Reuters
Most U.S. Firms Plan to Expand Business in SE Asia: Amcham
- 5 September 2011
- Reuters
- Economy and commerce / Labor
- AmCham / American Chamber of Commerce / ASEAN / Cambodia / Corruption / Indonesia / Infrastructure / Investment / laws and regulations / low-cost labor / Malaysian aid / Philippines / Singapore / Southeast Asia / Thailand / United States aid
Eighty-five percent of U.S. companies in Southeast Asia plan to expand their business as the region will become more important in the next two years, the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) in Singapore said on Monday. “ASEAN continues to grow in importance for businesses in the ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/05/us-firms-asia-idUSTRE78411L20110905
'Land Grabs' Mar Cambodia's Boom, Rattle Investors
- 1 September 2011
- Reuters
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Land / Sugar
- Alexandra Herbel / Cambodia / Cambodia Commerce Secretary of State / Cambodian Government / Charge d’Affaires / Chinese aid / donors / Duty-free exports / European Union aid / Everything But Arms / evictions / Exports / Farmers / foreign aid / foreign investment / French Cambodian Chamber of Commerce / garment manufacturing / International Donors / jobs / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong Province / Koh Kong Sugar Industry / Land grabs / Mao Thura / Phnom Penh / Rafael Dochao Moreno / rice / rights groups / rubber / sugar / Taiwan / Thailand / Vewong Corporation / weapons / World Bank
Phnom Penh–Kong Song’s farmland was his family’s livelihood for three decades until the bulldozers moved in and tore down his home in rural Cambodia to make way for a multimillion dollar foreign-led business. His family was one of 253 forcibly evicted five years ago in southern ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/09/01/cambodia-evictions-idUSL3E8JD2DV20110901
World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions
- 9 August 2011
- Reuters
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Multilateral development assistance / Phnom Penh / World Bank
- agricultural projects / Agriculture & Agri-business / aid / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Beijing / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak Lake Area / Cambodia / Cambodian tycoons / central government / Chinese aid / developer / development money / developments / documents / donor countries / eviction / evictions / Farmland / FDI / financing / firm / forced eviction / forced evictions / foreign aid / foreign direct investment / foreign firms / Government / Housing / human rights groups / Inner Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Investment Corp / Khmer Rouge / lake / land / land management / land ownership / legal documents / Lending / loan / loans / local government / metal processing / mining / Mining projects / on-site housing / Phnom Penh / Power Generation / prime real estate / Real estate / real estate developments / residents of Boeung Kak lake / Southeast Asia / urban areas / World Bank / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon
The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. “The World Bank’s last ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/cambodia-worldbank-idUSL3E7J920D20110809
