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Sugar Firm Offers Defense After Call for Probe of EU Trade Links [Cambodia]
The director of a…senator’s sugar plantation accused of stealing land from hundreds of families said…that most locals were happy with the new jobs the plantation has generated...Seng Nhak, the managing director of Senator Ly Yong Phat’s Phnom Penh Sugar plantation in Kompong Speu province, defended the company’s work after a visit to the area by E.U. Parliament member Patrice Tirolien…Mr. Nhak said he welcomed an “objective look” at the company’s work. But rather than an E.U. investigation, which local rights groups and the E.U. Parliament have called for, he preferred to keep any probe in the plantation’s hands…