Social development
Banong Families Receive Communal Land Titles
- 27 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Land / Social development
- 2001 Land Law / ancestral land / Banong / Banong communities / Banong minorities / communal land titles / ethnic minorities / Hun Sen / Im Chhun Lim / indigenous peiople / Keo Seima district / Ktum Village / Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim / land tiles / Minister of Land Management / Moldolkirri province / nationwide land titling program / NGO Community Legal Education Center / O'Rona village / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sre Khtum commune / Sre Lvy Village
More than 70 ethnic minority Banong families from two separate villages in Moldolkirri province’s Keo Seima district received communal titles to a combined 1,031 hectares of ancestral land from the Land Management Minister Im Chhun Lim on Saturday. Communal land titles were established under the 2001 ...
Cambodian greens see red in upcoming dams
- 26 May 2013
- The Gulf Times
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Land / Logging and timber / Renewable energy production / Rivers and lakes / Social development / The poor / Water resources
- 3S Basin / 3S Rivers Protection Network / 3S Rivers Protection Network co-ordinator Meach Mean / Ame Trandem / animal protein / animal protein consumption / biodiversity / Cambodian Government / Chinese aid / Chinese hydropower companies / Dams / Electricity / energy / Feasibility studies / fish highways / fish productivity / fish stocks / fisheries / food security / Forests / freshwater fishery / hydropower / Indigenous Communities / indigenous people / International Rivers / Laos / livestock / livestock sector / Lower Se San 2 Dam / Lower Sesan 2 dam / Meach Mean / Mekong river / Minister of Industry Mines and Energy Suy Sem / Ministry of Industry Mines and Energy / Myanmar / national election / PNAS / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / River Mekong Basin / Se Kong River / Se San River / sediment transportation / Sekong river / Sesan river / Sre Pok River / Srepok River / tributaries / WorldFish Center
For Meach Mean, a veteran campaigner against hydropower dams in Cambodia’s northeast, this year has brought a double dose of bad news. First, he says, two Chinese hydropower companies have begun feasibility studies into a pair of dams planned for tributaries of the Mekong River ...
http://www.gulf-times.com/environment/231/details/353963/cambodian-greens-see-red-in-upcoming-dams
Cambodia: A rising star with a falling reputation?
- 24 May 2013
- Just-Style
- Development policy and administration / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Social development / Trade
- American Government / Aon Hewitt's People Risk Index 2013 / apparel workers / Better Factories Cambodia / British Embassy / Burma / Cambodian garment industry / Cambodian Government / CDC / Chinese aid / Company turnover / Contracts / Corporate responsibility / corporate social responsibility / Corruption / Council for the Development of Cambodia / CSR-sensitive brands / Electricity / electricity prices / energy / environment / EU / European Union aid / Exports / Factories / Factory collapse / Faintings / Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry / foreign investment / French Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia / French companies / Garment exports / Garment factories / Garment Industry Productivity Centre / garment manufacturers / Garment Manufacturers Association of Cambodia / garments / GMAC / Hong Kong / illegal strikes / ILO / Indian textile suppliers / Infrastructure / International Labor Organization / International Labor Organization's Better Factories Cambodia / job security / Ken Loo / Korea / labor / labor law / labor turnover / labour / Malaysian aid / manufacturers / mass faintings / minimum wage / minimum wage increase / Monitoring in the Dark Report / Myanmar / Phnom Penh / retailers / SHRM&P / Singapore / Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic / Taiwan / temporary contracts / textile manufacturers / textile suppliers / textile supply chain / Textiles / UK Trade and Investment office / USAID / wages / Worker Rights Consortium / workers / workers rights
Cambodia’s reputation as a standard-bearer for apparel workers’ rights is wearing thin – and yet the country is a rising star when it comes to attracting foreign investment and increasing exports. There are many reasons to deter brands and retailers from sourcing clothing in Cambodia. The Kingdom ...
http://www.just-style.com/analysis/a-rising-star-with-a-falling-reputation_id117944.aspx
NGOs Assessing Development Goals for Coming Years
- 24 May 2013
- VOA Khmer
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Education and training / Education policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Human rights / Social development
- Agricultural markets / Agriculture & Agri-business / Battambang / Battambang Province / Cambodian development / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia representative Sam Ly / Development / development goals / Economic growth / education / extractive industries / farming / government accountability / Human Rights / judicial system / Kampong Cham / Kampong Cham Province / natural resource extraction / natural resources / NGO Forum / NGO Forum deputy director Tek Vannara / Phnom Penh / Sam Ly / Sam Rainsy Party / social inclusion / Tek Vannara / transparency / UN / UN Millennium Development Goals / United Nations
As Cambodia assesses its development goals, a study has found that many Cambodians want to see an improved judicial system, better education, improved agriculture and more human rights. A broad consortium of local and international development agencies spent the early part of the year conducting conferences ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/ngo-assessing-development-goals-for-coming-years/1667239.html
Regional pharma producers eye Kingdom
- 24 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Imports / Investment / Pharmaceuticals / Public health / Social development / Trade
- ASEAN / Bayer / Benoit Martineau / Business Monitor International / Celina Chew / Chinese Market / Eurocham / Eurocham’s pharma working group / food and drugs agencies / foreign investment / generic drugs / German / Indofarma / Indonesia / International pharmaceutical companies / Jakarta Globe / Jakarta Post / Kalbe Farma / Khalid Baig / Laos Operations / Malaysian aid / medicine distributors / pharmaceutical industry / pharmaceutical market / pharmaceuticals / Sanofi Group / Southeast Asia / Thailand / Vidjongtius
International pharmaceutical companies are increasingly looking to sell their products to Cambodia, although the market is full of obstacles, according to experts. After several big international players announced sales expansion plans, two companies from Indonesia, a major manufacturing hub in Southeast Asia, are planning to follow. Kalbe ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052465819/Business/regional-pharma-producers-eye-kingdom.html
Subedi Protest Linked to CPP-Aligned Youth Group
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Education and training / Higher education / Human rights / Social development
- Cambodia Mekong University / CMU / CMU university students / CPP / Human Rights / Hun Many / Hun Sen / Kompong Speu / Kompong Speu Province / nationwide land titling program / Phnom Penh / politics / Prime Minister Hun Sen / protests / Royal University of Law and Economics / RULE / student volunteers / Surya Subedi / UN / UN Human Rights Envoy Surya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur Suya Subedi / Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia / United Nations / United Nations Special Rapporteur to Cambodia / United Nations Special Rapporteur to Cambodia Surya Subedi / university students / UYFC
Despite the apparent spontaneity of a protest against U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi at a university in Phnom Penh on Tuesday night, it emerged Wednesday that one of the apparent leaders of the demonstration is associated with a youth organization aligned with the ruling ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/subedi-protest-linked-to-cpp-aligned-youth-group-26156/
Subedi Urges Passage of Laws on Judiciary
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Constitution and rights / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Law and judiciary / Social development
- Cambodia's constitution / Cambodia’s judiciary / Cambodian Defenders Project / Constitution of Cambodia 1993 / Council of Ministers / judiciary / Law on the Status of Judges and Prosecutors / Ministry of Justice / Ministry of Justice Secretary of State Prom Sidhra / Prom Sidhra / Sok Sam Oeun / Surya Subedi / UN Human Rights Council / UN Human Rights Envoy Surya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur Suya Subedi / UN Special Rapporteur to Cambodia / UN Special Rapporteur to Cambodia Suya Subedi / United Nations
U.N. human rights envoy Surya Subedi met with a senior official at the Ministry of Justice on Wednesday and reiterated a call for new legislation to be passed on governing Cambodia’s judiciary. “He did not ask us much on anything new, but he did ask for ...
Judge Denies Coercion Claim in Land Dispute Assault Case
- 24 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- Adhoc / assault / Cambodian Defenders Project / Coercion / compensation / Corruption / crime / Disputed Land / DM Group / Ethnic Minority Tampoun community in LumPhat District / Human Rights / human rights violations / Judge Champnap / Judge Eng Champnap / judiciary / Lieutenant Sin Vanny / Lumphat district / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri Provincial Judge Champnap / Ratanakkiri Provincial Judge Eng Champnap / RCAF / RCAF Second Lieutenant Sin Vanny / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces / Royal Cambodian Armed Forces Second Lieutenant Sin Vanny / rubber / rubber company / Rubber plantation / Second Lieutenant Sin Vanny / Sin Vanny / Sok Sam Oeun / Sok Sam Oeun executive director of Cambodia Defenders Project / soldiers / Supreme Council of Magistracy
A father whose three children were badly beaten by employees of a rubber plantation has accused a Ratanakkiri Provincial Court judge of threatening to send two sons, aged 14 and 21, to jail unless they accept $1,000 in compensation and drop the assault complaint. Ry Saron ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/judge-denies-coercion-claim-in-assault-case-26546/
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 ...
Abused women’s support services to expand
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Civil society / Gender / Human rights / Judiciary and courts / Siem Reap / Social development / Women in development
- abuse / Banks / Cambodia Women’s Crisis Center / career training / civil society / court / domestic violence / economic options / employment opportunities / Healthcare / Ing Kantha Phavi / Minister of Women's Affairs / Pok Panha Vichet / rape / sexual abuse / Siem Reap / UN Women gender-based violence / violence / violence against women / World Health Organization
Helping women find better employment opportunities is key to ensuring they feel able to report rape and sexual abuse, government and civil society representatives said yesterday. Although Cambodian courts are prosecuting an increasing number of cases involving violence against women, economic concerns stop many from reporting ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265772/National/abused-women-s-support-services-to-expand.html
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/
Trafficked numbers rising
- 22 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Human rights / Human trafficking / Informal migration for labor / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Local workers abroad / Marine and coastal areas / Offshore recruitment and employment / Siem Reap / Social development / Water resources
- abused workers / Africa / African coast / anti-trafficking / Anti-trafficking NGOs / Anti-Trafficking project / Argentina / Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies / Bosnia-Herzegovina / child labor / child labour / CLEC / Community Legal Education Centre / Environmental Justice Foundation / exploitative employment sectors / Fishermen / Fishing / fishing boat / forced labor / forced labour / Giant Ocean / Giant Ocean International Fishery / grievance mechanism / Hong Kong / Human trafficking / Indonesia / International Labour Organization’s Maritime Labour Convention / International Organization for Migration / IOM / Juliette Williams / Legal Support for Children and Women / Lin Yu Shin / LSCW / Malaysian aid / Mauritius / Ministry of Labour / MLC / Mom Sokchar / Phiev Khay / Philippines / recruitment agency / repatriation / SehaYatim / Shelley Thio / Siem Reap / Singapore / Singapore market / Singapore Ministry of Manpower / Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority / Step Up Marine Enterprise / Taiwan / Thailand / trafficking / trafficking complaint / Transient Workers Count Too / TWC2 / Victor Lim / Work in Fishing Convention
Their stories have become all too familiar – Cambodian fishermen enslaved on fishing boats after being promised lucrative jobs overseas. They’re also becoming increasingly common. Anti-trafficking NGOs told the Post this week that they have noticed an exponential increase in the number of trafficking complaints from ...
Danson Cheong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052265773/National/trafficked-numbers-rising.html
As Foreign Aid Increases, Questions About Conditions
- 21 May 2013
- VOA Khmer
- Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Japanese aid / Multilateral development assistance / Non-DAC members / Public health / Roads and bridges / Social development / Transport and shipping / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- ADB / Agriculture & Agri-business / Agriculture aid / aid / Aid Dependence in Cambodia / aid packages / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Australian aid / Cambodia National Rescue Party / Cambodia National Rescue Party spokesman Yim Sovann / CDC / Chinese aid / Chinese aid / Chou Heng / construction / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia / Cooperation Committee for Cambodia executive director Soeung Saroeun / Corruption / Council for the Development of Cambodia / Council for the Development of Cambodia senior policy expert Chou Heng / donors / Ear Sophal / foreign aid / foreign loans / government expenditures / government revenue / health sector / information / Infrastructure / Infrastructure aid / interest rates / International Aid / international aid patterns / Japanese aid / loans / poverty reduction / Road construction / Soeung Saroeun / tax collection / tax revenue / Taxes / technical assistance / Tourism / transparency / UN / United Nations / urban planning / US / Yim Sovann
Cambodia has seen huge growth of foreign aid and loans over the past two decades, but experts are beginning to question its worth—and what conditions might be attached. Total aid from 1993 to 2012 amounts to around $10 billion, with the percentage of aid coming as ...
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/as-foreign-aid-increases-questions-about-conditions/1664821.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/
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
- 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/
Court takes another crack at Bandith case
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Gender / Unions / Women in development
- Ath Thorn / Bavet / Bavet factory shooting incident / Bavet shooting / Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith / Cambodia Defenders Project / Cambodian Confederation of Unions / Cambodian Labour Confederation / Chhouk Bandith / CLC president Ath Thorn / court / Court of Appeal / Garment Factory / garment workers / impunity / Sok Sam Oeun / Svay Rieng Province / unintentional injury / Worker unions / workers
Unions representing more than 15,000 members have called for justice for three women ahead of round two of legal action against their alleged shooter, deposed Bavet town governor Chhouk Bandith. Bandith, who is accused of shooting the three workers during a protest at a factory in ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065718/National/court-takes-another-crack-at-bandith-case.html
Malaysian couple jailed for starving maid to death
- 17 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Gender / Judiciary and courts / Law and judiciary / Marine and coastal areas / Water resources / Women in development
- AFP / Agence France Press / Cambodian domestic workers / Cambodian maids / domestic worker abuse / domestic workers / government moratorium / Human Rights / maids / Malaysian aid / Malaysian court / Malaysian employers / Malaysian justice system / Minister of Women’s Affairs Mu Sochua / Ministry of Labor / Ministry of labor deputy director general Hou Vudthy / Ministry of Women's Affairs / moratorium on sending workers to Malaysia / Penag / working conditions
A Malaysian Court yesterday sentenced a couple to 24 years in jail for culpable homicide after their Cambodian maid starved to death while working for them in their home on the northwest coast of Penag, Agence France Press (AFP) reported. Cambodian opposition lawmaker and former ...
Jarai Man Exiled After He Opposes Land Deal
- 17 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial co-ordinator / Chhay Thy / community forest / Disputed Land / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai minority / ethnic Jarai villagers / ethnic minorities / Forest / indigenous people / O’Yadav district / Ratanakiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rocham Vin / Romas Svang / Ten Village / villagers / Ya Tung Commune / Ya Tung Commune Chief
Commune authorities in Ratanakkiri province’s O’Yadav district have allegedly banished a local resident for persisting with a lawsuit that accuses them of selling 500 hectares of community forest to two Cambodian developers for $300,000. Romas Svang, who is a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, filed ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051765682/National/jarai-man-exiled-after-he-opposes-land-deal.html
Think Tank Says Cambodia Isn't Managing Its Resources
- 16 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Energy / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Generation and distribution facilities / Industrial mining / Mining / Non-renewable energy production / Off-shore oil and gas exploration and extraction / Oil and gas resources / Social development
- 2013 Resource Governance Index / Cambodians for Revenue Resource Transparency / Chevron Corp / Corruption / exploration blocks / exploration licenses / extraction licences / extractive industries / Gulf of Thailand / Hydrocarbons / mining / mining exploration licenses / mining extraction licences / mining licences / New York / oil / oil extraction / oil revenue / Revenue Watch / Revenue Watch Institute / Revenue Watch Institute 2013 Resource Governance Index / transparency
With the potential for vast state revenues from oil extraction and mining in coming years, Cambodia is currently failing to manage its nascent extractive industries according to a think tank. New York-based Revenue Watch Institute yesterday launched its 2013 Resource Governance Index, which included Cambodia for ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/think-tank-says-cambodia-isnt-managing-its-resources-24530/
Two Held For Razing Huts In Land Dispute
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Cassava / cassava plantation / CRC Company / CRD Chief of Staff Ngvieng Hong Fou / CRD company / CRD rubber company / Deputy District Police Chief Phan Chanthon / destruction / Disputed Land / evictions / forced eviction / Global Witness / HAGL / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) / Hoang Anh Ratanakkiri / land disputes / luxury timber / Meas Pov Bora / Ngvieng Hong Fou / O'Chum district / Phan Chanthon / Plantation Destructions / Provincial Minor Crimes Office / Provincial Minor Crimes Office Chief / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Rubber plantation / rubber trees / timber / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Firm Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Vietnamese rubber company / Vietnamese Rubber Group / villagers / Watchdog Group
Ratanakkiri provincial police on Monday arrested the chief of staff of a Vietnamese rubber concessionaire and his Cambodian translator who are believed to have burned down more than $5,000 worth of property related to a land dispute in O’Chum district, police said. Meas Pov Bora, chief ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565632/National/two-held-for-razing-huts-in-land-dispute.html
Arrests Threatened In Ratanakkiri
- 15 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crime and law enforcement / Economic land concessions and plantations / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc Senior Investigator Chan Saveth / Company 72 / deforestation / ELCs / ethnic Jarai / ethnic Jarai villagers / ethnic minorities / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / Forest / forest clearing / Forestry Administration / Land rights / Lom village’s Forestry Protection Committee Leader / Lom Villagers / Men Sarun Co Ltd / O’Yadav district / O’Yadav District Governor Dork Sar / Paknhai commune / protected area / protected forest / protests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Sav Finh / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese Company 72 / villagers
Provincial authorities in Ratanakkiri have warned ethnic Jarai villagers that they will be arrested if they continue to stop bulldozers belonging to a Vietnamese company from clearing forest in O’Yadav district’s Paknhai commune, community leaders said yesterday. Sav Finh, leader of Lom village’s forestry protection committee, ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013051565625/National/arrests-threatened-in-ratanakkiri.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 ...
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 ...