No licences, much dredging

Five sand-dredging operations in Ratanakkiri province – one owned by the provincial director of Public Works and Transportation – have been in business illegally for some 20 years, the rights group Adhoc said yesterday. Adhoc said that it uncovered the operations in Veun Say, Lumphat and O’Yadav districts, just over a week after journalists in the province were encouraged by a visiting Ministry of Mines and Energy official to investigate unlicensed mining and dredging. …

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