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Democratic Voice of Vietnam

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Laos Land Grab: Deutsche Bank Backs Ruthless ‘Rubber Lords’
May 15, 2013 10:33 am By Martin Hesse, Jorg Schmitt and Wieland Wagner Vietnamese companies have been ruthlessly taking advantage of Laotian locals and their environment to create vast rubber plantations. The “rubber lords” are also getting support for the land grabs from Germany’s Deutsche Bank, which is violating its ethics and sustainability policies, critics say. …
Vietnam must ditch state-sponsored crony capitalism
May 15, 2013 8:03 pm By David Pilling For a country in its demographic sweetspot, the economy is not growing fast enough The country has just emerged from a scandal that exposed virulent corruption at the heart of the Communist party. There is a pressing need to reform state-owned enterprises – behemoths of inefficiency, patronage …
Vietnam firms (HAGL and Vietnam Rubber Group) involved in ‘illegal land grabs’
By Jonathan Head South East Asia correspondent, BBC News An environmental group has accused two Vietnamese rubber firms of involvement in massive land grabs in Cambodia and Laos. In its report, Global Witness said HAGL and Vietnam Rubber Group had been allocated over 280,000 hectares for rubber plantations in the countries. Residents had been evicted …