Covering 360 square kilometers of the heavily forested Botum Sakor National Park, Dara Sakor was conceived as a tourism hub in 2008.
Category: Cambodia
‘Cambodia Is Not a Dustbin.’ More Plastic Waste to Be Sent Back to the U.S. and Canada
Cambodia announced that it will send 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste back to the U.S. and Canada.
Illegal logging poised to wipe Cambodian wildlife sanctuary off the map
Beng Per Wildlife Sanctuary has lost more than 60 percent of its forest cover since it was established in 1993, with most of the loss occurring since 2010.
Court summons four more suspects over Mondulkiri logging
Mondulkiri provincial Military Police are hunting four more people on court orders after tycoon Soeng Sam Ol and three alleged accomplices were placed in pre-trial detention on illegal logging charges.
Cambodia is urbanising fast with China’s help but the gulf between rich and poor is widening
Cambodia is urbanising fast with China’s help but the gulf between rich and poor is widening
Thousands in Sihanoukville clean-up
Some 5,000 people participated in a clean-up campaign in Sihanoukville on Saturday, organised by the new provincial governor, as the amount of waste produced by the city has now reached up to 800 tonnes per day.
Hun Sen aims to ban imports of non-recyclable waste
Cambodia could soon become the next Asian country to reject the importation of rubbish from oerseas, despite suggestions from the private sector that Cambodia could burn waste to produce electricity.
Phnom Penh poor uprooted as lakes filled in for malls, flats
Shortly after authorities approved filling in parts of the lake with sand and mud 10 years ago to build malls and apartments, they could not fish or farm anymore.