Jeff Smith
Waste Study by WHO Used to Refute Claims Refutes Claims to Deny Claim
Taiwan’s Formosa Plastics Corp is balking at compensating possible toxic-waste victims in part because the company claims that a World Health Organization report said...
World Bank Praises Logging Contract Cuts
A new World Bank report says that the government’s recent cancellation of logging contracts covering more than 2 million hectares of land represents a...
Activists Highlight Exploited Child Workers
It has become an all-too-familiar and sad story: A teen-age girl is lured from the provinces to Phnom Penh by a stranger who promises...
Waste Passed Insufficient Test
Ministry of Industry experts declared in early December that waste from Taiwan was merely cement and ceramic materials, even though they didn’t have the...
Team to Meet with Taiwanese Firm Over Waste
A three-person team will travel to Taiwan to negotiate with petrochemical giant Formosa Plastics over compensation and the removal of toxic waste from Sihanoukville,...
10 Log Concessions Cut, But Others Loom Large
At least 10 logging contracts covering more than 2 million hectares of land are being canceled in a move to curb illegal activity and...
Second Test Confirms Waste’s High Toxicity
A second test, this one conducted in Japan, has judged a sample of the mercury-tainted waste dumped near Sihanoukville to be highly toxic, officials...
Waste Not Tainting Water, Air, Expert Finds
No abnormal levels of mercury have been detected in water supplies near a suspected toxic waste dump in Sihanoukville, and a Japanese scientist said...
Status of Waste Still Unclear as Sickness Reports Persist
sey village, Sihanoukville - Sam Sopheap says almost everyone living in this logging mill village downhill from a suspected toxic waste dump experienced diarrhea,...
10 Charged For Roles in S’ville Riots
sihanoukville - Two employees of the human rights group Licadho and eight protesters have been formally charged in the weekend riots here, court officials...
Rights Activists Protest S’ville Detentions
At Least 12 in Jail For Joining Protest sihanoukville - Activists on Tuesday decried the continued detention of two Licadho human rights workers, including the...
S’ville Official Denies Role In Shipment
sihanoukville - First Deputy Governor Khim Bo, whose home was looted by protesters over the weekend, said Tuesday he had nothing to do with...
Suspensions, Arrests in S’ville Scandal
Armed Police Halt Dumping Protests sihanoukville - Two top customs and inspection officials were suspended here and police were detaining a Phnom Penh shipping agent...
Can a New Coalition Defeat the Temptation Of Power and Money?
In a cartoon for a local democracy think tank, Hun Sen and Prince Norodom Ranariddh are depicted as proud parents overseeing the hatching of...
S’ville Waste Holds Mercury; Toxicity Unknown
The 3,000 tons of waste dumped earlier this month in the Sihanoukville area consists of 20-year-old sludge tainted with the highly toxic metal mercury,...
Official Vows Fines for Toxic Waste Imports Importers
Those responsible for importing suspected toxic waste into Cambodia will be prosecuted and forced to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the state...
Possible Toxic Dump Found Near S’ville
sihanoukville - Environmental officials say they suspect that a new dump site found about15 km outside the town center contains hazardous wastes shipped from...
Environment Chief Decries Kulen Grant
Cambodia’s top environmental official said he has asked the government to reconsider its decision to grant a development contract at Phnom Kulen, one of...
Cambodian Art Seeks a Market
Art Enthusiasts Seek to ‘Break the Cycle’ Keeping Cambodian Art Hidden Inside a new gallery in Phnom Penh, art professor Ly Daravuth points to a...
Tax Collection Down Despite Logging Yield
The government’s collection of only about $5 million in logging revenue so far this year is lower than in previous years, despite high harvest...
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Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior Threatens to Seize Assets of Opposition Officials...
Cambodia’s Ministry of Interior has threatened to seize the assets of officials from the country’s now-dissolved opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) if they do not end a call to boycott the general election in July, drawing concern from observers who say there is no legal precedent to do so.
