PM urges action against unnamed firms

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered officials to take action against unnamed companies he said were using the cover of night to illegally dredge sand from the Mekong River. Calling on Water Resources and Meteorology Minister Lim Kean Hor to lead the crackdown, Hun Sen also said some companies with licences were operating in the wrong areas. “And the other was mobile only at night for illegal sand dredging in the river, and I told HE Lim Kean Hor to search for this company,” he said in a speech to about 15,000 villagers, government officials and foreign dignitaries attending the inauguration of a container terminal at the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port in the Kien Svay district of Kandal province, about 30 kilometres east of Phnom Penh. …

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