Calls for Angkor Beer Boycott Over Dam

Khmer Times/Pav Suy

Members of civil society, a youth group and communities affected by the Don Sahong hydropower project have called for a boycott of Angkor Beer, claiming the brewer’s parent company Cambrew is funding the controversial project which started in December last year.

“If we drink a can of Angkor beer, we are destroying six million Cambodians living along the Mekong River. Please stop drinking Angkor Beer. Please join us in not consuming Angkor Beer for the lives of those six million people,” said Chum Hout, a representative of local NGO Youth for Social and Environmental Protection.

The 256-megawatt hydropower dam project is being built by Malaysian firm Mega First Corporation (MFCB), whose chairman is Goh Nan Kioh. Mr. Nan Kioh is also a major shareholder in Cambrew, according to Mr. Hout’s group. Cambrew’s Human Resource Department confirmed Mr. Nan Kioh is part of the company’s leadership.

“Goh Nan Kioh is a leader of Cambrew who is living in Malaysia and only comes to the company office occasionally. For more information about the hydropower dam, you need to wait and ask him yourself. A lot of media asked me about that,” a Cambrew HR representative told Khmer Times. Environmental analyst and consultant Heng Oudom said that since Angkor Beer derives profits from the Cambodian people, its administrators should respect Cambodian land and the country’s way of life.

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