Category: Cambodia
Kingdom okays 2,400MW power purchase from Laos
Cambodia will buy exclusive power from two coal-fired power plants in Laos.
Mangrove forest to be planted
An ambitious campaign to plant 100,000 mangrove trees near Kampot province’s coast over nine months has been announced.
Tigers are doomed if efforts to save them remain wanting
Just two decades ago Cambodia still had one of the world’s highest tiger populations, according to some estimates. Yet within a decade almost all the big cats in the war-torn country lost out to habitat loss and poachers.
Cambodia’s Debt Trap: Taking Out New Loans to Pay Back Old Loans
Villagers in Kok Doung are among the 2.4 million people in Cambodia who have taken loans from microfinance companies. All told, the industry holds at least $8 billion in outstanding debt, the world’s highest average MFI loan.
Rearing of endangered fish Larvae in Cambodia
This is the third year that the Wonders of the Mekong Project, in collaboration with the Inland Fisheries Research and Development Institute, has collected endangered fish species such as Mekong giant catfish.