Insight: Land conflict, impunity dims Cambodia’s awakening
- 12 November 2012
- Reuters
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
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Cambodia’s transformation from war-torn basket-case to one of Asia’s most promising emerging economies is being overshadowed by a backwards lurch in human rights and land policies that critics say are entrenching poverty. …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/12/us-cambodia-protests-idUSBRE8AB17J20121112
