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Advocates voice concerns ahead of ecotourism conference
- 30 September 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Environment and natural resources / Industries / Land / Sihanoukville / Tourism
- Development / ecotourism / hill tribes / industrial farming / Land concessions / Lodge des Terres Rouge / Ministry of Tourism / nature-based tourism / Pierre-Yves Clais / Ratanakkiri / rubber plantations / sihanoukville / Tith Chanda / World Ecotourism Conference
As the Tourism Ministry prepares to host the World Ecotourism Conference in Sihanoukville on Monday, ecotourism operators in three provinces said they were worried that the government’s development practices would undermine the very concept the conference is promoting. According to Tith Chanda, director general of the ...
Sand for Singapore's Growth Comes at Environmental Cost to Poorer Neighbors
- 22 August 2011
- Associated Press
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KOH KONG, Cambodia (AP) — Round a bend in Cambodia’s Tatai River and the virtual silence of a tropical idyll turns suddenly into an industrial nightmare. Lush jungle hills give way to a flotilla of dredgers operating 24 hours a day, scooping up sand and piling ...
Tycoon’s dredging tests locals’ patience
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Industries / Tourism
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Ruling party senator Ly Yong Phat has defied an order endorsed by the Prime Minster to halt his controversial sand dredging activities on the Tatai river in Koh Kong, prompting authorities to request intervention, documents obtained by The Post reveal. The dredging operation on the ...
Koh Kong king halted
- 22 July 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Industries / Tourism / Water resources
- Cambodia / complaints / Dredging / ecotourism / fish stocks / Investment / Koh Kong / Ly Young Phat / LYP Group / Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology / Tatai river / Tourism
Ly Yong Phat and his company LYP Group have been ordered to cease all dredging operations on the Tatai river pending a review of the effects by the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology. LYP Group currently has a permit to dredge seven areas of ...
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