Hun Sen Again Orders Stop to Illegal Logging
Prime Minister Hun Sen has again ordered local officials to step up their efforts to stop illegal timber being cut down and transported from Cambodia’s forest’s in response to an apparent rise in forest crimes. … Thousands of cubic meters of luxury wood, as well as lower grade timber, has been stripped from Cambodia’s forest and exported to China in recent years, much if it likely travelling across the border with Vietnam, according to Chinese customs data. Since the late 1990’s Mr. Hun Sen has ordered several similar efforts to eliminate the longstanding blight of illegal logging in the country. …
