The Stung Cheay Areng dam would flood at least 26,000 acres and displace more than 1,500 people from their ancestral homes, Kalyanee Mam warns.
Forestry activists say at least 55,000 tons of luxury wood has been sent from Cambodia to China this year alone.
Forestry activists say at least 55,000 tons of luxury wood were sent from Cambodia to China this year alone.
Traing Try wrote stories for several small papers, mostly about illegal logging and the illicit transport of timber from Cambodia to Vietnam.
Award-winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam submitted an essay to VOA Khmer following the murder of journalist Taing Try. It is accompanied by a short film she edited in remembrance of him and the environmental issues Cambodia still faces. The following video is the short film.
Award-winning filmmaker Kalyanee Mam submitted an essay to VOA Khmer following the murder of journalist Taing Try.
The discussions over the Don Sahong Dam will start in Stung Treng province this week, near the Lao border, and continue through early December.
Some 2.2 million acres have been granted to companies, affecting 420,000 people, according to the rights group Licadho.
The dam is expected to flood five villages where some 5,000 people live.
Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong is slated to deliver a speech to the UN’s General Assembly on Monday in New York.
Representatives of global corporations, national governments and indigenous peoples resolved to work together to save the forests.
One was Chut Wutty, an activist who was shot to death by security guards in 2012 and the other was Chok Sopheap, a prominent activist.
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