SIEM PANG, Cambodia “I remember seeing a buffalo, its head tied to a floating barrel, drifting down the river,” says Pheng Sisuwath, gesturing to the Sekong River from his stilt house in Cambodia’s northeastern province of Stung Treng. That was four years ago, when one of the auxiliary dams of the Xe Pian Xe-Namnoy […]
PHNOM TAMAO, Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen has stepped in to cancel all development projects slated for the Phnom Tamao forest, near the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, following months of public condemnation. The announcement on the morning of Aug. 7 saw work in what remains of the forest snap to a halt, but […]