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Provincial authorities use weapons in Preah Vihear land dispute, nearly 30 residents detained
- CamboJa News
- 12 Mar 2024
At least 30 residents have been charged by provincial court in Cambodia for allegedly illegally occupying state land. The detention stems from an incident when authorities mounted a mass crackdown during a clash over a long-disputed land. The authorities said the land belonged to a rubber company called Seladamex, having received an economic land concession (ELC) from the state.
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
Indigenous kuy people block outsiders from clearing farmland in Preah Vihear
- Camboja News
- 17 January 2024
The site of the dispute is part of a 42,420 hectares economic land concession that was granted to the Chinese company Hengfu Group Sugar Industry in 2011.
The intractable problem of land grabbing in Cambodia
- Equal Times
- 11 December 2023
Local residents who were evicted from their land for a 42,000 hectare sugar cane plantation are all the more bitter now that the unprofitable and poorly financed agricultural project has collapsed.
Au Cambodge, l’insoluble problème de l’accaparement des terres
- Equal Times
- 11 December 2023
La concession économique de 42.000 hectares a été accordée en 2011, et pour une durée de 70 ans, à cinq entreprises chinoises appartenant toutes au même conglomérat, le Hengfu Group Sugar Industry. Douze ans plus tard, les souvenirs malheureux des évictions sont plus amers que jamais pour les habitants de Preah Vihear : pas rentable et mal financé, le projet agricole a périclité.
Video: Bitter Harvest
- Equitable Cambodia
- 07 December 2023
British sugar company Tate & Lyle enriched itself off the harvest of stolen land. More than 12,000 Cambodians have been forced off their land, leaving them to suffer through years of destitution.
Bolloré blacklisted over alleged rights violations on plantations in Africa and Asia
- Mongabay
- 29 September 2023
French logistics giant Bolloré SE has been deemed an unethical investment by some of Switzerland’s most powerful pension funds.
Years-long mediation leaves Bunong farmers indebted to multinational rubber firm
- CamboJa News
- 27 September 2023
More than a decade after subsidiaries of multinational rubber firm Socfin Group forcibly cleared and seized the farms, burial grounds and sacred forests of Bunong indigenous communities in Mondulkiri province, Cambodia, the company now seeks to collect tens of thousands of dollars from these farmers for the cost of “land preparation” and other fees.
Switzerland's largest public pension funds blacklist Bolloré
- Gotham City
- 12 September 2023
The Swiss association of the largest public pension funds, has decided to exclude shares in the French group Bolloré SE. The exclusion is justified by “potential human rights violations in Liberia, Cambodia and Sierra Leone”.
En Suisse, les grands fonds de pensions publics placent Bolloré sur liste noire
- Gotham City
- 12 September 2023
L'association suisse des plus grandes caisses publiques de retraite a décidé d'exclure les actions du groupe français Bolloré SE "à la suite de violations potentielles des droits humains en Libéria, Cambodge et Sierra Leone".
Koh Kong land activists sentenced to a year in prison for incitement
- CamboJa News
- 17 August 2023
Koh Kong provincial court in Cambodia convicted ten land activists on Tuesday of incitement to commit serious social disorder and malicious denunciation and sentenced them to one year in prison plus a total fine of 40 million riels to be paid to the plaintiff, tycoon Heng Huy.
China firm plans ‘$12B’ smart-agri investment
- Phnom Penh Post
- 15 August 2023
A Chinese agricultural company has announced plans to invest “$12.7 billion” in the agriculture sector on 750,000 ha of land in four provinces in Cambodia along the Tonle Sap Lake: Battambang, Pursat, Siem Reap and Kampong Thom.