Deaths raise new questions on ANZ funding of Cambodian sugar projects

28 April 2014
The Sydney Morning Herald
Agricultural production / Economic land concessions and plantations / Labor / Labor policy and administration / Land / Safety and health at work / Social development
ANZ / International Environmental management Company / Ly Yong Phat / Phnom Penh Sugar

First Sum Tea lost her farm. Then she lost her son. Sum Tea is one of hundreds of farmers who lost her small landholding in 2006 when the Cambodian government granted Phnom Penh Sugar, a company owned by Cambodian tycoon and ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat, concessions to establish sugar plantations on 20,000 hectares in the impoverished Kampong Speu Province. …

 Daniel Quinlan, Richard Baker, Nick McKenzie
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