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Report calls out Pheap
- 20 November 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Civil society / Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Industrial mining / Land / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Logging and timber / Mining / Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries / Protected areas / Protected forest / Public land lease / Social development
- Boeung Pe Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodian Human Rights Task Force / Choeung Sopheap / CHRTF / IHRLG / International Human Rights Law Group / Mao Mom / MDS Import Export Co Ltd / National Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization / NRWPO / Pheapimex Company / Ream National Park / Thorn Sarath / Virachey National Park
Logging tycoon Try Pheap’s rapidly expanding land empire, criticised by rights groups for displacing families and encroaching on protected forest areas, has grown to almost 70,000 hectares in size and is helping to facilitate a cross-border illegal logging operation, a report released today alleges. The Cambodian ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/report-calls-out-pheap
Mystery Surrounds Ratanakkiri’s First Special Economic Zone
- 17 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Human rights / Investment / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Social development / Special economic zones / Trade
- Adhoc / Andong Meas district / Asean Heritage Parks / casinos / Cassava / conservation areas / construction / Council for the Development of Cambodia / deforestation / ELCs / Environment and natural resources policy and administration / Environmental & Natural Resources / Environmental Protection / export processing zones / free trade areas / Hun Sen / illegal logging / industrial zones / Investment / Land concessions / logging / mining / Ministry of Agriculture / O’Yadaw district / O’Yadaw district governor Dak Sar / Paknhai commune / Pao Ham / Port / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Protected areas / protected forests / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri governor Pao Ham / Ratanakkiri Province / residential areas / roads / Rocham Hlech / rubber / service areas / Sesan river / SEZ / Special Economic Zone / timber / timber trade / tourist areas / Try Pheap company / Try Pheap Import Export / Virachey National Park
Construction of a special economic zone (SEZ) near the Vietnamese border in Ratanakkiri province’s eastern O’Yadaw district is on track, but who exactly will avail of the facility and its services remains a mystery—even for senior provincial officials. The latest announced venture of agro-industry land concession ...
Despite Land Loss, Minorities Back Status Quo
- 15 July 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Elections / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Government / Human rights / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Pepper / Public land lease / Rubber / Social development
- Adhoc / agro-industry / An Mady Group / ancestral land / Andong Meas district / Andong Meas district governor Nong Darith / Banlung / Bunlung Town / Cambodian Red Cross / Cambodia-Laos-Vietnam Development Triangle / cashew plantations / Cassava / cassava plantations / concessions / construction / CPP / CRC / Development Triangle agreement / Displacement / Economic Development / economic land concession / ELCs / ethnic minorities / Finance Minister Keat Chhon / Hoang Anh Gia Lai / Hun Sen / indigenous peoples land / indigenous peoples rights / Inh village / Institute of Developing Economies-Japanese External Trade Organization / Investment / Jarai / Jarai ethnic minority / Kachak ethnic minority / Keat Chhon / Keat Kolney / Kompong Cham / Kompong Cham Province / Kong Yu / Kong Yu village / land / Land policy and administration / land prices / Land rights / Land tenure and titling / Land-grabbing / latex / malaria / O’Yadaw district / pepper plantations / Plantations / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Road construction / roads / rubber / rubber plantations / schools / secondary forests / Talav commune / Trade / Try Pheap Import Export / UN / United Nations / Virachey National Park
Romam Gvin could be described as a counterintuitive voter. Intuition might lead you to believe that Mr. Gvin blames the government for the loss of his land to the Vietnamese rubber company that now owns everything for as far as the eye can see here in ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/elections/despite-land-loss-minorities-back-status-quo-34786/
SEZ adds to tycoon’s growing portfolio
- 12 June 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Special economic zones
- Adhoc / Bi Chivoandara / Casino / CDC / Chhay Thy / Concession / Council for the Development of Cambodia / deforestation / ELCs / ethnic minority / ethnic minority communities / Forest / forest land / Forestry Law / Global Witness / Hong Anh Gai Lai / illegal logging / Land-grabbing / natural resource licence / natural resources / O’Yadav district / Preah Vihear Province / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Pursat / Pursat Province / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial coordinator / reservoir / rights abuses / Royal Gazette / rubber / SEZ / Sok Chenda Sophea / Special Economic Zone / Stung Atay dam / Stung Treng Province / timber / Vietnamese rubber firm / Virachey National Park / yellow vine
Okhna Try Pheap’s ballooning empire of exclusive natural resource licences and concessions has been expanded even further with the granting of a special economic zone (SEZ) in Ratanakkiri province. The May 27 issue of the Royal Gazette reveals Pheap was granted a 136-hectare SEZ in O’Yadav ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013061266216/National/sez-adds-to-tycoon-s-growing-portfolio.html
Firm Given Rights to All ELC Timber in Ratanakkiri
- 8 May 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
- 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 / Land / Logging and timber / Public land lease / Trade
- Adhoch senior investigator for land rights and natural resources Pen Bonnar / Agricultural Minister Chan Sarun / Agriculture & Agri-business / Asean Heritage-listed forest / Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary / casinos / Chheng Kim Sun / conservation area / deforestation / ELC moratorium / ELCs / Export / Forestry Administration / Forestry Administration chief Chheng Kim Sun / Forestry Administration legislation and law enforcement department / illegal logging / Land rights / Lor Raksmey / mining / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Agriculture secretary-general Lor Raksmey / mondolkiri / Mondolkiri Province / Pav Horm Phan / Pen Bonnar / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Protected areas / Ratanakkiri / Ratanakkiri Province / Ratanakkiri provincial governor Pav Horm Phan / Rubber plantation / timber trade / tree felling / Try Pheap Import Export / Virachey National Park
The Ministry of Agriculture has signed a deal with Try Pheap Import Export to give the firm the right to purchase all timber felled in economic land concessions (ELCs) in Ratanakkiri province, according to a letter sent from the Agriculture Ministry to the Forestry Administration ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-given-rights-to-all-elc-timber-in-ratanakkiri-22788/
Pushing the ELC envelope
- 3 May 2013
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Law and judiciary / Logging and timber / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest / Public land lease
- Adhoc / Adhoc provincial co-ordinator Chhay Thy / Andong Meas / Beng Hong Socheat Khemaro / Chan Tong Yves / Doan Nguyen Duc / Eang Vuthy / ELCs / HAGL / Hoang Anh Andong Meas / Hoang Anh Andong Meas representative / Hoang Anh companies / Hoang Anh Daun Penh / Hoang Anh Lumphat / Hoang Anh Ouyadav / illegal logging / It Nody / Land Law / Lumphat / Lumphat Wildlife Sanctuary / luxury timber / Matthew Rendall / Ministry of Agriculture / Ministry of Land Management / NGO Equitable Cambodia / Nicolas Agostini / Oddar Meanchey / Ratanakkiri Province / Sciaroni & Associates / Seng Mony / Thailand / Virachey National Park
Three companies accused of illegal logging in Ratanakkiri province are in possession of a combined 30,000 hectares of economic land concessions (ELCs) that are likely illegal because they are owned by the same parent firm. Hoang Anh Andong Meas, Hoang Anh Lumphat and Hoang Anh Ouyadav ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013050365405/National/pushing-the-elc-envelope.html
Land Concessionaire Gives $130,000 to Officials
- 31 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economic land concessions and plantations / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / Land / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest / Rubber
- Ang Cheatlom / Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodia / CPP / Environment Ministry / NGOs / Ouk Kimsan / Ponlok Khmer / Rubber plantation / Seng Chheang / Try Pheap Import and Export / Virachey National Park / Vun Thoeun
Businessman Try Pheap, who in recent months received large-scale economic land concessions in Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary in Preah Vihear province, has donated $130,000 to the sanctuary’s environmental management and the local CPP office, officials said yesterday. Recipients of the funds denied that there was ...
Seized Wood Reported Stolen From R’kiri Park
- 2 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce
- Adhov / Casino / Chou Sopheak / Council of Ministers / Government officials / illegal logging / Keo Chanthan / Kra Nhoung wood / loggers / Lumber / luxury grade / Mine Developer / Pen Bonnar / Ratanakkiri Province / timber / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Virachey National Park / Wood
Seized and then sold wood has apparently been stolen from the Try PHeap Import Export Company which bought the lumber. The wood amounts to approximately 42 cubic meters and is priced at over $37,000. Blame for the theft is being cast everywhere including on the ...
