Cambodia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation issued a press release on the outcomes of the 6th Mekong-Lancang Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting and the bilateral meeting between Cambodian and Thai Foreign Ministers, held yesterday in Chongqing, China.
Category: Cambodia
Last great forest in Oddar Meanchey under attack, more resources needed
Sang Rukhavoan Community Forest in Oddar Meanchey province is under attack by poachers and tree-grabbers who have increased their criminal activity since February, according to Bun Saluth, a forest protector appointed by the government and former monk.
Time for a wind-power push: firm
Even if the 2030 target of 17,677MW total installed electrical generation capacity set in 2019 for the country were to be revised down by 30 per cent following the pandemic, the wind power share would only represent a mere 0.64 per cent of Cambodia’s total capacity installed in 2030.
NGO launches ‘4Rs’ project to reduce use of plastics
About 10 million plastic bags are used daily in Phnom Penh while the average Cambodian living in cities uses more than 2,000 plastic bags a year.
Vietnamese in Cambodia struggle as local authority dismantles temporary shelters
To Van Trong a resident from the area, said that his family and most of the people in the area had lived on floating houses in Prek Pnov district’s river, Phnom Penh, since 1980 after Vietnamese volunteers soldiers helped Cambodia overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime. Although their life is difficult, they still have lived there for decades.
‘Mangroves are life’: the female conservationists rewilding the Cambodian coast
The campaign, She Is The Answer, supports communities to become more resilient by training women to take up climate-adaptive livelihoods. The work is underpinned by research that has shown female empowerment to be one of the most effective solutions at our disposal in tackling global heating.
Coal-powered developments threaten Cambodia’s largest national park
Within a protected area covered by a patchwork of plantations, Cambodian officials are making space for yet another industrial zone, and a new coal-fired power plant
Illegal company stopped from filling flooded forest in Banteay Meanchey
Chan Ra, a resident of Prasath village, said that he believes local authorities conspired with a local company to clear land in the protected area.