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Agriculture
Families to rejoin protests against sugar farms
Villagers in Koh Kong province left out of compensation deals that some of their neighbors are receiving for land lost to sugar plantations have gathered about 300 signatures on a petition demanding to be included in the payouts and hope to gather more before submitting ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-to-rejoin-protests-against-sugar-farms-77251/
Villagers in Ratanakkiri prevent company from clearing land
About 100 villagers prevented a company from clearing part of its land concession in Ratanakkiri province’s Lumphat district on Saturday in the latest confrontation in a long-running dispute in the Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary, according to a villager and a local official. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-ratanakkiri-prevent-company-from-clearing-land-77219/
CNRP calls for government intervention in agriculture
The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party has called on the government to intervene in the softening prices of Cambodian agricultural commodities. In a letter passed to Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday, via National Assembly president Heng Samrin, a group of opposition lawmakers has raised concerns ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cnrp-calls-government-intervention-agriculture
Bunong villagers upset at industrialist’s silence
Ethnic Bunong communities in Mondulkiri’s Bousraa commune will soon hold protests that will call on French industrialist Vincent Bollore to honour promises his firm made during a meeting with them in Paris in October, a representative has said. His Bollore investment group is a shareholder in ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bunong-villagers-upset-industrialists-silence
‘No proof’ in Koh Kong land fight: judge
Villagers in Koh Kong province were sent back to the drawing board yesterday, when the Court of Appeal upheld the provincial court’s decision that about 62 hectares of land belongs to Heng Huy Co. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/no-proof-koh-kong-land-fight-judge
Villagers want ELC revoked
Hundreds of indigenous families from Ratanakkiri’s Andong Meas district have demanded the government cancel the economic land concession of a Vietnamese rubber company that they say is illegally prospecting for gold. About a dozen people representing 384 families handed a petition to CNRP lawmakers yesterday requesting ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-want-elc-revoked
EU hires experts to help gov’t compensate evictees
The European Union (EU) said this week that it has hired a pair of consultants to help the government design a system for compensating the thousands of families believed to have had their homes or farms illegally confiscated by the country’s private sugar plantations. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-hires-experts-to-help-govt-compensate-evictees-76567/
Subedi talks rights with CCC president Kith Meng
The United Nation’s human rights envoy Surya Subedi met yesterday with the president of Cambodia Chamber of Commerce, Kith Meng, to discuss human rights and economic growth in the Kingdom. At the top of the agenda was the management of economic land concessions and the role ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/subedi-talks-rights-ccc-president-kith-meng
NA commission sides with Memot disputants
The National Assembly’s Human Rights and Complaints Commission has asked the government to grant land titles to more than 500 families in Tbong Khmum whose land is claimed by a rubber plantation. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-commission-sides-memot-disputants
NA commission member visits K Chhnang KDC site
After promising in September to quickly resolve a years-long land dispute involving villagers and the politically connected development company KDC International, a member of the National Assembly’s human rights commission visited affected families in Kampong Chhnang province yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/na-commission-member-visits-k-chhnang-kdc-site
Villagers in land dispute summoned to court
Seven ethnic Bunong villagers in a land dispute with a Vietnamese-owned rubber plantation in Mondolkiri province have been summoned by the provincial court for questioning after the company accused them of illegally occupying its land in Keo Seima district. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/villagers-in-land-dispute-summoned-to-court-76166/
Gov’t requests Chinese funding for rice warehouses
In a bid to stock 1.2 million tonnes of rice paddy, Cambodia has sent a draft memorandum of understanding to China asking the country for a $300 million loan to build more than 10 warehouses nationwide. The draft MoU was prepared by the Ministry of Economy ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-requests-chinese-funding-rice-warehouses
Stocking up for the low season
Three months after it began buying up rice stock, the Cambodia Rice Bank (CRB) has acquired about 20,000 tonnes of paddy and 7,000 tonnes of milled rice, a representative from the bank said on Friday. According to Phou Puy, chairman and CEO of the CRB, the ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/stocking-low-season
Kuoy, Phnong air grievances
Minority Kuoy and Phnong community members from Preah Vihear and Mondulkiri provinces are demanding that the government cancel economic land concessions granted to two Chinese companies and a Vietnamese firm for allegedly violating land laws. In a press conference yesterday in Phnom Penh, representatives from the ...
Phak Seangly and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kuoy-phnong-air-grievances
Lor Peang protesters demand commission chair step down
More than four months after first taking their complaint over a land dispute to the National Assembly’s human rights commission, 50 villagers from Kompong Chhnang province on Thursday protested in front of the assembly, calling for the commission’s head to resign for failing to resolve ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/lor-peang-protesters-demand-commission-chair-step-down-75704/
Injuries as locals clash with UDG
Three villagers suffered minor injuries yesterday after they clashed with security guards for a Chinese-owned company with which they are ensnared in a long-running land dispute. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/injuries-locals-clash-udg
Cambodia gov't seizes back economic land concession licenses from 23 companies last year
Cambodian Environment Minister Say Samal said Tuesday that the government had cancelled licenses of economic land concessions (ELCs) for 23 companies last year after the firms have failed to develop the land for years. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/150106/cambodia-govt-seizes-back-economic-land-concession-licenses-
Cambodia exports 387,100 tons of rice in 2014; up 2% from previous year
Cambodia has exported about 387,100 tons of rice in 2014, up about 2% from around 378,856 tons exported in 2013, according to local sources. About 62% of rice exports were destined to Europe, according to sources at the Ministry of Agriculture. ...
Oryza News Staff
http://oryza.com/cambodia-exports-387100-tons-rice-2014-2-previous-year
Prime minister admits 1 million tonne goal is unlikely for rice sector
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday admitted that the government target of reaching 1 million tonnes of rice exports by 2015 is likely to fail due to a lack of milling capacity and funding. The PM blamed the failure on a lack of investment in rice ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/prime-minister-admits-1-million-tonne-goal-unlikely-rice-sector
Evictees lobby bank for payment
More than 200 villagers from Kampong Speu protested in front of ANZ Royal Bank’s headquarters in Phnom Penh yesterday, demanding the bank pay them compensation. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/evictees-lobby-bank-payment
Cambodia to begin rice exports to various countries
Cambodia’s minister of commerce has announced that the country will step up efforts to export rice to Africa, Middle East and the European Union. In his three-day visit to Kuwait in December 2014, Chanthol aimed at opening new avenues for Cambodian-made agricultural goods to enter ...
Far Eastern Agriculture News Staff
http://www.fareasternagriculture.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4483:cambodia-to-start-rice-export-to-various-countries&catid=1083&Itemid=98
Cambodia launches No Pesticide Day campaign
A campaign for No Pesticide Day was held in eastern Cambodia’s Kratie province on Thursday with an appeal for relevant agencies to take part in the abolishment of the use of extremely dangerous pesticides. ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/141211/cambodia-launches-no-pesticide-day-campaign
European Union agrees to investigate Cambodian sugar industry
The European Union has agreed to investigate forced displacement claims in relation to Cambodia’s troubled sugar industry. The move could see thousands of villagers compensated for illegally confiscated land and loss of earnings. The Clean Sugar Campaign – which has been calling on the EU to ...
Kate Hodal
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/10/european-union-cambodia-sugar-industry-human-rights
Palm sugar exports see 138pct rise
Kampong Speu palm sugar exports with geographical indication (GI) status have increased in the past year, as international buyers begin to appreciate the Cambodia-specific product. Export volumes of the sugar reached 50 tonnes in 2014, according to Kampong Speu Palm Sugar Promotion Association’s (KSPSPA) president, Sam ...
Chan Muyhong
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/palm-sugar-exports-see-138pct-rise