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How Cambodia’s secretive timber auctions are fueling the illegal logging trade

14 July 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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In the predawn hours of May 6, a flatbed truck packed with lengths of illegally logged timber sped past a checkpoint in Ratanakkiri province, knocking aside a police car and racing off. Police later tracked down the truck to a house in Banlung City. In the ...

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