Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has set up an interministerial panel to tackle the worsening problem of land grabs in the country, but NGOs say his own policies are fueling the crisis and need urgent revamp.
The National Human Rights Commission of Thailand on Wednesday corroborated claims that a Thai sugar company that supplied Coca-Cola has illegally taken land off of villagers in Oddar Meanchey province and violated their human rights.
An Giang Plant Protection Joint Stock Company says it plans to grow rice in Cambodia
Villagers from Kampong Chhnang were met with violence and arrests as they embarked on a march to the capital to seek a resolution to a land dispute with politically-connected KDC International.
The killing on 27th July 2014 of a teenage farmer by a soldier from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces is the latest tragedy emerging out of Cambodia’s land grabbing crisis.
About 100 villagers locked in a land dispute with an agriculture firm temporarily forced the company on Sunday to cease excavating the contested site in Kampot province.
In their latest bid to end a long-running land dispute with KDC International, residents of Kampong Chhnang province’s Lorpeang village yesterday cast a curse on the politically connected development company.
ANZ’s cutting of ties to Cambodian sugar company implicated in the use of child labour and causing food shortages after forcing hundreds of families off their land.
ANZ Bank cut its business ties to Phnom Penh Sugar without ensuring redress the grave harms caused to hundreds of families by the plantation that it financed.
This month, one of Britain’s biggest sugar producing companies resigned from a voluntary ethical sugar initiative it founded amid suggestions of illegal land-grabbing.
Across Cambodia developers are seizing valuable pieces of land, throw the existing community out, and after protests ebb away, building new developments on them: malls and apartments for the newly rich.
Sexual assault and the annihilation of sacred graveyards are among the many claims levelled at Vietnamese Rubber giant HAGL by villagers in Cambodia's Ratanakkiri province.
