Report that new ELCs were granted to logging barons ‘false’

In an open letter to the Ministry of Environment, the Cambodian Center for Human Rights (CCHR) asked yesterday for confirmation of a January 19 report in the Cambodia Daily that said new economic land concessions (ELCs) had been given to two tycoons despite a ban on granting ELCs. …

Sao Sopheap, spokesman for the Ministry of Environment, said he had assured her that the article in the Daily was factually incorrect. …

May Titthara
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