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Australian Police Say Appropriate Steps Taken in BHP Bribery Case

18 June 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Anti-corruption / Economy and commerce / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Government / Industrial mining / International relations / Minerals and mineral products / Mining
AFP / AFP spokesman Julie Hope / Australia Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade / Australian aid / Australian Embassy / Australian Embassy in Phnom Penh / Australian Federal Police / Australian mining companies / bauxite mines / BHP / BHP Biliton Vice President of Media relations Samantha Stevens / BHP Billiton / Bribery / Canberra / Chinese aid / Corruption / Freedom of Information laws / freedom of information request / Hun Sen / Lim Kean Hor / mines / mining / mining companies / mondolkiri / Mondolkiri Province / National Assembly / OECD / OECD report / Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / oz minerals / Prime Minister Hun Sen / The Sydney Morning Herald / United States aid / US / US Securities Exchange Commission / Water Resources Minister Lim Kean Hor

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said Monday they have taken the necessary steps to investigate claims that the world’s largest mining company, BHP Billiton, bribed officials in Cambodia and played down reports that it had mishandled one the country’s largest cases in corporate corruption. “The ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/australian-police-say-appropriate-steps-taken-in-bhp-bribery-case-31221/

Farmers Sue UK Sugar Firm For Millions

12 April 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Exports / Imports / Judiciary and courts / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Public land lease / Sugar / Trade
American Sugar / American Sugar Holdings / Community Legal Education Center / economic land concession / ELC / Jones Day / Khon Kaen Sugar / Koh Kong Province / Land rights / murder / Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / plantation / refineries / rice paddies / sugar cane / Tate & Lyle / Tate & Lyle PLC / Tate & Lyle Sugars / U.K’s High Court of Justice / U.S. National Contact Point / UK / Washington

Hundreds of Cambodian families are suing the British sugar firm Tate & Lyle in one of the U.K’s highest courts over a pair of plantations in Koh Kong province they accuse of violently forcing them off their land and out of their homes. The British law ...

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Senator Offers Cash Compensation to Evictees

CPP Senator and business tycoon Ly Yong Phat last week continued to offer families in Koh Kong province cash compensation to get them to drop out of a lawsuit against two sugar cane plantations he once owned, according to villagers. But villager Phann Khly yesterday ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com

Complaint to Be Filed in US Over Koh Kong Sugar Plantations

31 October 2012
The Cambodia Daily
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Public land lease / Sugar
American Sugar Refining / ASR / CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / EarthRights International / evictions / Farmland / forced evictions / foreign investment / Human Rights / Koh Kong Province / land disputes / Land rights / multinational companies / Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development / sugar / sugar plantations / U.S. National Contact Point / United States aid

Families in Koh Kong province will today file a complaint with the U.S. government against American Sugar Refining (ASR) over farmland they claim they were violently evicted from to make way for two sugar plantations that supply the New York-based company. The 207 Koh Kong ...

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/complaint-to-be-filed-in-us-over-koh-kong-sugar-plantations-4956/

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Australian Police Say Appropriate Steps Taken in BHP Bribery Case

Farmers Sue UK Sugar Firm For Millions

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Complaint to Be Filed in US Over Koh Kong Sugar Plantations

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