Fresh arrests on Laos border

17 December 2012
The Phnom Penh Post
Environment and natural resources / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Land / Logging and timber
illegal logging / illegal timber / Laos / Laos border / rosewood / Siam Pang district / Stung Treng Province / trespassing

Cambodian authorities announced yesterday they would release six Laos who were arrested in Cambodia last Thursday on suspicion of illegal logging, provided that Laos cooperates with broader border negotiations in Stung Treng province’s Siam Pang district, where the men were arrested. Svay Nhoun, a Stung Treng military battalion commander, said that district authorities seized tractors and other logging equipment from the six men, who were preparing to illegally log rosewood near the border. …

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