Cambodia is systematically squashing

all forms of dissent

The Economist (19- December - 2017)

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S.O.S MEKONG RIVER 

• ​​Relocation site for Sesan villagers flooded
  

The Phnom Penh Post (2 - November- 2017) 

• As dam’s waters rise, holdout Sesan village leaves villagers say goodbye to ancestral homes

The Phnom Penh Post (18 - October- 2017) 

• Sesan dam goes online, while PM dismisses environmental concerns
  

The Phnom Penh Post (26 - September - 2017) 

• ​Locals told to leave dam before PM’s visit
  

Khmer Times (15 - September - 2017)

• Students Blocked from Dam

The Phnom Penh Post (11 - September - 2017) 

• ​Son Chhay request on Sesan dam passed on
  

The Phnom Penh Post (07 - September - 2017) 

• ​​Lower Sesan II dam protesters summonsed
  

The Phnom Penh Post (31 - August - 2017) 

• ​Cambodian Indigenous Minorities Fighting Tide of Development
  

Voice of America (29 - August - 2017) 

• ​Sesan Dam Holdout Families Petition Ministry for Intervention
  

The Cambodia Daily (28 - August - 2017) 

• Hydropower Dam Holdouts Deny Gov’t ‘Secessionist’ Accusation
  

​Voice of America (28 - August - 2017) 

• Stung Treng villagers seek intervention on dam​​​​
  

The Phnom Penh Post (25 - August - 2017) 

• Government Brands Villagers ‘Secessionist’ After Srekor Office Denial
  

The Cambodia Daily (15 - August - 2017) 

• ​Villagers summonsed again in dredging case
  

The Phnom Penh Post (14 - August - 2017)

• Villagers Summoned Over Peaceful Protest Against Sand Dredging

The Cambodia Daily (14 - August - 2017) 

• ​Gov’t Officials, Plainclothes Police Crash Village Protest Meeting
  

The Cambodia Daily (10 - August - 2017)  

• ​Local interrogated over sand dredging meetings at her house
  

The Phnom Penh Post (09 - August - 2017)

• Returning Sesan Families Warned of Greater Floods From Dam
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 - August - 2017)  Read as PDF

• Meet between officials, dam villagers cancelled
  

The Phnom Penh Post (31 - July - 2017)

• ​Flooding reaches Srekor village
  

The Phnom Penh Post (31 - July - 2017)​​​

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• UN Officials Blocked From Villages Facing Threat of Flood
  

The Cambodia Daily (26 - July - 2017) Download as PDF

• Officials stop outsiders travelling to Sesan dam

The Phnom Penh Post (25 - July - 2017)

• Sesan locals protest over supporters’ detention

The Phnom Penh Post (24 - July - 2017)

• Police Stop Activists From Reaching Sesan II Dam Village

The Cambodia Daily (24 - July - 2017) - Read as PDF

​BLOOD GOLD

• ​A Cambodian gold mine shrouded in secrecy
  

The Phnom Penh Post (04 - August - 2017)

• Preah Vihear land returned after high-level meeting
  

The Phnom Penh Post (12 - July - 2017)

MISCELLANEOUS 

• Groundbreaking Environmental Campaign Group Closed as Activists Arrested

Voice of America (20 - September - 2017) 

• Environmental NGO Mother Nature dissolved
  

​The Phnom Penh Post (18 - September - 2017)

• Breaking: Mother Nature stricken from registry
  

The Phnom Penh Post (15 - September - 2017)

• NGO Wary of Promise to Cancel Hydropower Dam Project - អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

The Cambodia Daily (15 March 2017)

​SAND MINING SCAM

• ​​CSOs call for release of detained Mother Nature activists
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The Phnom Penh Post (14 - November - 2017)

• In Cambodia, Activists Risk Prison to Expose Ecological Scars of Sand Mining

UNDARK Magazine / 25 October 2017 

• ​柬埔寨與台灣進出口數字兜不攏 164萬噸砂石憑空消失
  

Taiwan Environmental Information Center - TEIA - 22 - September - 2017

• Discrepancies in Cambodian Sand Exports Spark Fraud Allegations
  

Voice of America (VOA) / 14 - September - 2017

• Koh Kong activists charged
  

The Phnom Penh Post (14 - September - 2017)

• Fresh sand ‘fraud’, claims NGO Mother Nature, as sand numbers between Taiwan and the government appear to be off by more than 1.5M tonnes
  

The Phnom Penh Post (13 - September - 2017)

• ​Ministry responds to MP’s request on silica
  

The Phnom Penh Post (24 - August - 2017)

• Mother Nature activist held over drone use
  

The Phnom Penh Post (08 - August - 2017)

• Anti-Dredging Activist Held for Filming, Inciting Protesters
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 - August - 2017)  Download as PDF

• More riverbank collapses near sand dredging site
  

The Phnom Penh Post (07 - August - 2017)

• ​Sand facility allowed to operate
  

The Phnom Penh Post (01 - August - 2017)

• ​Assembly Rejects Lawmaker’s Request for Sand Mining Info
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 - August - 2017)  Download as PDF

• ​​CNRP MP seeks clarity on sand-dredging ban
  

The Phnom Penh Post (01 - August - 2017)

• ​Cambodia bans sand exports permanently
  

BBC (13 - July - 2017)

• Cambodia bans sand exports to Singapore after environmental group pressure
  

The Straits Times (12 - July - 2017)

• Dredging Permitted in Koh Kong Despite Sand Export Ban
  

The Cambodia Daily (6 - July - 2017) - Download as PDF

• ​Koh Kong sand exports permanently banned after volume discrepancies
  

The Phnom Penh Post (12 - July - 2017)

• ​Supreme Court Orders Eco-Activist’s Appeal to Be Reheard
  

The Cambodia Daily (6 - July - 2017) - Download as PDF / អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

• Activist’s case sent to lower court for retrial
  

The Phnom Penh Post (6 - July - 2017)

• ​Dredging boats spotted off Koh Kong
  

The Phnom Penh Post (3 - July - 2017)

• ​‘We feel stronger’: meet those fighting the sand-dredging business in Cambodia
  

New Internationalist (29 - June - 2017)

• ​Son Chhay plans to summon mines minister regarding sand
  

The Phnom Penh Post (23 - June - 2017)

• ​Environmental Campaigner’s Appeal Goes to the Supreme Court
  

The Cambodia Daily (22 - June 2017) - Download as PDF

• ​New facility worries activists
  

The Phnom Penh Post (20  - June - 2017)

• ​CNRP lawmaker wants info on export of sand
  

The Phnom Penh Post (15  - June - 2017)

• ​Opposition Official Seeks More Information on Silica Sand Exports
  

The Cambodia Daily (15 June 2017)

• ​Kandal Villagers Shout Down Officials, Demand End to Dredging
  

The Cambodia Daily (14 June 2017)

• Official visits villagers whose homes collapsed near sand dredging site
  

The Phnom Penh Post (13  - June - 2017)

• ​Mother Nature activists allege intimidation at sand dredging protest
  

The Phnom Penh Post (13  - June - 2017)

• ‘Anarchist’ Activist Flees Village for UN, Alleging Harassment
  

The Cambodia Daily (13 - June - 2016)

• ​Dredging protest in Kandal
  

The Phnom Penh Post (12  - June - 2017)

​Customs Recorded Less Than 1% of Singapore Sand Imports  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

The Cambodia Daily (30 - May - 2016)

• Authorities Block Students From Holding Mangrove Forest Event
  

Download as PDF - The Cambodia Daily (15 - May - 2017)

• ​Questions linger over second accused ship
  

The Phnom Penh Post (08  - May - 2017)

• ​Ministry denies illegal exports
  

The Phnom Penh Post (08  - May - 2017)

• ​Cambodia Dismisses Claims of Illicit Sand Exports Despite Ban
  

Radio Free Asia - English service - (05 - May - 2017)

• ​Ministry Defends Sand Exports, NGO Rebuts Claims
  

The Cambodia Daily (05 - May - 2017)

• Taiwan-bound vessel’s sand ‘exempt from ban’

The Phnom Penh Post (05 - May - 2017)

• ​​Inquiry afoot after sand shipping video goes viral
  

The Phnom Penh post (03 - May - 2017)

• Viral Video Claiming to Show Illegal Sand Exports Spurs Inquiry
  

The Cambodia Daily (03 - May - 2017)

• Cambodia’s Dirty Business
  

​​Hakai Magazine (19 April, 2017)

• An improbable global shortage: sand
  

​The Economist ( 30th March 2017)

• Mother Nature Activist Returns After Fleeing
  

The Cambodia Daily (29 March 2017)

• Singaporean Officials Rebuff CNRP Questions Over Sand Exports​
  

 The Cambodia Daily ( 03 April  2017) 

• Cambodia's Sambor Dam Plans Cause Controversy as Public Left in the dark  
  

Mongabay News ( 16 March 2017) 

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• Official shares locals’ concerns of dredging

​​Phnom Penh Post  (08 March 2017)

• Sand mining: the global environmental crisis you’ve probably never heard of
  

​The Guardian (27 February 2017)

• ​​​​Cardamoms in power’s path

​Phnom Penh Post  (20 February 2017)

• Government Ditches Hydropower Dam for More Coal Power

The Cambodia Daily (20 February 2017)

• Mother Nature Sentence Upheld as Activists Mull Return     អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ
  

The Cambodia Daily (16 February 2017)

• ​Mother Nature activists’ appeal rejected​​​​ 

​Phnom Penh Post (16 February 2017)

• Mother Nature activists' appeal pushes on, minus lawyers
  

​Phnom Penh Post ( 01 February 2017) 
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• ​After Activists Flee Country, Mother Nature Appeal Moves Forward

The Cambodia Daily ( 01 February 2017)

• Mother Nature activists’ appeal to be heard
  

Phnom Penh Post ​ ( 31 January 2017)

• ​Three Mother Nature Activists Flee Country, Boycotting Trial
  

The Cambodia Daily (25 - January - 2017)

• S’pore has stopped buying sand from Cambodia, for now
  

Mothership.sg (25-January-2017)

• ​Sand stats ‘correct’: government
  

Phnom Penh Post (25 - January - 2017)

• Sand exports in limbo
  

​Khmer Times (25 - January - 2017)

• Be Proud About Sand Exports, Spokesman Says
  

​The Cambodia Daily (25 - January - 2017)

• ​​Singapore, Cambodia Say Sand Exports Have Stopped  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ
  

The Cambodia Daily (24 - January - 2017)

• ​Strict rules in place for import of sand: Government 
  

​​The Straits Times Singapore (23 - January - 2017)

• S'pore has strict criteria for sand imports, says Govt, as ​controversy over Cambodian imports brews

Today (Singapore) - (23 - January - 2017)

• ​Singapore’s Government Breaks Months of Silence Over Sand Scandal អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

The Cambodia Daily (17 - January - 2017)

• National Development Ministry clarifies about sand dredged from Cambodia amidst threat of lawsuit / The Independent - Singapore (17 - January - 2017)

• Singapore's overdue response to Cambodian sand-trade data misses the point NGO says (opens as pdf)

Mlex Market Insight (17 - January - 2017) 

• ​Singapore and Cambodia: A Relationship Built on Sand
  

The Diplomat (11 - January - 2017)

• ​S’pore president to visit amid sand controversy
  

Phnom Penh Post (06 - January - 2017)

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• ​Singapore Could Face Legal Action Over Sand Importation
  

The Cambodia Daily (05 - January - 2017)

• Cambodian NGO seels legal advice to force policy change on suspect Singapore sand trade (opens as pdf) 

​Mlex Market Insight (05 - January - 2017)

• S’pore law firm reportedly hired by Cambodian NGO to investigate S’pore’s sand imports / ​Mothership.sg (05 - January - 2017)

• Cambodian Sand Could Build a Foundation for Legal Action in Singapore
  

​Radio Free Asia (05 - January - 2017)

• ​Cambodian NGO engages local law firm to bring action against Singapore statutory boards and companies  
  

​The Independent (Singapore) (03 - January - 2017)

• ​Cambodian NGO engages local law firm to look into complicity of Singaporean Entities in ‘environmental destruction’ arising from Sand Mining ​
  

The Online Citizen (03 - January - 2017)

• Fresh sand controversy
  

Phnom Penh Post (02 January 2017)

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• ​Assembly Rejects Lawmaker’s Request for Sand Mining Info
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 - January - 2017)  Download as PDF

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Below is a compilation of media articles since for 2016 that talk about Mother Nature Cambodia's work, in 2016. ​For other years, click on any of the years below: 
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Cambodia's Dirty Business

Hakai Magazine (19 - April - 2017)

Official visits villagers whose homes collapsed near sand dredging site

The Phnom Penh Post ​(13 - June - 2017)

Groundbreaking Environmental Campaign Group Closed as Activists Arrested
Voice of America (20 - September - 2017) 

Cambodia bans sand exports to Singapore after environmental group pressure

The Straits Times ​(12 - July - 2017)

Sesan dam goes online, while PM dismisses environmental concerns

The Phnom Penh Post (26 - September - 2017)

The world is running out of a resource, and it's not oil. 

South China Morning Post

(31- December - 2017)

In Cambodia, Activists Risk Prison to Expose Ecological Scars of Sand Mining

UNDARK Magazine (25 - October - 2017)

Mother Nature Cambodia Inc.

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A wave of young female activists from Cambodia aim to shake up the patriarchy. Here’s how.

Southeast Asia Globe

(01- November - 2017)

Inquiry afoot after sand shipping video goes viral

The Phnom Penh Post
​(03 - May- 2017)

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Koh Kong activists charged
The Phnom Penh Post (14 - September - 2017)

Mother Nature Cambodia in the News (2017)

Cambodian Sand Could Build a Foundation for Legal Action in Singapore
Radio Free Asia (05 January 2017)

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​Singapore and Cambodia: A Relationship Built on Sand

The Diplomat (11 - January - 2017)