Agro-industrial production
Economic land concessions and plantations
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/
The canes of wrath
- 10 May 2013
- Southeast Asia Globe
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Agro-Business / agro-business firms / American Sugar Refinery Company / assault / Boycott Blood Sugar campaign / child labor / child labour / compensation / CPP / CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat / criminal activity / Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Dr Pung Chhiv Kek / EBA / economic land concession / education / ELC / ELC scheme / EU / EU in Cambodia ambassador Jean-Francois Cautain / Europe / European Parliament / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / Everything But Arms Agreement / Everything But Arms scheme / Everything But Arms Treaty / Exports / farming / forced evictions / Human Rights / human rights violations / illegal possession of land / ILO / International Labor Organisation / International Labour Organisation / Jean-Francois Cautain / Jones Day / Jones Day law firm / Kampong Speu / Kampong Speu Province / Khon Kaen Sugar Industry Public Company Limited / KKP / KKS / KKS industry / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Koh Kong Sugar Industry / Koh Kong Sugar Plantation / KSL / labor / labour / land / Land grabs / Land rights / Land titles / Lawsuits / LICADHO / Licadho president Pung Chhiv Kek / livestock / London / Ly Yong Phat / National Human Rights Commission of Thailand / NGO Equitable Cambodia / NHRC / NHRC commissioner Dr Nirun Pitakwatchara / Nirun Pitakwatchara / Oddar Meanchey / Oddar Meanchey Province / OECD / Omlaing / Omlaing commune / Omlaing sugar plantation / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development / Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises / PC Law Firm / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / Phnom Penh Sugar director Seng Nhak / Phnom Penh Sugar’s Omlaing plantation / plantation workers / Plantations / preferential trade scheme / protests / Pung Chhiv Kek / razed crops / Rees Broome law firm / Seng Nhak / shootings / subsistence farming / sugar / sugar exports / sugar industry / sugarcane / sugarcane plantations / Taiwan / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle Sugars / Thailand / Thpong district / UK / UK’s High Court of Justice / UN / United Nations / United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights / US / US National Contact Point / Ve Wong Corporation / wages
Satiating the demands of the global sugar industry is big business for Cambodia’s sugarcane plantations. Yet accusations of human rights abuses and land grabs in the Kingdom have left a bitter aftertaste for many on the ground as companies vie for a larger slice of ...
Opposition Lawmakers Want ‘Social’ Land to Go to Farmers
- 10 May 2013
- Voice of America (VOA)
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Land / Public land lease / Rice
- agri-business / Agriculture & Agri-business / agriculture law / Casino / casino tariffs / ELCs / Farmers / Farmland / moratorium on Economic Land Concessions / moratorium on ELCs / National Assembly / rice / Sam Rainsy Party / Sam Rainsy Party lawmaker Yim Sovann / social land concessions / Vun Chheang
Cambodian lawmakers have passed a new law on agriculture, but critics say the law does not go far enough to protect the country’s farmers. The law passed on Thursday evening, but not before debate at the National Assembly. During the debate opposition representatives called on the ...
Private property, public greed in Cambodia
- 9 May 2013
- The Politico
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- American Sugar Refining / Cambodia Daily newspaper / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Cambodian Center for Human Rights president Ou Virak / CCHR / Chinese aid / Chum Bun Rong / Deputy Director Chum Bun Rong / Displacement / Disputed Land / Domino Sugar / ELCs / forced evictions / Khmer Rouge / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Provice / land compensation / Land Law 2001 / Land-grabbing / Laos / Myanmar / National Land Authority / New York / Ou Virak / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / sugar / sugar cane / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle sugar / Thailand / The State Department annual Human Rights Report / TTY rubber company / United Nations / United States aid / Vietnam War
Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ...
Kampong Thom Governor Vows to Give Land to Evictees
- 9 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber
- Adhoc provincial coordinator / economic land concession / ELC / evictee / Kampong Thom / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom provincial governor / Kraya commune / land eviction / Nhem Sarath / Rubber plantation / Santuk district / Tan Bien-Kompong Thom Rubber Development Company / Uth Sam On / Vietnamese rubber plantation
The newly appointed Kompong Thom provincial governor on Tuesday promised more than 500 families who were forcefully evicted by a Vietnamese rubber plantation more than three years ago that they would be given replacement land to farm on early next month. Security forces evicted villagers from ...
Firm Given Rights to All ELC Timber in Ratanakkiri
- 8 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 / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Trade
- Adhoch senior investigator for land rights and natural resources Pen Bonnar / Agricultural Minister Chan Sarun / Agriculture & Agri-business / Asean Heritage-listed forest / Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary / casinos / Chheng Kim Sun / conservation area / deforestation / ELC moratorium / ELCs / Export / Forestry Administration / Forestry Administration chief Chheng Kim Sun / Forestry Administration legislation and law enforcement department / illegal logging / Land rights / Lor Raksmey / mining / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Agriculture secretary-general Lor Raksmey / mondolkiri / Mondolkiri Province / Pav Horm Phan / Pen Bonnar / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Protected areas / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial governor Pav Horm Phan / Rubber plantation / timber trade / tree felling / Try Pheap Import Export / Virachey National Park
The Ministry of Agriculture has signed a deal with Try Pheap Import Export to give the firm the right to purchase all timber felled in economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, according to a letter sent from the Agriculture Ministry to the Forestry Administration ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-given-rights-to-all-elc-timber-in-ratanakkiri-22788/
Old Soldiers Won't Fade Away
- 7 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 / Rubber
- Adhoc / Adhoc Senior Investigator Chan Soveth / Chan Soveth / Commune Thma Da / conservation zone / economic land concession / ELC / Hun Sen Volunteer Youths / Khmer Rouge Soldiers / Khoy Sokha / MDS / MDS Concession / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / MDS Import-Export Co Ltd Owner Oknha Try Pheap / Protected Forest Zone / Pursat / Pursat Province / Pursat Provincial Governor Khoy Sokha / Royal Government / rubber / rubber company / social land concessions / Thai-Cambodia Border / Thailand / Veal Veng district
“I don’t know how to protect the territorial integrity [of the nearby Cambodian-Thai border] – even my three hectares of land I cannot protect,” said Bun Chanthorn, 54, one of hundreds of retired and active soldiers who since 2010 have been battling the local authorities ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050765451/National/old-soldiers-won-t-fade-away.html
Kids beaten over ELC
- 6 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Rubber
- Adhoc provincial co-ordinator / Andong Meas district / Andong Meas district police chief of staff Kim Channa / Chhay Thy / DM Group / Kim Channa / Kim Rasmei / land-titling program / Phen Dyna / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Provincial military police commander Kim Rasmei / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri rubber concessionaire / Ratankkiri deputy provincial police chief / Uk Nhea
Five men working for Ratanakkiri rubber concessionaire DM Group, including a soldier, have been arrested for allegedly beating a villager and his children – one of whom, doctors say, may not survive – in a scuffle over their family’s land, the father said yesterday. Police confirmed ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050665430/National/kids-beaten-over-elc.html
Village patrols seize land-clearing tools
- 6 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Protected areas / Public land lease
- Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Chim Savuth / Company 72 / CRCK / deforestation / Forest preservation community of Paknhai commune / Hoeun Sopheap / illegal logging / Jarai / Kampong Thom / Lam village chief Sev Flin / Lom village / Men Sarun Co / Men Sarun Co Ltd / O’Yadav district / Paknhai commune / Prey Lang / Prey Lang Community Network representative Hoeun Sopheap / Prey Lang Forest / Ratanakkiri / Sandan district / Vietnamese company
Jarai villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district escalated the defense of their protected land this weekend, confiscating the keys and batteries of bulldozers owned by the Vietnamese company they claim has been illegally clearing the area, community leaders said yesterday. The move comes after a number of ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050665426/National/village-patrols-seize-land-clearing-tools.html
Pushing the ELC envelope
- 3 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial co-ordinator Chhay Thy / Andong Meas / Beng Hong Socheat Khemaro / Chan Tong Yves / Doan Nguyen Duc / Eang Vuthy / ELCs / HAGL / Hoang Anh Andong Meas / Hoang Anh Andong Meas representative / Hoang Anh companies / Hoang Anh Daun Penh / Hoang Anh Lumphat / Hoang Anh Ouyadav / illegal logging / It Nody / Land Law / Lumphat / Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary / luxury timber / Matthew Rendall / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Land Management / NGO Equitable Cambodia / Nicolas Agostini / Oddar Meanchey / Ratanakkiri Province / Sciaroni & Associates / Seng Mony / Thailand / Virachey National Park
Three companies accused of illegal logging in Ratanakkiri province are in possession of a combined 30,000 hectares of economic land concessions (ELCs) that are likely illegal because they are owned by the same parent firm. Hoang Anh Andong Meas, Hoang Anh Lumphat and Hoang Anh Ouyadav ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050365405/National/pushing-the-elc-envelope.html
High Risk Seen in Kingdom’s Business Environment: Report
- 2 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- ADB / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Asian Development Bank Deputy Director Peter Brimble / Brittan / Cambodia Country Risk Report / Climate Change / Constrains to Investment / Economic Governance / economic land concession / Economic Land Concession Scheme / forced eviction / H&M / Indonesia / Investment Analysis / Investment Concern / investment law / Investment Risk / Investor Protection / Japanese aid / labor rights / labor standards / labour standards / Maplecroft / Myanmar / National Arbitration Centre / Peter Brimble / Philippines / Puma / Tate and Lyle / Thailand / trade facilitation / UK / United Kingdom
Corruption, a weak judicial system and the potential for complicity with human and labour rights abuses are key risks for firms looking to invest in Cambodia, a new report [by Maplecroft, a UK-based global risk and strategic consulting firm] analysing investment risk in the Kingdom ...
Report Says Quarter of Forests Have Been Cleared in 40 Years
- 2 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber
- Agence Kampuchea Presse / Burma / Cambodia / Chinese aid / deforestation / Ecosystems in the Greater Mekong Region / forest cover / Greater Mekong region / Hun Sen / illegal logging / Laos / Mekong region / Plantations / primary forest / Prime Minister Hun Sen / rubber plantations / Thailand / timber / World Wildlife Fund / WWF
Cambodia has lost almost a quarter of its forests in the past 40 years due to rapid development and China’s demand for timber, according to a new report released yesterday by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on the Greater Mekong Region. Looking at five countries in ...
Angry Villagers Confront Workers
- 1 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 / Environment and natural resources policy and administration / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / coffee plantation / Community leader Sev Hem / Company 72 / Dork Sar / Lom village / Men Sarun Co Ltd / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Forestry and Fisheries / O’Yadav district / O’Yadav District Governor Dork Sar / Paknhai commune / palm oil plantation / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Sev Hem / Ten Village / Vietnamese Company 72 / Vietnamese Rubber Company 72 / Yatung Commune / Yatung Commune Chief Ro-chorm Vin
Jarai minority villagers in Ratanakkiri’s O’Yadav district protested in two locations yesterday against a Vietnamese company that community leaders say has been clearing their protected land and forcing villagers to accept inadequate compensation. Community leader Sev Hem said 30 angry villagers directly confronted five Company 72 ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050165347/National/angry-villagers-confront-workers.html
Draft of New Public Land Policy Is Released
- 29 April 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 / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development
- Chhith Sam Ath / Council on Land Policy / Council on Land Policy adviser Duy Pheng / deforestation / Duy Pheng / forced evictions / land disputes / land laws / land management / Ministry of Land Management Secretary of State Rath Sarin / Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction / natural resources / NGO Forum / NGO Forum Executive Director Chhith Sam Ath / Phnom Penh / public land policy / Rath Sarin
The government on Friday released a draft of a new public policy guide on the county’s contentious land sector, a move that was welcomed by NGOs, who also called for the government to hold further consultations on the draft. Local rights groups have singled out ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/draft-of-new-public-land-policy-is-released-20672/
Forest Allegedly Cleared By Company
- 29 April 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 / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Protected areas / Protected forest / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Adhoc Provincial Coordinator Chhay Thy / Chhay Thy / Company 72 / deforestation / ethnic Jarai community / Forestry Administration / illegal logging / Jarai community / Jarai Community Chief Sev Hem / O’Yadav district / Phat Phoeun / protected forest / Provincial Forestry Administration Deputy Chief Phan Phoeun / Ratanakkiri provincial court / Rattanakiri / Rattanakiri province / Rochorm Vin / Sev Hem / Ten Village / Yatung Commune / Yatung Commune Chief Rochorm Vin
Local authorities and Ratanakkiri provincial forestry officials yesterday visited an area in O’Yadav district where community leaders say a Vietnamese company known as “Company 72” has razed an estimated 1,000 hectares of protected forest since 2011. “The villagers complained to the authorities many times, but ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013042965293/National/forest-allegedly-cleared-by-company.html
Scale of Wildlife Sanctuary Destruction Denied
- 26 April 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 / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Fib Rubber Co. Ltd. / Fib Rubber company / Forestry Administration / Hua Anh rubber company / illegal logging / Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary / luxury wood / Ratanakirri / Ratanakirri province / resin trees
A rights worker and forestry official yesterday contradicted a local newspaper report claiming that more than $100 million worth of timber had been illegally extracted from Ratanakirri province’s Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary. Adhoc’s provincial coordinator for Ratanakirri, Chhay Thy, denied having said a total of 16,000 ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scale-of-wildlife-sanctuary-destruction-denied-20366/
Rubber Firm Accused of Illegal Deforestation
- 26 April 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 / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development
- Adhoc / Cambodia’s 2001 Land Law / communal land / Company 72 / Day Dong Yoeun / Day Dong Yoeun Company / ELC / ethnic Jarai minority / indigenous people / indigenous peoples rights / Lom village / O’Ydaw district / Paknhai commune / Ratanakirri / Ratanakirri province / Rubber Companies
A rubber company that has been repeatedly accused of encroaching on communal land belonging to an ethnic minority in Ratanakkiri province has cleared 150 hectares of forest outside of its economic land concession (ELC) in the past month, according to the senior investigator for local ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-accused-of-illegal-deforestation-20367/
Incitement, Disinformation Suit Filed Against Rights Worker
- 25 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Deputy Head of Human Rights Monitoring Chan Soveth / Adhoc Provincial Coordinator Phuong Sothea / Chan Soveth / economic land concession / Ekpheap Village / ELC / Hun Sen / Land-tilling Scheme / Phuong Sothea / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Prom Ngoy / Pursat / Pursat City / Pursat Province / Pursat Provincial Court Prosecutor Tan Seihak Dechak / Sangkum Thmei Village / Tan Seihak Dechak / Thma Da Commune / Thma Da Commune Chief Prom Ngoy
A commune official in Pursat province’s Veal Veng district has filed a lawsuit accusing a human rights worker of incitement and disinformation after villagers the NGO staffer spoke to traveled to Phnom Penh to protest over a land dispute involving a well-known businessman Try Pheap. Pursat ...
Villagers Protest Eviction by Chinese Company
- 24 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Rubber
- Adhoc / Cambodia's Civil Code 2011 / Cambodia's Land Law 2001 / Chinese companies / Fib Rubber Co. Ltd. / O'Chum commune hall / O'Chum district / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber planations / social land concessions / Trang Churng village
More than 100 villagers living on a 20-hectare swath of a rubber plantation in Ratanakkirri province gathered outside O’Chum commune hall yesterday to protest their eviction at the hands of a Chinese company, local officials and rights activists said. About 120 families from Trang Churng Village ...
Luxury Wood Haul Found on Rubber Concession
- 23 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Judiciary and courts / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Rubber
- Andong Meas district / Deputy Provincial Forestry Administration Chief Phan Phoeun / Forestry Administration / Hoa Anh / Hoa Anh company / illegal logging / Lumphat district / luxury wood / O’Yadaw district / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri Provincial Court prosecutor Sous La / Rubber Companies / Vietnamese Company Hoa Anh
Authorities in Ratanakkiri province arrested and charged two men with illegal logging after discovering about 4,000 pieces of luxury wood on an economic land concession held by a Vietnamese rubber company, officials said. [Deputy Provincial Forestry Administration Chief Phan Phoeun] said that although the wood ...
Land-Titling Project Denied Minorities of Property Rights
- 23 April 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 / Social development
- Adhoc / Cambodian Land Law 2001 / Center for Study and Development in Agriculture / communal land titles / Community Legal Education Center / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers Press and Quick Reaction Unit / Directive 01 / ethnic Kreung minority / Hun Sen / indigenous minorities / indigenous peoples rights / La'ak commune / land-titling initiative / land-titling scheme / Ministry of Land Management / nationwide land-titling scheme / O'Chum district / Prime Minister Hun Sen / private land titles / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber plantations
Hundreds of indigenous minorities in Ratanakkiri province are being made worse off by Prime Minister Hun Sen’s land-titling scheme which, rather than securing their property rights, is contributing to the loss of their ancestral lands, according to a new report. The report supports complaints aired since ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/land-titling-project-denied-minorities-of-property-rights-19528/
Adhoc Investigator Under Investigation for Inciting Protest
- 22 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
- Adhoc / Agro-industry firm DM Group / Cambodian land law / Cambodian Land Law 2001 / Communal Forest / Company 72 / CPP Commune Chief Kith Chem / economic land concession / ethnic Jarai residents / ethnic minority groups / Lom village / O'Yadaw District Authorities / Paknhai commune / Provincial Governor Pao Ham Phan / Ratanakiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rattanakiri Provincial Court Prosecutor / rubber
Officials in Ratanakkiri province are investigating the provincial coordinator for rights group Adhoc for incitement after he helped villagers organize a demonstration, ultimately canceled, against a Vietnamese rubber company in O’Yadaw district. Mr. [Chhay] Thy, [Adhoc’s Provincial Investigator] said yesterday that he met with about ...
Tate & Lyle Defends Sugar Plantation Deal In Koh Kong
- 17 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar / Trade
- Cert ID report / High Court of Justice / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong / KSL Group / London / sugar plantations / Tate & Lyle / UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
A U.K. firm being sued by 200 Cambodian farmers over the loss of their land to two sugar plantations has defended its business dealings, claiming that the affected families were dealt with legally and were properly compensated for the loss of their properties. Local farmers ...
Koh Kong Sugar Firm Makes Offer to Return Disputed Land
- 15 April 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Sugar
- An Haya / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / CCHR president Ou Virak / Community Legal Education Center / economic land concession / ELC / Khon Kaen / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Plantation / Koh Kong Sugar / Koh Kong Sugar Industries Co. Ltd. / Koh Kong sugar plantations / Land dispute / land eviction / London / Tate & Lyle / Thai / Thailand / Thailand's National Human Rights Commission / Thanakorn Borintarachat / The NGO Forum / U.K.
The Thai owners of a pair of sugar plantations in Koh Kong province accused of forcing hundreds of farmers off their land will give the land back if it can be proved that those evicted legally own the land, rights workers and a village representative ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/koh-kong-sugar-firm-makes-offer-to-return-disputed-land-18770/