Category: Cambodia
Photo essay: Southeast Asia’s hardest year for dengue
More than a million cases were reported in Southeast Asia last year, with poorer households most at risk.
Cambodia economic miracle, but much remains to be done
Serious challenges to Cambodia’s economic growth and sustainability are endemic corruption, backward educational and healthcare systems, government inefficiency, rapid exploitation of natural resources.
Land Dispute Representatives From Six Provinces Petition Gov’t
The land dispute is also part of the EU’s investigation into the potential suspension of the ‘Everything But Arms’ trade preferences.
Large-scale logging halted in Kampong Speu, Pursat provinces
Police from Kampong Speu and Pursat provinces and officials from environmental non-profit Wildlife Alliance cracked down on illegal logging and wildlife poaching activities in the Phnom Oral Wildlife Sanctuary and the National Park in the Cardamom Mountains.
Cambodians struggle to get compensation for Dara Sakor megaproject
“A decade ago, my family lost our land, the [Chinese] company tore down my house and banned us from using our farmland. Now I live near my land awaiting a resolution.”
Cambodia looks to hydropower, but…
A number of Chinese companies have received approval from the Cambodian government to build hydropower dams across the Mekong.
Mekong basin’s vanishing fish signal tough times ahead in Cambodia
“Hydropower development through 2040 will eliminate migratory fish in large parts of the Mekong. No Mekong migratory fish species will be able to survive in the reservoirs of dams planned by 2020 and 2040.
Plantations Skirted Laws to Amass Land, Driving Locals Into Debt
Thousands of indigenous Kuy people in Preah Vihear province are losing their livelihoods as due to one Chinese company clearing 20,000 hectares of forests and locals’ farmland.