Jeff Smith

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

At least 10 logging contracts covering more than 2 million hectares of land are being canceled in a move to curb illegal activity and...

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...

No abnormal levels of mercury have been detected in water supplies near a suspected toxic waste dump in Sihanoukville, and a Jap­anese scientist said...

sey village, Sihanoukville - Sam Sopheap says almost everyone living in this logging mill village downhill from a suspected toxic waste dump experienced diarrhea,...

sihanoukville - Two employees of the human rights group Licad­ho and eight protesters have been formally charged in the weekend riots here, court officials...

At Least 12 in Jail For Joining Protest sihanoukville - Activists on Tues­day decried the continued detention of two Licadho human rights workers, including the...

sihanoukville - First Deputy Governor Khim Bo, whose home was looted by protesters over the weekend, said Tuesday he had nothing to do with...

Armed Police Halt Dumping Protests sihanoukville - Two top customs and inspection officials were suspended here and police were detaining a Phnom Penh shipping agent...

In a cartoon for a local democracy think tank, Hun Sen and Prince Norodom Rana­riddh are depicted as proud parents overseeing the hatching of...

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,...

Those responsible for importing suspected toxic waste into Cambodia will be prosecuted and forced to pay millions of dollars in compensation to the state...

sihanoukville - Environmental officials say they suspect that a new dump site found about15 km outside the town center contains hazardous wastes shipped from...

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...

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...

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...