Dredging ends, effects linger

Ruling party Senator Ly Yong Phat has kept a promise to stop his company’s dredging operations on Koh Kong province’s Tatai river, relieved business owners and residents living along the waterway said yesterday. But provincial officials confirmed that as the senator’s dredging boats moved on to their new location, one of them hit an electricity pole, knocking out power in the provincial capital, Kemarak Phumin town, for an estimated four to seven days. Janet Newman, owner of the Rainbow Lodge ecotourism resort, said Ly Yong Phat had stuck to an agreement he made with her and others to stop dredging by October 17, and even finished early, to the delight of tourism operators and, in particular, riverside communities…

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