PM tries again on deforestation
In recent months Prime Minister Hun Sen has made an effort to show that the government has a handle on the voracious deforestation that has ravaged the country’s forests over the years. Yet his speeches and decrees have done little to slow down, much less stop, illegal logging and timber smuggling across the country. His past failures have not stopped him from using the same methods again though. On Tuesday, he ordered Tbong Khmum provincial governor Prach Chan to “totally eliminate” illegal timber smuggling and illegal logging in his province. ...
Ven Rathavong
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