Companies from Japan, South Korea, Thailand and China are getting concessions to exploit plantations or build casinos. Farmers are thrown off their land thanks to legal loopholes with little compensation for their lost land and homes...According to the Cambodian League for the Promotion and the Defense of Human Rights (LICADHO), in 2006 alone, there were 116 such cases of forced expropriations in which companies responded to farmers’ protest with violence. [refers to Ko Kong Sugar]