• Daewoo's overseas agribusiness expansion
    • GRAIN, Tany, Yayasan Pusaka
    • 29 May 2018

    South Korea’s Daewoo is one of world’s largest transnational conglomerates and continues to expand a business empire that extends from manufacturing and trade to natural resources like oil and gas, minerals and food.

  • Madagascar: Rogue mayors, gangster politics
    • East African
    • 13 Mar 2018

    Madagascar, still chafing from a major broil in 2009 after Ravalomanana made a land deal with Daewoo, is set to have a presidential election in November.

  • Lettre ouverte à l'Ambassadeur de la République de Corée du Sud à Madagascar
    • TANY
    • 17 February 2018

    Suite à une intenstification des investissements coréens au Madagascar, le Collectif TANY pose la question si on doit s'attendre à une reprise du projet foncier de Daewoo Logistics

  • Cashew nut joint venture to invest USD100 million on processing plant
    • Khmer Times
    • 06 December 2017

    Malaysia's Camcashew Company and South Korean Naroo Marine Company will invest $100 million in a cashew nut export project in Kampong Cham province, including a 4,000 ha plantation and a 40,000 ha contract farming scheme.

  • Indoor farming expert says Korea, Japan need to up investment
    • Korea Herald
    • 26 November 2017

    Indoor horticulture farms are attracting an increasing level of investment. Combined with the advent of artificial intelligence, it's taking factory farming technology to new heights. South Korea and Japan to join the race.

  • Dongbu insurance arms to commit $40 mn to farmland/timberland fund
    • Korean Investors
    • 26 October 2017

    South Korea’s Dongbu Group will commit 45 billion won ($40 million) to a timberland and farmland fund managed by Boston-based Hancock Natural Resource Group..

  • Samsung won’t partner with Korindo following outrage over forest destruction in Indonesia
    • Mongabay
    • 14 September 2017

    Under fire from watchdogs and consumers of its smartphones, Samsung said it would not pursue a joint venture with Korindo amid an NGO campaign highlighting Korindo’s rainforest destruction for palm oil in Indonesia’s Tanah Papua region.

  • South Korea to build $10bln integrated agricultural city in Egypt
    • Arab Finance
    • 16 August 2017

    Egypt and the Korea-Arab Society (KAS) signed a cooperation protocol to build a $10 billion integrated agricultural city in the North African country. The city will be stretched over an area of 300,000 feddans (126,000 ha) in the southeast part of the Qattara Depression.

  • Daewoo dan Samsung dituding terlibat “menghabisi” hutan Papua
    • Tabloid Jubi
    • 16 August 2017

    Samsung dan Daewoo dituding terlibat dalam deforestasi di Papua bersama Korindo Group, dua perusahaan Korea Selatan ini telah mengurangi hutan primer di Papua untuk perkebunan kelapa sawit, menyalahgunakan hak dan mata pencaharian masyarakat lokal.

  • Samsung: get out of conflict palm oil!
    • SumOfUs
    • 15 August 2017

    Samsung subsidiary announced last week that it will be forming a joint venture with Korean-Indonesian agribusiness company, Korindo which was recently exposed for burning and clearing tens of thousands of hectares of Indonesia's rainforest for palm oil and timber production.

  • Meet the S. Korean companies destroying Indonesia’s virgin rainforest
    • Korea Expose
    • 11 August 2017

    Subsidiaries of prominent South Korea’s conglomerates including POSCO and Samsung, plus South Korean-owned Indonesian conglomerate Korindo Group, have been cutting down primary forest to make way for oil palm plantations.

  • Foodpolis sets up foreign investment zone
    • Korea Times
    • 08 August 2017

    South Korea government has designated part of the Korea National Food Cluster, or Foodpolis, as a foreign investment zone (FIZ), making it easier for the cluster to attract global food firms seeking to set up a base in Northeast Asia.

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