Flooding along the Mekong River in three provinces has claimed six lives and left hundreds of families homeless, authorities said Monday. Five of the victims were children. Though the flooding has abated somewhat in the provinces of Kratie and Stung Treng, it has continued farther south, in the populous province of Kampong Cham, Mao Hak, director of the meteorology department of the Ministry of Water Resources said.
Cambodia’s woodlands are seeing continued deforestation, despite a plan by the government to curb illegal logging, environmental groups say. Authorities say they have a plan to protect the forest, but non-governmental groups say the problem persists, including through an increase in land concessions, and massive illegal logging by the military.
From March 27 to April 7, 2006, a joint mission by the World Bank and the Government of Germany through GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) reviewed progress on the preparation of a proposed Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project (LASED). The proposal is being prepared under the guidance of the Council for Land Policy [...]
The results of a study comparing the business environments of Cambodia’s ten most economically active provinces and municipalities were announced on October 26, 2006 in a seminar for 200 representatives from government, private enterprise, donor agencies and the media. This survey, the 2006 Provincial Business Environment Scorecard (PBES), is a joint initiative of the International [...]