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Indigenous communities want more transparency around mining projects
Indigenous community representatives told a forum on extractive industries on Friday that they were concerned about the effects mining projects in their areas could have on their health and livelihoods, and asked that they be better informed by companies and the government. ...
Hun Sirivadh
https://vodenglish.news/indigenous-communities-want-more-transparency-around-mining-projects/
1 in 20 Firms Carry Out Environment Assessments
- 23 November 2012
- The Cambodia Daily
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Only about 5 percent of the roughly 2,000 major development projects, such as dams, roads and bridges, approved by the government between 2004 and 2011 carried out environmental impact assessments, an official at the ministry of Environment said yesterday. Speaking at a workshop in Phnom Penh ...
Simon Lewis and Khuon Narim, P.1
http://www.cambodiadaily.com
Deals With China Inked
- 22 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
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Cambodia agreed to acquire Chinese-made Z-9 helicopters for US$195 million in one of 26 memorandums of understanding agreed by the two countries on Saturday. Cooperation was pledged in sectors such as energy, mining, agriculture and road construction, as well as defense spending and aid. The ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011082251177/Business/deals-with-china-inked.html
World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions
- 9 August 2011
- Reuters
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Multilateral development assistance / Phnom Penh / World Bank
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The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. “The World Bank’s last ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/cambodia-worldbank-idUSL3E7J920D20110809
