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Officials from the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction and the Koh Kong Provincial Administration organised a lottery on October 14-15 to divide plots of land for 831 families who have been locked in a long-standing dispute with the Union Development Group.

Crocodylus siamensis), and Cambodia’s largest concentration of Asian elephants ( Elephas maximus). Sunda pangolins (Manis javanica) are critically endangered. Image by Frendi Apen Irawan via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SS 2.0). The first biodiversity survey of the Cardamom Mountains in 2000 found that although they cover just 6% of Cambodia’s land mass, they account for most of Cambodia’s large mammal species and half of Cambodia’s known bird, reptile and amphibian species. On the coast, t...

Cambodia’s Botum Sakor National Park is already riddled with concessions. Now officials are building an industrial zone and coal power plant

Share The Electricity Authority of Cambodia hopes that by 2030 some 70 per cent households would have grid-quality electricity. Hong Menea Powering up on coal but at what cost? Thu, 21 January 2021 The haste to expand economic growth and achieve rural electrification has drawn Chinese interest and though China is closing down fossil fuel plants in its country as emissions rise, Cambodia prefers to look the other way ‘Yes,” Ministry of Mines and Energy spokesman Victor Jona briefly replied t...