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Cambodia Braces for a Mining Invasion

Cambodia Braces for a Mining Invasion

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Sep 21, 2007
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Cambodia’s once-abundant natural resources, whose timber reserves already were stripped to fund its disastrous civil war, are ripe for more exploitation. Saddled with a weak and often corrupt government, it is now in danger of seeing its mineral rights looted, as even officials charged with protecting the environment say the time has come to sacrifice s…

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