Cambodia

Oxfam accuse des grandes banques australiennes
- La Croix
- 29 April 2014
Elle accuse ces établissements de financer des sociétés impliquées dans des spoliations foncières, des exploitations forestières illégales et le travail des enfants.
Cambodian woman run over by harvester at ANZ-linked Phnom Penh Sugar development
- ABC
- 28 April 2014
One of Australia's big banks is facing scrutiny it financed a Cambodian sugar business responsible for forcing almost 500 families off their land.
Banks face land grab claims in developing world
- Sydney Morning Herald
- 28 April 2014
Australia’s major banks are funding large-scale illegal “land grabs” in the developing world and enabling illegal logging, child labour or other human rights abuses.
IFC investigates over ‘land-grabbing link’
- Phnom Penh Post
- 23 April 2014
The International Finance Corporation has launched an internal investigation into a complaint lodged against the institution for investing in a Vietnamese rubber firm accused of land grabbing.
HAGL eyes Cambodia agriculture expansion
- Phnom Penh Post
- 22 April 2014
Controversial Vietnamese rubber giant Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL) Group is to expand its agricultural business in Cambodia to include corn, according to the company’s CEO Nguyen Van Su.
State-backed land grabs affect half million Cambodians – rights group
- Reuters
- 01 April 2014
LICADHO documents half a million Cambodians evicted or at risk of eviction since 2000 because of government land seizures and policies to lease swathes of land to well-connected companies.
Accaparement des terres au Cambodge : l’UE face à ses responsabilités
- Novethic
- 18 Mar 2014
La question des conséquences sociales de l’accord « Tout sauf les armes » est désormais sur la table.
EU, government still at odds over sugar farm compensation
- Cambodia Daily
- 11 Mar 2014
The Cambodian government and the European Union remained at odds last week over how to compensate families that have lost land to the country’s controversial sugar plantations and seemed to move closer to agreement on the need for an outside party to mediate.
Chinese firm continues to clear Koh Kong land
- Cambodia Daily
- 11 Mar 2014
Union Development Group continues to bulldoze the land of Koh Kong province families. Villagers say the company is breaking with its concession agreement by planting cassava instead of building a luxury resort.
Asia's great land grab
- RFA
- 26 February 2014
Rising tension over land seizures is emerging as a critical issue in Asia. An RFA special report examines the changing dynamic of Asia’s Great Land Grab.
Kings of concessions
- Phnom Penh Post
- 25 February 2014
Vietnam and China lead the pack of foreign companies granted economic land concessions in Cambodia for agro-industrial development by a wide margin.
Sugar firm offers defense after call for probe of EU trade links
- Cambodia Daily
- 06 February 2014
The director of a CPP senator’s sugar plantation accused of stealing land from hundreds of Cambodian families said Wednesday that most locals were happy with the new jobs the plantation has generated.