop Vary Commune / crops / Disputed Land / farming / Farmland / General Lanh Kao / harvesting / illegal border crossing / illegal migrant workers / land ownership / Lanh Kao / migrants / migration / Military soldiers / Preah Net Preah / Preah Netr Preah commune / Preah Netr Preah district / RCAF / RCAF artillery unit / RCAF Brigadier General Lanh Kao / RCAF headquarters / RCAF tank unit / rice / Rice Farming / rice paddy / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / soldiers / Thai Border / Thailand
Some 300 families from Bantey Meanchey province’s Preah Netr Preah district-embroiled in two separate long-running disputes with Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF)-yesterday submitted complaints to the provincial governor asking for permission to temporarily farm on the land until the ownership dispute is resolved, villagers and ...
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
- Adhoc / Beoung Per / Beoung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Chhim Savuth / CRCK / CRCK Company / deforestation / ELCs / ELCs Law / environmental impact / Exports / Forest / Hoeun Sopheap / illegal logging / Illegal poaching / illegal timber trade / Kampong Thom Province / Kampong Thom Provincial Governor / logging / luxury timber / natural resources / Oknha Try Pheap / Preah Vihear / Prey Lang / Prey Lang Community Representative / Prey Long Forest / protected area / protected forest / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rovieng District / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sandan district / timber / Try Pheap Import and Export / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Uth Sam Orn / Vietnamese border / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK / water / WaterSHED / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary / Wood
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
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development
- agro-industry / Boeung Char commune / Community Representative / deforestation / Disputed Land / ELCs / eviction / Farm Land / Forest / Illegal poaching / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Korea / Korean company / kratie / Kratie Province / land conflict / Land dispute / Land protest / Land-grabbing / protests / Sam No / Sambor district / Sambor District Governor / Seng Sotha / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province / Think Biotech / Think Biotech Timber Company / timber / villagers
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
Vietnam invests in largest sugar project in Cambodia
- 27 May 2013
- VOV News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Energy / Generation and distribution facilities / Investment / Sugar
- Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam / BIDV / Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly / Electricity / energy / ethanol / ethanol and thermal power plants / fertilizers / foreign investment / Indian technologies / international fertilizer group / Japanese technologies / job creation / Kamdhenu Ventures Cambodia Limited / Kratie Province / Kratie province military operation / KVCL / Okrieng commune / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sombour district / sugar / sugarcane / sugarcane factory / thermal power / thermal power plant / Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung / Yim Chay Ly
The largest complex of sugarcane, ethanol and thermal power plants in Cambodia was inaugurated in Okrieng commune, Sombour district, Kratie province on May 26. Addressing the ceremony, Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly emphasized that the complex inauguration in Kratie was the outcome of the ...
Call for Arsenal to Drop Links With Rubber Firm
- 27 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber
- Arsenal / Arsenal Football Club / deforestation / ELCs / football / Global Witness / global witness report / HAGAL chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / HAGL / Ho Chi Minh City Stock Exchange / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Ivan Gazidis / job creation / land disputes / Land-grabbing / online petition / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / Rubber Companies / Taxes / Vietnamese rubber company
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/
Rice exports to region rising
- 23 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Investment / Rice / Trade
- Agriculture & Agri-business / Alliance of Rice Producers and Exporter of Cambodia / ARPEC / Asia / Asian market / Chinese aid / Chinese Market / Cngrain.com / David Van / EU / Europe / European Union market / Everything But Arms / Exports / Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters / fragrant rice / France / import tax / Indonesia / Kim Savuth / least developed countries / Malaysian aid / Milled Rice / One Window Service / Poland / rice / rice export / rice export destination / rice importers / Rice Millers / tax exemption / Thailand / trade preferential treatment
Cambodian milled rice exports are gradually lessening their dependency on a single market by expanding their shipping destination in Asia, a sign insiders say is good news for the industry. Kim Savuth, president of the Federation of Cambodian Rice Exporters, told the Post yesterday that milled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052365791/Business/rice-exports-to-region-rising.html
CNRP Lawmaker Visits Controversial Plantation
- 22 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Community forest / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest classifications / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development
- Adhoc / Cambodia National Rescue Party / CNRP / CNRP law maker Son Chhay / Company 72 / degraded forests / Disputed Land / ELCs / ethic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai minorities / ethnic minority land / Forests / Human Rights / illegal logging / illegal logging trade / indigenous people / indigenous peoples land / indigenous peoples rights / Jarai / Jarai community / Land concessions / logging / National Assembly / O’Yadaw district / opposition law maker Son Chhay / Plantations / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / rubber firms / Rubber plantation / Son Chhay / Vietnamese rubber firm
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 ...
Cambodia launches cassava development project under China, UNDP support
- 21 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Biofuel crops / Chinese aid / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Non-DAC members / Trade
- agricultural crop / Agriculture & Agri-business / Agro-Business / Cassava / cassava chips / cassava crop / cassava cultivation / cassava development project / cassava farmers / cassava sector / China's Ministry of Commerce department of international trade and economic affairs / Chinese aid / Chinese Ministry of Commerce / department of international trade and economic affairs / Economic Development / Employment / Export / first secretary Lu Zhouxiang / Lu Zhouxiang / Minister of Agriculture secretary of state Teng Lao / Ministry of Agriculture / poverty reduction / Protocol on the Exports of Cambodian Cassava to Chinese Market / Teng Lao / Thailand / UNDP / UNDP to Cambodia country director Setsuko Yamazaki / United Nations Development Program / value chain
Cambodia launched Tuesday the second phase of cassava development project under the support of China and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP). Cambodia and China signed a Protocol on the Exports of Cambodian Cassava to Chinese Market in December 2010, under which China allowed Cambodia ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-05/21/c_132397799.htm
Cambodia, Vietnam Trade Rises
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
- Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Energy / Exports / Extractive Industries / Imports / Maize (corn) / Non-renewable energy production / Oil and gas resources / Trade
- agricultural products / Cambodia / Corn / corn exports / Exports / Gas / Imports / oil / oil and gas / Oil and Gas Product / rubber / Tobacco / Tobacco Materials / Trade / vegetables and fruits / Vietnam Trade Office / Vietnam-Cambodia Trade / Wood / Wooden Products / ផលិតផលកៅស៊ូ
Two-way trade between Vietnam and Cambodia in the first four months of the year reached nearly US$1.3 billion, a 10 per cent rise over the same period last year. According to the Vietnam Trade Office in Cambodia, Vietnam’s exports to Cambodia fetched over $1 billion while ...
The Cambodia Herald Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=YzA1YWUwMDU3OTh
Kampot pepper yield down
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Investment / Maize (corn) / Pepper
- Bright Starling Holdings Co / champagne / climate / Climate Change / France / geographical indication / GI / GI Status / Him Anna / hot weather / intellectual property / Kampot / Kampot pepper / Kampot Pepper Promotion Association / Kep / KPPA / Nguon Lay / peper yields / pepper / pepper plantation / pepper production / pepper sale / red pepper / white pepper
This year’s weather has proven too hot for the Kingdom’s famous Kampot pepper, as yields of the spice dropped for the first time since 2008. Some 22 tonnes of pepper were harvested this year between January and May, short of the 27 tonnes predicted for this ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065706/Business/kampot-pepper-yield-down.html
Agriculture needs more loans, irrigation systems, experts say
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Banking and financial services / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Rice
- ACLEDA Bank / agricultural organisation / Agriculture & Agri-business / agriculture sector / Cambodia Chamber of Commerce / canal water / CEDAC / CEDAC president / crop / crop yields / cultivable areas / Farmers / financial / irrigation / irrigation system / Lim Heng / Lim Kean Hor / loan / low-interest loans / Minister of Water Resources and Metrology / private sector development / rainfall / rice / rice cultivation / rice sector / Srey Chanthy / Yang Saing Koma
Accessing low-interest loans for rice cultivation is a challenge because the industry in Cambodia is dependant upon rainfall and not irrigation and is thus more risky, experts said last week. In a meeting on the private sector development in the rice sector, Lim Heng, vice president ...
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
- Cambodian Trade Minister Cham Prasidh / Cham Prasidh / Convention Concerning Minimum Age for Admission to Employment / Disputed Land / Eang Vuthy / EBA / economic land concession / Economic Land Concessions (ELCs) / ELC / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / European Commission / European Commission Member / European Commission Vice President / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / International Covenant on Economic Social and Cultural Rights / Jean-Francois Cautain / Kampong Speu / Karel De Gucht / Katherine Ashton / Land rights / Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh / NGOs / no-tariff agreement / sugar / sugar industry / Trade / trade deals
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
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
- Cambodian Government / Catherine Ashton / duty free goods / duty-free access / EBA / Economics / ELCs / EU / EU duty free access / EU foreign affairs representative / EU high representative for foreign affairs Catherine Ashton / EU high representative for security policy / EU high representative for security policy Catherine Ashton / EU trade commissioner / European Commission / European Council / European Council President Herman van Rompuy / European Parliament / European Union aid / European Union foreign affairs representative / European Union trade commissioner / Everything but Arms trade agreement / Everything but arms trade scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / garment sector / garments / garments industry / Generalized System of Preferences / GSP / Herman Van Rompuy / Human Rights / Hun Sen / Karel De Gucht / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Land titles / London / Prime Minister Hun Sen / RGC / Royal Government of Cambodia / sugar / sugar plantations / Surya Subedi / Tate & Lyle / Trade EU Trade Commissioner Karel de Gucht / trade partners / U.N.’s special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / UK / UN special rapporteur on human rights / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia / UN special rapporteur on human rights to Cambodia Surya Subedi / United Kingdom
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
Cambodian PM inaugurates rubber processing plant in far northern province
- 15 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Investment / Land / Public land lease / Rubber / Trade
- Chinese aid / dry rubber / ELCs / Exports / job creation / Malaysian aid / Ministry of Commerce / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / processed rubber / rubber / rubber exports / rubber plantations / rubber processing plant / rubber sector / rubber trees / Sesan district / Sopheak Nika Investment Agro-Industry Company / Stung Treng / Stung Treng Province
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday inaugurated a rubber processing plant here, saying the factory would contribute to developing the country’s fast-growing rubber sector. The 7 million U.S. dollar plant, invested by Cambodia’s Sopheak Nika Investment Agro-Industry Company, was built on the area of 9 ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/15/c_132384351.htm
Thai restrictions cap cassava exports
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Trade
- Agriculture & Agri-business / Bangkok Post / Banteay Meanchey Province / Battambang / Battambang Province / Cassava / cassava exports / cassava plantation / Cassava prices / Cham Prasidh / Chinese aid / Commerce Minister Cham Prasidh / Exports / fourth Cambodia-Thailand Joint Trade Committee meeting / import restriction measures / import restrictions / maize / Ministry of Commerce / Thailand
Cambodia’s cassava exports reached 245,438 tonnes in the first quarter this year, a 47 per cent decline quarter-on-quarter, from 465,640 tonnes in the final quarter of last year, according to statistics from the Ministry of Commerce released early this month. While most exports went to Thailand, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565618/Business/thai-restrictions-cap-cassava-exports.html
Vietnam rubber tycoon rejects land grabbing accusations
- 14 May 2013
- Thanh Nien News
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development / The poor
- Cambodian Government / company shares / corporate environmental responsibility / corporate social responsibility / deforestation / Deutsche Bank / Doan Nguyen Duc / environmental responsibility / forced evictions / forest protection / Global Witness / Global Witnesses / HAGL / HAGL Group / HAGL Group chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / HAGL shares / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai chairman Doan Nguyen Duc / Hoang Anh Gia Lai company / IFC / illegal logging / job creation / Kien Thuc news / land acquisitions / Laos / Laos government / Radio Australia / Royal Government of Cambodia / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / Rubber Companies / rubber plantations / stock market / Taxes / VRG / World Bank
A Vietnamese rubber tycoon has rejected accusations by Global Witness, a group that campaigns on resource issues, that it was involved in a land grabbing crisis in Southeast Asia. Doan Nguyen Duc, the chairman of Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group, told Vietnamese media the information ...
IFC, Deutsche Bank respond to Global Witness report
- 14 May 2013
- Radio Free Asia
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber
- Deutsche Bank / Deutsche Bank Head of Communications Michael West / Deutsche Bank Managing Director Michael West / Dong Phu Rubber / Dragon Capital / DWS / environmental management / forced evictions / Global Witness / HAGL / Hannfried von Hindenburg / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai company / Hoang Anh Gia Lai Group / IFC / IFC Head of Communications Hannfried von Hindenburg / illegal logging / Investment / land acquisitions / Land grabs / Land rights / Michael West / rubber / Rubber Barons / Rubber Barons report / rubber plantations / social risk management / VEIL / Vietnam Rubber Group / Vietnamese rubber companies / VRG / World Bank
On May 13, we ran an interview with London-based NGO Global Witness accusing the Deutsche Bank and the International Finance Corporation of financing two Vietnamese rubber companies that are allegedly involved in land grabs in Cambodia and Laos. We asked both banks for a response ...
Cambodia Plantations Not IFC’s First Controversy
- 14 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber / Sihanoukville / Sugar
- Cambodia Airports / Deutsche Bank / Deutsche Bank spokesman Michael West / Dong Phu / DWS Vietnam Fund / Equitable Cambodia / forced evictions / forest clearing / Global Witness / Global witnesses report / HAGL / Hannfried von Hindenburg / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / IFC / IFC spokesman Hannfried von Hindenburg / IFC’s compliance ombudsman / illegal logging / KSL / Michael West / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh International Airport / Plantations / rubber / Rubber Barons / rubber plantations / Sihanoukville airport / sugar / sugar plantations / VEIL / Vietnam Enterprise Investment Limited / Vietnam Rubber Group / Vinci Group / World Bank
In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused of illegal logging and forced evictions, both institutions have denied responsibility and deflected the blame ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-plantations-not-ifcs-first-controversy-23793/
Villagers Burn Down Soldiers’ Shelter on Disputed Land
- 14 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Land / Land tenure and land titling
- Adhoc / CIV Company Development Agro-Industry / Disputed Land / KDC / KDC agro-industry firm / Kompong Chhnang / Kompong Chhnang Province / Kompong Chhnang Provincial Court / Kompong Tralach district / land demarcation / Minister of Industry Mines and Energy Suy Sem / Ministry of Industry Mines and Energy / Ministry of Management / RCAF / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Ta Ches commune
Three members of the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) on Monday filed a complaint with police in Kompong Chhnang province, accusing irate villagers of torching a wooden shelter built for them by the well-connected KDC agro-industry firm. The soldiers have accused local residents, who have been ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-burn-down-soldiers-shelter-on-disputed-land-23790/
Agricultural brokerage firm begins operations
- 14 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Investment / Maize (corn) / Rice
- agricultural products / agricultural sector / Agriculture & Agri-business / Amru Rice Cambodia / brokerage firm / Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture / CEDAC / Chief Cambodia Holding / Director of Chief Cambodia Holding Te Tea Sieng / Hong Kong / Phnom Penh / rice / Rice Millers / Song Saran / Te Tea Sieng / Yang Saing Koma
Chief Cambodia Holding, a Hong Kong-based brokerage firm, started its operations in Phnom Penh yesterday. The company aims to strengthen Cambodian agricultural products, a company official said. The company reserved $100 million investment capital to connect domestic agricultural producers to the market, Director of Chief Cambodia ...
Deutsche Bank, IFC Rubber Investments Questioned
- 13 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Public land lease / Rubber
- "tiger skin" policy / Bangkok / Cambodia / concessions / Deutsche Bank / Doan Nguyen Duc / Dong Nai / Dong Phu / Dragon Capital / EIA / ELCs / environmental impact assessments / ethnic minorities / evictions / Global Witness / HAGL / HAGL Group / Heng Brother / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) / Hong Kong / IFC / illegal logging / kratie / Laos / logging / London Stock Exchange / Ministry of Agriculture / protesting evictions / Ratanakiri / rubber / Rubber Companies / rubber plantations / Tan Bien / UK / VEIL / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Enterprise Investment Limited / Vietnamese rubber companies / Vietnamese Rubber Group / villagers / VRG
Deutsche Bank and the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) have poured millions of dollars into Vietnamese rubber companies operating in Cambodia that have engaged in illegal logging and forced evictions of local farmers, the environmental rights group Global Witness says in a new report ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/deutsche-bank-ifc-rubber-investments-questioned-23598/