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Cambodia's lust for rubber drives ethnic group from land

For generations, the indigenous Bunong were famous as the great elephant keepers and masters of the forests in eastern Cambodia. They called the fertile, rolling hills of their ancestral homeland “meh ne,” or mother – a source of food, livelihoods and self-identity. ...

Malcolm J. Foster and Denis D. Gray
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/cambodia-s-lust-for-rubber-drives-ethnic-group-from-land-1.2834335

370 workers faint at Cambodia factories after nearby farmer sprays pesticides

About 370 workers fainted at Cambodian factories in the past two days, possibly because of pesticide spraying on nearby rice fields, officials said Friday. The garment industry is Cambodia’s biggest export earner, employing about 700,000 people in more than 700 garment and shoe factories. In ...

The Associated Press News Staff
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/370-workers-faint-at-cambodia-factories-after-nearby-farmer-sprays-pesticides-1.2667077

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