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Ethical Sugar Group Suspends Tate & Lyle Over Plantations
- 18 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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An international group that promotes the ethical sourcing of sugar for the food and energy industries has suspended the membership of U.K. sugar giant Tate & Lyle for failing to answer complaints that it was buying from Cambodian plantations accused of stealing land from local ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ethical-sugar-group-suspends-tate-lyle-over-plantations-35438/
UK Lawsuit Against Sugar Firm Heading to Trial
- 17 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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A lawsuit filed by families in Koh Kong province accusing U.K. sugar giant Tate & Lyle of wrongfully profiting off land stolen from them is heading to trial after efforts to mediate a settlement fell through earlier this month, according to those involved. Law firm Jones ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-lawsuit-against-sugar-firm-heading-to-trial-35233/
GI benefits yet to be fully realised
- 16 July 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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While Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar carry the brand-building Geographical Indication (GI) status, newcomers seeking the same tag continue to wait for funding to get their products off the ground. In 2010, Kampot pepper and Kampong Speu palm sugar were the first Cambodian goods ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gi-benefits-yet-be-fully-realised
Sales of palm sugar not so sweet
- 12 July 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Sales of Cambodia’s World Trade Organization-certified palm sugar from Kampong Speu province dipped to 12 tonnes at the end of the harvest season this year, about a 30 per cent decline from 2012. Two districts with palm trees in Kampong Speu province were granted geographical indication ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sales-palm-sugar-not-so-sweet
Group Considers Complaint Against Sugar Giant
- 26 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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A London-based sugar trade association aiming to promote a more ethical and sustainable industry will meet early next month to consider a request from Cambodian farmers that it eject U.K.-based sugar firm Tate & Lyle from the group unless it gives them back their land. Some ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/group-considers-complaint-against-sugar-giant-32001/
British Minister kicks off SE Asia tour in Cambodia
- 10 June 2013
- The Cambodia Herald
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Britain’s Minister of Trade and Investment Lord Green is starting his two week visit to Southeast Asia, to promote opportunities for British businesses, in Cambodia Monday, June 10, 2013. The promotion of British businesses is part of a larger effort to enhance the support available to ...
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=NjM3MDY2YzIyODJ
Sugar Firm Staff Protest Over Unpaid Wages
- 10 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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About 250 laborers working at a newly opened $90-million sugar factory complex in Kratie province-hailed by the government as a boon to Cambodia’s economy-staged a protest last Saturday morning demanding to be reimbursed for two weeks worth of unpaid wages. District governor Heng Soha acted ...
Authorities Deny Abuses at Thai Plantation Tied To CPP Senator
- 4 June 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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Oddar Meanchey province deputy governor Lon An yesterday confirmed CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat’s involvement in a trio of sugar cane plantations that rights groups took to the National Human rights Commission of Thailand last week, but denied their allegations of rights abuses. The deputy ...
Sugar firm under fire
- 3 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Asia’s largest sugar company has been accused of torching hundreds of homes, orchestrating the imprisonment of a pregnant activist and using security forces to beat villagers – among a raft of other grave human rights abuses – by communities in Oddar Meanchey province. The allegations levelled ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060366024/National/sugar-firm-under-fire.html
Vietnam invests in largest sugar project in Cambodia
- 27 May 2013
- VOV News
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- Bank for Investment and Development of Vietnam / BIDV / Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly / Electricity / energy / ethanol / ethanol and thermal power plants / fertilizers / foreign investment / Indian technologies / international fertilizer group / Japanese technologies / job creation / Kamdhenu Ventures Cambodia Limited / Kratie Province / Kratie province military operation / KVCL / Okrieng commune / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sombour district / sugar / sugarcane / sugarcane factory / thermal power / thermal power plant / Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung / Yim Chay Ly
The largest complex of sugarcane, ethanol and thermal power plants in Cambodia was inaugurated in Okrieng commune, Sombour district, Kratie province on May 26. Addressing the ceremony, Cambodia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yim Chay Ly emphasized that the complex inauguration in Kratie was the outcome of the ...
Trade Deal Threat Still On Table
- 20 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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The European union’s executive arm has responded to its parliamentarians’ concerns over rights abuses stemming from Cambodia’s economic land concessions, maintaining that, should the need arise, it “will be ready” to withdraw from its preferential trade agreements with the Kingdom. In a joint letter to concerned ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013052065716/National/trade-deal-threat-still-on-table.html
EU Won’t Investigate Land Concessions—for Now
- 20 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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The trade commissioner and foreign affairs representative of the European Union (E.U.) have turned down a request from 13 members of the European Parliament that they immediately investigate Cambodia’s much criticized economic land concessions, but said they were monitoring the issue closely. In a March letter ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eu-wont-investigate-land-concessions-for-now-25194/
Cambodia-Japan trade volume up 14% in 3 months
- 14 May 2013
- Xinhuanet News
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Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan had amounted to 180 million U.S. dollars in the first three months of this year, up 14 percent compared with the 158 million U.S. dollars at the same period last year, a report of the Japan External Trade ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/business/2013-05/14/c_132381154.htm
Cambodia Plantations Not IFC’s First Controversy
- 14 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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In the wake of a new report from environmental rights group Global Witness rebuking the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation (IFC) and Deutsche Bank for investing in rubber plantations accused of illegal logging and forced evictions, both institutions have denied responsibility and deflected the blame ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-plantations-not-ifcs-first-controversy-23793/
The canes of wrath
- 10 May 2013
- Southeast Asia Globe
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Satiating the demands of the global sugar industry is big business for Cambodia’s sugarcane plantations. Yet accusations of human rights abuses and land grabs in the Kingdom have left a bitter aftertaste for many on the ground as companies vie for a larger slice of ...
Private property, public greed in Cambodia
- 9 May 2013
- The Politico
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Mark Moorstein knew little about Cambodia before he got involved in a lawsuit on behalf of land owners there. But as it’s turning out, the suit could end up affecting most every country in Asia. Moorstein is a land-use lawyer in Northern Virginia who, like many ...
Sugar Firm Files Defense in Cambodian Lawsuit
- 6 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Exports / Judiciary and courts / Law and judiciary / Sugar / Trade
- CLEC / Community Legal Education Center / Disputed Land / ELCs / Equitable Cambodia / Exports / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / KSL company / London / sugar / sugar cane / sugar plantations / Tate & Lyle / Thailand / U.K.’s High Court of Justice / UK / United Nation Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
British sugar firm Tate & Lyle has denied knowing of the alleged abuses at two Cambodian plantations accused of illegally driving hundreds of families off their farms and says that the families have no right to ask the company for compensation, according to the firm’s ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/uk-sugar-firm-files-defense-in-cambodian-lawsuit-21913/
Malaysia’s Felda mulls local crops
- 29 March 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
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- ASEAN / ASEAN countries / Cambodian Center for Study and Development in Agriculture / crude rubber / Felda Global / Felda Global head of corporate communications Izan Hussain / Felda Global Ventures Holdings / Him Khortieth / Ismail Hassan / Izan Hussain / Malaysian aid / Malaysian embassy in Cambodia / Milled Rice / Palm Oil / rubber / rubber crops / Rubber Industry Smallholders’ Development Authority / Rubber plantation / sugar
Malaysia-based agricultural and commodities company Felda Global Ventures Holdings is considering investing in palm oil, sugar and rubber crops in Cambodia. Felda Global head of corporate communications Izan Hussain said yesterday the company had received numerous business proposals, but had not made any decisions. “Our discussions and ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013032964774/Business/malaysia-s-felda-mulls-local-crops.html
Sugar Playing Catch-Up With Spice
- 15 March 2013
- Independent European Daily Express
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Dotted with rice fields flanked by palm trees, Cambodia’s southeastern province of Kampong Speu is nothing short of picturesque. But behind the idyllic exterior is an on-going struggle to turn this region’s natural beauty into a global attraction and improve the lot of poor local farmers, ...
http://www.iede.co.uk/news/2013_1290/sugar-playing-catch-spice
Japan’s commerce with Cambodia up
- 8 February 2013
- Global Times
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Bilateral trade volume between Cambodia and Japan amounted to $641 million last year, up 25 percent compared with $512 million a year earlier, a report by the Japan External Trade Organization showed Thursday. On the investment side, Japanese firms have begun to focus their ...
Cambodian documentary makes Sundance Film Festival
- 30 November 2012
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Land / Social development
- A River Changes Course / Cambodian-American / Cassava / Chinese aid / cinematography / Debt / Documentation Center of Cambodia / Egypt / ethnic Jarai minority / filmmaker / films / forestland / Garment factories / Global Financial Crisis / Indian aid / industrial machinery / international and local community / Ireland / Jarai / Kalyanee Mam / Khmer / labour industry / Land rights / large-scale development / Plantations / Ratanakkiri Province / rubber / Russia / soy / sugar / Sundance Film Festival / Utah / World Cinema Documentary Competition
Until the arrival of large-scale development around her home in the northeastern province of Ratanakkiri, Sav Samourn, a member of the ethnic Jarai minority, was frightened of wild animals and ghosts. But as trees disappeared and industrial machinery razed the forestland, the old fears fell away. ...
Goods smuggled en masse from Cambodia to HCMC
- 19 November 2012
- Tuoitrenews
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Sugar / Trade
- An Suong bus Station / brandy / Chantria District / Cigarettes / Duc Hue Bridge / Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) / illicit goods / Long An Province / My Quy Dong District / smuggled goods / smuggling across borders Cambodia / sugar / Svay Rieng Province / Tan Bien District / Tay Ninh Province / Trader / Vam Co Dong River / Xa Mat border gate
Various smuggled goods, mainly cigarettes, brandy and sugar, are being brought from Cambodia to Vietnam’s Long An and Tay Ninh Provinces before being transported to HCMC for sale, a Tuoi Tre investigation has found. On November 9, Tuoi Tre reporters pretending to be traders went to ...
Senator's 2nd Sugar Refinery to Start Up Monday
- 15 November 2012
- The Cambodia Daily
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- Cambodian People’s Party / Employees / European Union aid / Exports / Koh Kong Province / Kompong Speu Province / Land titles / Oral distr / Plantations / Prime Minister Hun Sen / rights groups / Senator Ly Yong Phat / sugar / sugarcane / Thpong district / U.K. duty free / workers
Two years after breaking ground, a sugar refinery situated on a pair of controversial plantation belonging to CPP Senator Ly Yong Phat and his wife will have its first test run on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday. He said the refinery would be ...
Refined sugar for domestic market
- 7 November 2012
- The Phnom Penh Post
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- cane / domestic market / England / factory / Hong Kong / import / Malaysian aid / Ministry of Commerce / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh Sugar / Phnom Penh Sugar Company / sugar / Thailand
Phnom Penh Sugar will begin producing white sugar this month for the Cambodian market to reduce the demand for imported sugar, according to a spokeswoman for the firm. Chheang Kemsoun, a representative of Phnom Penh Sugar, told the Post yesterday the company would produce white sugar ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012110759620/Business/refined-sugar-for-domestic-market.html