• Displaced Cambodian families reach long-awaited settlement with Thai sugar giant
    • IDI
    • 25 June 2025

    Hundreds of Cambodian families took on Asia’s largest sugar producer, Mitr Phol—supplier to global brands such as Nestlé, Mars and Coca-Cola—and reached a financial settlement after seventeen years of sustained advocacy and, ultimately, bringing a class action against the company in Southeast Asia’s first-ever transboundary human rights litigation.

  • Why Chinese investors are racing to plant durians in Southeast Asia
    • Think China
    • 21 May 2025

    Lao Red Loong Durian is leasing 500 hectares of land in Vientiane province, Laos and has completed the development of a first-phase 60-hectare pilot zone, planting over 7,000 Black Thorn durian trees.

  • Thailand: Stop foreign land grabs
    • Bangkok Post
    • 14 Mar 2025

    The latest report on Chinese investors buying protected forest land to expand their durian plantations is worrying. This is more than just an illegal land grab, however. Soon, the whole durian supply chain will feel the impact. These blatant land grabs must be stopped with a sense of urgency.

  • Chinese firm accused of Chachoengsao land grab
    • Bangkok Post
    • 27 February 2025

    Thailand's Senate Natural Resources and Environment Committee is intensifying its investigation into a Chinese business illegally clearing over 600 rai of national forest land in Chachoengsao's Tha Takiab district to cultivate durian.

  • Philippines: MIC, Thai group to form $1-B investment fund
    • Inquirer
    • 11 February 2025

    The country’s sovereign wealth fund signed an MOU with the CP Group laying the groundwork for the establishment of of a $1 billion private equity fund that will target agriculture, food production, digital innovation and green energy.

  • Thai firm to invest US$1.5B for mega farm in PH
    • PNA
    • 01 August 2024

    President of the Philippines says CP Group committed an additional USD1.5 billion in investments to the country, starting with a 10,000-hectare modernized mega farm, during meeting at the presidential palace.

  • Cambodge : les communautés récupèrent leurs terres
    • CCFD-TS
    • 05 Mar 2024

    Dans la province de Koh Kong, au Cambodge, des communautés locales luttent depuis 2006 contre l’accaparement de leurs terres. Après un long combat, un accord historique avec l’entreprise Tate & Lyle a permis la restitution d’une partie des terres et l’obtention d’une compensation financière

  • Lao: AIDC, PTT Group partner in development of agroforestry coffee plantation
    • Vientiane Times
    • 11 January 2024

    The Petroleum Authority of Thailand, owner of the Café Amazon chain, expects the partnership will eventually establish a 48,000 hectare coffee plantation on the Bolaven Plateau, which will open up opportunities for the sale of carbon credits.

  • Marcos welcomes Thai firm’s interest to invest in PH agri-technologies
    • Manila Bulletin
    • 31 May 2023

    Charoen Pokphand Group requests government assistance in finding 400-hectares of suitable land for aquaculture (shrimp) and 300 hectares for swine and poultry, including eggs.

  • Agric Minister appeals to Thai investors to invest in Ghana’s rice sector
    • Business Ghana
    • 03 January 2023

    Minister said Ghana has 40,000 hectares of land readily available to support large scale rice production and encouraged delegates from the Thai company Jospong Group to take advantage of it.

  • Cambodian villagers challenge sugar giant in Thai court
    • JusticeInfo.net
    • 25 October 2022

    In 2014, over 700 Cambodian villagers filed a complaint with the Thai Human Rights Commission against Thai sugar giant Mitr Phol, accused of forced displacement, property destruction and land grabbing.The trial on the substance of the case is expected to start in April 2023, with a verdict at the end of next year.

  • US court orders Coca-Cola to turn over evidence in Thai human rights case
    • Business & Human Rights
    • 24 January 2022

    US court orders Coca-Cola Company to turn over evidence related to ongoing class action lawsuit against Mitr Phol in Thai courts over allegations of forced eviction

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