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Chinese Investments in Cambodia Ignore Environment Queries
- 29 March 2013
- The Irrawaddy Magazine
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China’s expanding investment portfolio in Cambodia has brought into sharper focus the darker side of the Asian giant’s “development projects” in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation. And it is in the southwestern corner of Cambodia—known for its rich biodiversity, forest covered hills and bubbling rivers—where this ...
Report shows lack of information on Chinese-Funded Railway
- 6 March 2013
- The Cambodia Daily
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With locals demanding dialogue with the Chinese firms behind a proposed multibillion dollar rail line to Preah Vihear province, an NGO report released yesterday highlights the dearth of information that has been made available on the project. Chinese company Cambodia Iron Steel Mining Industry Group (CISMIG) ...
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/report-shows-lack-of-information-on-chinese-funded-railway-12723/
Corporate: China powers its way through Cambodia
- 19 February 2013
- HydroWorld.com
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In the hilly wilderness across southwestern Cambodia, the foundations of the country’s strengthening bonds with China are taking root. It is there that large dams supported by Chinese money are being built to literally bring the impoverished Southeast Asian nation out of darkness. The largest of ...
http://www.hydroworld.com/news/2013/02/18/corporate-china-powers-its-way-through-cambodia.html
Insight: Cambodia's $11 billion mystery
- 14 February 2013
- Reuters
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The remote district of Rovieng was once a battleground between Cambodian government troops and Pol Pot’s genocidal Khmer Rouge. Unexploded bombs still lurk in its fields and forests. So does something more desirable – iron ore – and supposedly in such huge quantities two Chinese companies ...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/13/us-cambodia-china-idUSBRE91C1N320130213
Investment Figures Show Billions of Dollars from China
- 16 January 2013
- Voice of America (VOA)
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China has become Cambodia’s biggest investor, putting some $8.8 billion into the country over nearly two decades, according to online data from the government’s lead investment agency. Those investment numbers, from the Council for the Development of Cambodia, from 1994 to 2011, do not take into ...
Chinese firm to build $500m steel plant in Preah Vihear
- 21 November 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
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China’s Guangxi Nonferrous Metal Group announced on Friday that it is planning to invest $500 million to build a steel plant and industrial zone in Preah Vihear province’s Rovieng district, according to Chinese media reports ...
