Rimbunan Hijau Group
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Rimbunan Hijau tower built in 2014
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| Industry | Forestry, Plantations, Media, ICT, Hospitality |
| Headquarters |
2°15′52.6″N 111°50′38.1″E / 2.264611°N 111.843917°E Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia |
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Key people
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Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King |
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Number of employees
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10,000 |
| Website | RH group Malaysia homepage |
Rimbunan Hijau is a Malaysian multinational logging corporation controlled by Malaysian (ethnic Chinese) businessman Tiong Hiew King (aka Tan Sri Datuk Sir TIONG Hiew King)(丹斯里拿督張曉卿爵士). The company has operations in many countries, including Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Vanuatu, New Zealand and Russia.
In Papua New Guinea Rimbunan Hijau is the single biggest logging operator, and runs the country's biggest sawmill. It also owns one of the two major newspapers in the country; The National.
The company was established in 1975 and has an estimated annual turnover of more than 1 billion US dollars, according to Malaysia-China Business Council.
The group's core business activities are:
According to Greenpeace Rimbunan Hijau is the dominant player in the logging sector in Equatorial Guinea by the subsidiary Shimmer International. Rimbunan Hijau was in 1999 also logging contractor for Teodorin Obiang, the agriculture and forests minister of Equatorial Guinea and the son of president.
Rimbunan Hijau has been heavily criticized by environmental and humanitarian organizations for alleged human rights abuses, ignoring indigenous peoples Human rights, political corruption and negligence of the environment. A recent World Bank report estimates that up to 70 percent of logging in Papua New Guinea is illegal, further adding to the criticism.
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