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China reaps concession windfalls
- 2 April 2012
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Human rights / Industrial mining / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Mining / Non-DAC members / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc head of land programme Ouch Leng / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Cambodian People’s Party lawmaker Cheam Yeap / CCHR / Cheam Yeap / Chinese companies / forest concessions / mining concessions / Ouch Leng
About half of the land concessions granted since 1994 are in the hands of Chinese companies, according to data released yesterday by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights. Ouch Leng, CCHR land reform project coordinator, said that from 1994 to 2012, the Cambodian government granted 4,615,745 ...
Forest on the auction block
- 9 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest / Siem Reap
- Adhoc / Adhoc head of land programme Ouch Leng / agricultural development / Agriculture & Agri-business / Anlong Veng / Anlong Veng District / businessmen / Chut Wutty / Chut Wutty director of the Natural Resource Protection Group / compensation / concessions / developing agriculture / Development / diverse species / environment / environmental impact / environmental impact assessments / Forest / forest areas / Government / Hun Sen / illegal loging / Illegal poaching / Kulen Promptep / Kulen Promptep Sanctuary / land / Land concessions / law / leases / logging / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Environment secretary of state Thuk Kreun Vutha / National Park / Natural Resource Protection Group / Natural Resource Protection Group director Chut Wutty / NGOs / Oddar Meanchey / Oddar Meanchey Province / Oddar Meanchey's Anlong Veng District / Ouch Leng / Ouch Leng head of the land programme at Adhoc / Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary / poaching / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / prime minister / Private Companies / private firms / reclassified / Siem Reap / Siem Reap Province / state / state private land / Thuk Kreun Vutha / Thuk Kreun Vutha secretary of state at the Ministry of Environment / token crops / villagers / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary
Almost 30,000 hectares of a wildlife sanctuary in Oddar Meanchey, Siem Reap and Preah Vihear provinces have been reclassified as state private land for agricultural development, drawing sharp criticism from rights groups. Four sub-decrees signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July 22 reclassify land ...
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