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Sesan Dam Law Approved
- 18 February 2013
- Radio Free Asia
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Cambodia’s parliament on Friday approved a law providing financial guarantees for the developers of a planned hydropower dam on a Mekong River tributary, despite opposition from civil society groups seeking to delay the project. Villagers campaigning against the Lower Sesan 2 dam in northeastern Cambodia’s Stung ...
Villagers Petition Against Dam
- 14 February 2013
- Radio Free Asia
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Ethnic minority villagers expecting to be displaced by a proposed Chinese-built hydroelectric dam in northeastern Cambodia are asking the country’s parliament not to approve a law providing financial guarantees for the project. Villagers living along three rivers that will be affected by the dam spoke ...
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/villagers-02142013163955.html
State Utility Staff May Be Registered To Vote Twice
- 30 May 2012
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Securities exchange (stock market) / Stock market
- Commune Elections / CPP / EdC / Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) / Employees / government employees / Opposition party / power company / press conference / SRP / SRP lawmaker Yim Sovann / staff member / State Utility Staff / vote / Vote Twice / Yim Sovann
The SRP yesterday said it had found that more than 90 employees of state-owned power company Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) were registered to vote in two separate places for Sunday’s commune elections and warned that the ruling CPP may use such government employees to vote ...