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Homes, Trees Destroyed, Villagers Say
- 31 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial coordinator / Che Chei / Corruption / destruction / Disputed Land / ELCs / evictions / Farm Land / forced evictions / human rights violations / illegal logging / land conflict / Land dispute / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / Oknha Try Pheap / Phoung Sothear / Prom Ngorn / Pursat / Pursat Province / rubber / rubber trees / social land concessions / Thai Border / Thailand / Thma Da Commune Chief / Veal Veng district / Veal Veng District Governor / villagers
About 50 police, soldiers and environmental officials yesterday demolished two houses and cut down thousands of trees belonging to families who are locked in a land dispute with MDS Import Export Co, owned by tycoon Try Pheap, villagers in Pursat province claimed. Fellow villager Khouch ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013053165987/National/homes-trees-destroyed-villagers-say.html
Firms’ Timber Trade Decried
- 28 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Exports / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Trade
- Adhoc / Beoung Per / Beoung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / CCHR / Chhim Savuth / CRCK / CRCK Company / deforestation / ELCs / ELCs Law / environmental impact / Exports / Forest / Hoeun Sopheap / illegal logging / Illegal poaching / illegal timber trade / Kampong Thom Province / Kampong Thom Provincial Governor / logging / luxury timber / natural resources / Oknha Try Pheap / Preah Vihear / Prey Lang / Prey Lang Community Representative / Prey Long Forest / protected area / protected forest / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Rovieng District / rubber / Rubber plantation / Sandan district / timber / Try Pheap Import and Export / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Uth Sam Orn / Vietnamese border / Vietnamese company / Vietnamese rubber company CRCK / water / WaterSHED / wildlife / Wildlife Sanctuary / Wood
Two firms holding concessions in rapidly disappearing northern forests are amassing stockpiles of tens of thousands of luxury logs cut both within and outside their leases and trucking them on to Vietnam, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights has alleged. CCHR investigators that tracked logging operations ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052865880/National/firms-timber-trade-decried.html