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A way of life falls with trees

6 May 2014
The Phnom Penh Post
Civil society / Community forest / Economy and commerce / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Exports / Forest classifications / Forest policy and administration / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Government / Human rights / Investment / Land / Land policy and administration / Logging and timber / Social development / Trade
Hun Sen / Kaev Seima village / Kith Meng / MDS Import Export Co / Mondulkiri provincial forestry administration / Natural Resource and Wildlife Preservation Organization / Pcherb Be / Phnong ethnic minority / Royal Group / Saro Ratana / Srae Preah commune / Try Pheap

The Phnong ethnic minority in Mondulkiri province have heard the promises of development before. With increasing investment and the selling off of the region’s forests will come new roads and schools, they are told. But people in this ancient community, tired of seeing their sacred forests handed ...

 May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/way-life-falls-trees

To honour Chut Wutty

Nearly two years have passed since Cambodia’s leading forestry activist, Chut Wutty, was gunned down in the Cardamom Mountains. After a long wait, more than 100 activists, supporters and monks will finally make the pilgrimage on Saturday to the spot where he was killed to pay ...

 May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/honour-chut-wutty

Try Pheap given OK to harvest yellow vine

4 June 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Agricultural production / Agriculture and fishing / Crop products and commodities / Economic land concessions and plantations / Economy and commerce / Energy / Environment and natural resources / Ethnic minorities and indigenous people / Forest products / Forests and forestry / Generation and distribution facilities / Hydropower dams / Investment / Land / Law and judiciary / Logging and timber / Pollution and waste / Public land lease / Renewable energy production / Social development
Agriculture Ministry / ARA / berberine / Cambodian Center for Human Rights / Cardamom Mountains / Chheng Kim Sun / Chhim Savuth / Chut Wutty / deforestation / drug / economic land concession / ELCs / environmental impact / EU / Europe / European labs / forest clearing / forest destruction / forest ecosystem / Forestry Administration / Forestry Law / hydropower dam / illegal logger / illegal logging / illicit drugs / isoquinoline alkaloid / Land concession / Lo Rasmey / logging / Marcus Hardtke / MDMA / MDS Import Export / MDS Import Export Co / Ministry of Agriculture / mreas prov / Natural Resource Protection Group / pepper / plantation / pollution / Pursat / Ratanakkiri / reservoir-clearing permits / rubber / safrol oil / Southeast Asia / Stung Atay / Stung Atay hydropower dam / Thma Bang / UN Office on Drugs and Crime / Veal Veng / Washington / water contamination / yellow oil / yellow vine / Yellow vine oil

Logging baron Try Pheap’s MDS Import Export Co, Ltd has been granted a licence to collect and process the controversial plant known as yellow vine around the Stung Atay hydropower dam in the Cardamom Mountains, according to documents received by the Post yesterday. The vine has ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/2013060466045/National/try-pheap-given-ok-to-harvest-yellow-vine.html

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