City Hall blocks bike ride against hydro-project

Phnom Penh security forces on Sunday blocked activists from riding their bicycles around the city to promote their campaign against the pending construction of a hydropower dam in Koh Kong province, claiming the organizers failed to ask City Hall for permission. The NGO Mother Nature has been campaigning on behalf of an ethnic minority Chong community in Koh Kong that wants the government to cancel its plans for the 108-MW Stung Areng dam. The project will force hundreds of them to relocate and flood much of their ancestral homeland along with forests that are home to some endangered species. …

Mech Dara and Zsombor Peter
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