Archive for the ‘Koh Kong’ Category

Chutt Wutty – The murder that shocked even Cambodia.

An Investigative Report by Bangkok Post. In Cambodia, the murder of a high-profile environmentalist has sent shockwaves around a country which has never shaken-off its reputation for violence, corruption and a culture of impunity among the ruling political and moneyed classes. THE FIGHT WILL GO ON: A woman holds a photograph of slain environmental activist [...]

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Cambodia: Bus accident in Koh Kong Province – 1 dead, 46 injured.

A bus crash in Cambodia has killed a Russian woman and left dozens of people injured, including 40 other Western tourists. A 22-year-old Russian woman was killed and 24 people left in critical conditions, yesterdaz, Feb 28, 2012, after a bus of  Paramount Angkor Express Co. Ltd. rolled over on National Road 48 in Koh [...]

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Cambodia: Illegal Logging in the Wild West?

Illegal logging of staggering proportions abetted by military personnel. This illegal logging is decimating stocks of luxury rosewood in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest (CCPF), while the conservation group tasked with protecting the area and its government counterparts deny the trade is even happening. Hugh market prices. Villagers, loggers and conservationists have verified that Forestry [...]

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Cambodia lures Estate Investors to Koh Kong Province.

Cambodia is developing its Koh Kong province, adjacent to Thailand‘s Trat province, The Kingdom attracts investors as industrial estates in central Thailand are flooded. Koh Kong Special Economic Zone. Cambodia opened the industrial estate a decade ago and foreign investors began moving there a few years ago. The Cambodian government has contracted the LYP Group [...]

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Cambodia: Koh Kong, the Wild West of the Kingdom of Wonder.

For months Ly Yong Phat, aka “King of Koh Kong“, illegally dug sand from the river Tatai. In these days one of  his excavators have paralyzed the power supply to the province capital. So far, neither Ly Yong Phat nor his LYP Group have made a public statement about the power outage and its fatal [...]

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Die Blogs des Nomaden

Nomade51 ist auf den Tag genau ein Jahr in Südostasien unterwegs. Zu Beginn war mein Weg durch Indochina gedanklich als ein nomadisierendes Reisen durch Vietnam, Laos und Kambodscha ausgelegt, begleitet von gelegentlichen Berichten in meinem Blog “Freddys Nomadenleben” http://nomade.swissblog.ch/. Die Idee dahinter war klar: meine Familie, Angehörigen und Freunde beruhigen. Vor allem aufzeigen, dass ich [...]

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Titanium Euphoria

Grosse Titanfunde in Kambodscha

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Hyundai Assembling

Production of the first cars and vans to be assembled in Cambodia for domestic sale is set to begin at the US$62 million Hyundai plant in Koh Kong province this September. Hyundais would be the first automobiles to be mass produced and marketed in the Kingdom.

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