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Land Grabs Mar Cambodia’s Investment Boom

5 September 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Land
aid donors / Alexandra Herbel / EBA / EU / European Union aid / Everything But Arms initiative / evictions / Export / foreign aid / foreign investment / French Cambodian Chamber of Commerce / human rights groups / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong Sugar Industry Ltd / Land grabs / Loas / Mao Thura / produce / rice / RRafael Dochao Moreno / rubber / sugar / Trade / US / VVewong Corporation / World Bank

The evictions and so-called “land grabs” have angered aid donors, putting at stake hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign aid as well as a trade scheme that gives Cambodian produce tariff-free access to the EU. International donors and lenders such as the World Bank ...

'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

Planned Multimillion-Dollar Sugar Plantation Suspended

29 July 2011
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Sugar
Adhoc / Alexandra Herbel / Chan Soveth / CPP / Duty-Free / EU / Everything But Arms initiative / French Cambodian Chamber of Commerce / Groupe Sucres & Denrees / Hum Rights workers / Koh Kong Province / Ly Yong Phat / Mong Reththy / Mong Reththy Group / Stung Treng Province / Sucden / Sugar Plantation

Mong Reththy Group has suspended a $115 million sugar plantation project that has been three years in the works, CPP Senator Mong Reththy said yesterday. According to Mr Reththy, the suspension is due to “internal” issues facing the French partner in the project, Groupe Sucres ...

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