{"id":2892,"date":"2023-07-10T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T08:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kamnotra.io\/en\/?p=2892"},"modified":"2023-09-25T15:57:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T08:57:40","slug":"ly-yong-phats-family-receives-new-permit-for-sugar-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kamnotra.io\/en\/2023\/07\/ly-yong-phats-family-receives-new-permit-for-sugar-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ly Yong Phat\u2019s Family Receives New Permit for Sugar Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kampong Speu Sugar, run by the wife and son-in-law of ruling-party Senator Ly Yong Phat, received a new permit to open a factory in Aural district, according to the Royal Gazette.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a prakas signed by the Ministry of Industry on June 6, 2022, and released in the Royal Gazette in May this year, Kampong Speu Sugar, represented by Kim Heang, received a permit to open a factory producing sugar, fertilizer, ethanol and other alcohols in Aural district\u2019s Trapeang Chour commune.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Heang is the wife of Senator Ly Yong Phat. According to Commerce Ministry records, she directs Kampong Speu Sugar together with Seng Nhak, who is married to a daughter of Ly Yong Phat and Kim Heang, Ly Arporn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/knLandMap>\n\n\n\n

Ly Yong Phat, also known as the \u201cKing of Koh Kong<\/a>,\u201d is behind several of the country\u2019s sugar plantations, which have caused violent conflict with local residents<\/a> and sparked an international \u201cblood sugar<\/a>\u201d campaign. In Kampong Speu province, he is the chairman of Phnom Penh Sugar, a plantation adjacent to Kampong Speu Sugar and which together span 18,000 hectares of state concessions. Land rights NGO Equitable Cambodia has noted<\/a> that the two plantations were likely split in two to circumvent the state\u2019s 10,000-hectare limit for land concessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local residents have repeatedly protested<\/a> over claims that they have not been compensated for forced evictions. In 2020<\/a>, Australian bank ANZ agreed to pay out over 1,000 Cambodian families for a loan it gave to Phnom Penh Sugar that the bank says violated its human rights standards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim Heang has also received 30 hectares<\/a> of state land on Boeng Tamok<\/a>, one of Phnom Penh\u2019s last lakes. The land is being filled in for real estate developments, and land rights NGO Sahmakum Teang Tnaut says<\/a> around 300 families are being forced to leave their homes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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