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Provisional sand dredging licenses awarded
The Ministry of Mines and Energy on Friday announced the provisional winners of its public auction to award four licenses to dredge sand on a stretch of the Mekong River clogged by a build-up of silt, which is obstructing the passage of vessels through the ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/provisional-sand-dredging-licenses-awarded-85500/
Mines Ministry issues new dredging licences
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has announced that it will grant two sand dredging licences around Phnom Penh Port, just days after declaring that no new licences would be issued until economic impact assessments had been carried out. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mines-ministry-issues-new-dredging-licences
Energy Ministry to decentralise licensing miners
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has decided to decentralise the process for small-scale miners and dredgers to obtain licences, with the government now permitting provincial authorities to directly issue licences to operators without ministerial oversight. Speaking at a meeting on the new measures, Dith Tina, ...
Taing Vida and Ethan Harfenist
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/energy-ministry-decentralise-licensing-miners
Sand dredgers freed in capital, jailed in Kandal
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Saturday fined and released 10 workers swept up in a crackdown on illegal sand dredging operations by the Ministry of Mines and Energy last week. ...
Ben Sokhean and Alex Consiglio
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/sand-dredgers-freed-in-capital-jailed-in-kandal-81451/
Cambodia won’t renew dredging licenses amid industry study: ministry official
Authorities will not renew operating licenses for sand-dredging companies in Cambodia if impact studies on the industry are not completed by the time the licenses expire at year-end, a ministry official said Friday. ...
RFA Khmer News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Fvo7ux
Eleven arrested over illegal Sand dredging
Three owners of sand dredging companies were among 11 people arrested Thursday by military police—working in tandem with the Ministry of Mines and Energy—for operating without a proper license, according to a spokesman for the ministry. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/eleven-arrested-over-illegal-sand-dredging-81320/
