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Pepper business adds to Kingdom’s deforestation woes
While the luxury timber trade continues to eat away at Cambodia’s forests, there is another industry that poses a growing threat to the Kingdom’s trees: pepper farms. ...
Mech Dara and Igor Kossov
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pepper-business-adds-kingdoms-deforestation-woes
Youth lead tribal push for development
The move toward modernity and development is often represented in numbers: growth in GDP, wellness indicators and many other kinds of statistics. ...
Ros Chanveasna and Raquel Bacay
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17771/youth-lead-tribal-push-for-development/
Mondulkiri airport to become public park
Now that the roads to Mondulkiri are better and driving to the province is much cheaper, provincial officials have found a new use for the dilapidated airport. ...
Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/17741/mondulkiri-airport-to-become-public-park/
Rubber firm guard sought over shooting
Military police in Mondolkiri province say they are searching for a guard working for a local rubber company who allegedly injured three villagers Saturday when he fired a bullet in their direction that ricocheted off a rock, prompting questions about the firm’s use of armed ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rubber-firm-guard-sought-over-shooting-67647/
Police officer charged with intentional killing
Mondolkiri Provincial Court charged a national police officer with intentional killing on Friday, the latest in an increasing trend of violent disputes over timber in the restive province. Pheng Sokheng, who was sent to the Seima Protected Forest to stifle the work of illegal loggers, on ...
Mech Dara
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/police-officer-charged-with-intentional-killing-63908/