HAGL filled in lakes: villagers

25 June 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
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More than 100 families living in Ratanakkiri’s Lumphat district have filed a complaint with authorities, claiming a rubber giant – already accused of illegal logging – filled in two natural lakes, provincial officials said yesterday. Villagers, along with government officials, say Vietnamese company Hong Anh Gai Lai (HAGL) did not have permission to fill in the lakes, which communities in the area considered culturally significant. …

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