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Chinese Firms Foresee Industrial Hub in Preah Vihear
- 11 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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- Adventist Development and Relief Agency / Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary / Cambodia Iron and Steel Mining Industry Group / cashew nuts / Cassava / Chinese aid / Chinese companies / Chinese investment / Chinese investors / CISMIG / Council for the Development of Cambodia / Delcom / economic land concession / Electricity / exploration licence / extraction licenses / grow rice / Guangxi Nonferrous Metals Group / Hun Sen / iron ore / iron ore smelters / iron productio / Koh Kong / Koh Kong Province / Kompong Thom / Kong Makara / Kuy ethnic minority / Laos / Malaysian aid / mining licenses / Port / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Province / Prime Minister Hun Sen / railway / Rovieng / Rovieng District / Rubber plantation / Ruosroan commune / seaport / small-scale gold mining / smelter
Preah Vihear province – The residents of this sleepy district, on the edge of the Boeng Per Wildlife Sanctuary, grow rice, cassava and cashew nuts. But in a few short years, Chinese investors envisage that Rovieng will be rapidly transformed into an industrial town. ...
Insight: Cambodia's $11 billion mystery
- 14 February 2013
- Reuters
- Extractive Industries / Extractive industries policy and administration / Industrial mining / Infrastructure / Iron and steel / Minerals and mineral products / Mining / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- Australian Defence Force Academy / Cambodia Investment Board / Cambodia Iron and Steel / Carlyle Thaye / China Major Bridge Engineering / Chinese expansionism / Chinese factories / Daniel Mitchell / economic clout / government troops / Gulf of Thailand / Indian Ocean / Iron / Iron and Steel Mining Industry Group / iron ore / Khmer Rouge / mega-projects / Ministry of Public Works and Transport / Pol Pot / railway / Raw material / Rovieng / seaport / South China Sea / Southeast Asia / SRP International / steel plant / Sun Qi Cai / Tram Iv Tek / Unexploded bombs / United States aid / Zhang Chuan You
The remote district of Rovieng was once a battleground between Cambodian government troops and Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge. Unexploded bombs still lurk in its fields and forests. So does something more desirable – iron ore – and supposedly in such huge quantities two Chinese companies ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE91C1N320130213
Protected forest ‘is finished’
- 11 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Environmental and biodiversity protection / National parks and wildlife sanctuaries / Protected forest
- agro-industrial development / agro-industry / An Mady Group Co Ltd / Boeung Per / Boeung Per Wildlife Sanctuary / business / Chhut Vuthy / Chhut Vuthy Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group / concession land / concessions / Development / Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group / Director of the Natural Resources Protection Group Chhut Vuthy / fishing cat / Forest / Government / government-backed appropriation / government-backed appropriations / Hun Sen / Kampong Thom / Kampong Thom Province / Kompong Thom / Kompong Thom Province / Kui / Kui ethnic minority / Kulen Promtep / Kulen Promtep Wildlife Sanctuary / land / Land concessions / Lim Heng / Mekong Rubber Co / Ministry of Environment / Ministry of Environment Secretary of State Thuk Kroeun Vutha / muntjac deer / natural resources / Natural Resources Protection Group / Okhna An Mady / Plantations / Preah Vihear / Preah Vihear Community Network for Action / Preah Vihear Province / Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district / prime minister / private land / Protected land / reclassified / resin / resin trees / resources / Romny / Romny commune / Romny commune of Preah Vihear’s Rovieng district / Rovieng / Rovieng District / Royal Decree / rubber / rubber plantations / Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment Thuk Kroeun Vutha / Sovanpaum Co / threatened species / Thuk Kroeun Vutha / Thuk Kroeun Vutha Secretary of State at the Ministry of Environment / timber / trees / Try Pheap Import Export Co Ltd / Wildlife Sanctuary
In the latest government backed appropriation of protected land, nearly 20,000 hectares of the Boeung Per wildlife sanctuary have been reclassified as state private land for agro-industrial development. Two sub-decrees, obtained by The Post this week and initialed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on July ...
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