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A pit mine belonging to a gold company in Ratanakiri province in 2023. (Supplied)

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R’kiri Provincial Authorities Deport Vietnamese After Illegal Gold Mining Swoop

18 Mar 2024 9:04 PM|
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Ratanakiri provincial authorities arrested 26 Vietnamese illegal gold miners in Ta Veng District, who were deported back to Vietnam through the O'Yadav international border with impunity.

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R’kiri Provincial Authorities Deport Vietnamese After Illegal Gold Mining Swoop

18 Mar 2024 9:04 PM|

Ratanakiri provincial authorities arrested 26 Vietnamese illegal gold miners in Ta Veng District, who were deported back to Vietnam through the O'Yadav international border with impunity.

Royal Gendarmerie forces have been deployed in Pursat province for a month-long operation to stamp out national resource crimes, as shown in a photo posted on Royal Gendarmerie Facebook page on March 12, 2024.

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Royal Gendarmerie Arrests 11 Pursat Residents in Wildlife Crime Crackdown

14 Mar 2024 4:06 PM|

Cambodia's Royal Gendarmerie arrested 11 Pursat province residents Tuesday after the military force deployed nearly 300 of its officers to crack down on natural resource crimes. Officers confiscated 11 makeshift huts, nine motorbikes, one electrofishing device, 23 pieces of cut wood, 10 chainsaws and seven plant seedlings, according to a Thursday Royal Gendarmerie Facebook post.

A view of Chumnab village from the top of Mrech Kang Kep Mountain in Koh Kong province, an area within the project zone of the Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project where Indigenous Chorng people live.

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HRW: Rights of Indigenous Chong Residents Violated in Southern Cardamom Carbon Offset Project

1 Mar 2024 2:45 PM|

A new report alleges that conservation NGO Wildlife Alliance forcibly evicted, arrested and mistreated members of the Indigenous Chong community who live in the Cardamom Mountain National Park in the name of a carbon offset scheme.

Ream Sreyrath joins a patrol with Anlong Koh Kang fishing community in October, 2023. (supplied)

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Pushing Against Traditional Gender Norms, Female Volunteers Protect Community Fisheries on Stung Treng Patrols

29 Feb 2024 11:32 AM|

Long before Ream Sreyrath, 23, first joined her Stung Treng community’s volunteer fisheries protection patrol, she’d been curious about the work of the mostly male crews who spent long hours cruising the Mekong River.

Veng Many fetches water from the Sesan River behind her house in Tiem Leu village of Ratanakiri province on October 29, 2023. (Try Thaney)

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On the Sesan River, Indigenous Villagers Struggle For Traditional Lifestyle Amidst Illegal Fishing, Hydroelectric Dams

26 Feb 2024 4:59 PM|

For the indigenous peoples of the Sesan River basin in Cambodia’s far northern uplands, a regional web of interconnected waterways has long been the foundation of traditional life.

A storefront of an App EV Bike location, with electric bikes and people standing in front.

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Electric Vehicle Drivers Still Face Roadblocks Despite Government Infrastructure Goals

19 Feb 2024 4:24 PM|

The Chinese startup App EV Bike opened a location in Phnom Penh last month with the intention of getting set up as the industry takes hold in Cambodia.

Ben Davis and a community ranger stand in a field of grass. A portion of the grass has been set on fire and smoke is visible. (CamboJA/ Sovann Sreypich)

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Conservation Group’s Militarized Forest Patrol Clashes With Villagers in Preah Vihear

1 Feb 2024 1:15 PM|

A man in camouflage pants and a shirt labeled “U.S. Army” lunges at a villager, swinging a rattan stick in his right hand, handcuffs in his left. The shaky phone video, repackaged by an online news outlet and viewed some 1.7 million times on Facebook, captured a conflict between Angkrong village residents and a group of military police and workers employed by a conservation NGO in Preah Vihear’s Phnom Thnout-Phnom Pok Wildlife Sanctuary.

Garment workers leave the factory during their lunch break in Phnom Penh, January 4, 2024. (CamboJA/Pring Samrang)

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Cambodian Garment Workers Suffer Effects of Climate Change

5 Jan 2024 10:01 PM|

Climate change is not a future concern for garment workers, but one that is already affecting their lives in the present, with over two-thirds of them presently suffering the effects of global warming, according to a report by NGO-CEDAW.

R’kiri Provincial Authorities Deport Vietnamese After Illegal Gold Mining Swoop

R’kiri Provincial Authorities Deport Vietnamese After Illegal Gold Mining Swoop

Royal Gendarmerie Arrests 11 Pursat Residents in Wildlife Crime Crackdown

HRW: Rights of Indigenous Chong Residents Violated in Southern Cardamom Carbon Offset Project

Pushing Against Traditional Gender Norms, Female Volunteers Protect Community Fisheries on Stung Treng Patrols

On the Sesan River, Indigenous Villagers Struggle For Traditional Lifestyle Amidst Illegal Fishing, Hydroelectric Dams

Electric Vehicle Drivers Still Face Roadblocks Despite Government Infrastructure Goals

Conservation Group’s Militarized Forest Patrol Clashes With Villagers in Preah Vihear

Cambodian Garment Workers Suffer Effects of Climate Change

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