Police Block Families of Mother Nature Activists During March
The Cambodia Daily (01 April 2016)

​Cambodia digs into sand mining industry as beaches and crabs vanish
Yahoo News / Thomson Reuters

(03 - November - 2016)

The Fight over Grains of Sand

Die Welt (28 - August - 2016)

​Ministry Claims ‘No Irregularity’ in Huge Sand Export Gap

The Cambodia Daily (16 - December - 2016)​

• Minister faces music on sand
  

Phnom Penh Post (16 - December - 2016)

• ​Cambodia Singapore sand trade figures prompt $750m question as
  

corruption suspicions mount (opens as pdf file)

Mlex Market Insight (16 Dec 2016)

• ​Cambodia presses for answers on Singapore sand trade discrepancy
  

(opens as pdf file) Mlex Market Insight (14 December 2016)

• ​Minister to be grilled on sand export discrepancy
  

Phnom Penh Post (14 - December - 2016)

• ​​Ongeremde Zandwinning bedreigt Cambodjaanse natuur (opens as pdf file)
  

Trouw (12 December 2016)

• ​Singapore Silent Amid Sand Smuggling Claims
  

The Cambodia Daily (07 - December - 2016)​

• Assembly Wants Answers From Mines Minister / អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ
  

​The Cambodia Daily (07 - December - 2016)​

• ​Mixed feelings toward dredging-fuelled fund
  

​Phnom Penh Post (07 - December - 2016)

• Ministry to be grilled on sand exports
  

​Phnom Penh Post (02 - December - 2016)

• ​Ministry Asks NGOs to Help Monitor Sand Trade
  

​The Cambodia Daily (26 - November - 2016)​

• Sand Extraction in Koh Kong Province Halted, Ministry Says 
  

​The Cambodia Daily (17 - November - 2016)​  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ - Download in PDF

• ​NGOs Ask Government to Suspend Sand Dredging
  

The Cambodia Daily (12 - November - 2016)  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

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• ​Dredging by the numbers
  

Phnom Penh Post (07 - November - 2016)

• Ministry: If There is No Sand There will be No Construction Sector
  

Khmer Times (07 - November - 2016)

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• ​Cambodia digs into sand mining industry as beaches and crabs vanish
  

Yahoo News / Thomson Reuters (03 - November - 2016)

• Illegal Sand Dredging Eradicated, Mines Ministry Claims
  

​The Cambodia Daily (03 - November - 2016)  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

• Dredging for answers
  

Phnom Penh Post (03 - November - 2016)

• Sand export answers sought
  

Phnom Penh Post (02 - November - 2016)

• ​Ministry Blames ‘Ineffective Practices’ for Over $400M in Missing Sand
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 - November - 2016)  /  អានជាភាសាខ្មែរ

• Cambodia's villagers lose ground – literally – to Singapore's expansion
  

Christian Science Monitor (21 - October - 2016) 

• ​Singapore’s data mirrors UN’s on Cambodia’s sand export numbers
  

Phnom Penh Post (19 - October - 2016)

• ​​​​​​​Gov’t slams UN sand figures

Phnom Penh Post (28 - September - 2016)

• Sand Export Figures Disputed
  

Khmer Times (28 - September - 2016)

• ​Dredging figures do not add up
  

​Phnom Penh post (27 - September - 2016)

• The Fight over Grains of Sand
  

​Die Welt (28 - August - 2016)

• Three Cambodian activists convicted and heavily fined — but free
  

Mongabay (06- July -2016)

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• ​​Koh Kong dredging activists found guilty for 'threats' 

Phnom Penh Post (01- July -2016)

• ​​Video Evidence Presented on Day 2 of Mother Nature Trial
  

The Cambodia Daily (29- June -2016)

• Mother Nature hearing concludes in Koh Kong
  

Phnom Penh Post (29- June -2016)

• Koh Kong sand-dredging opponents on trial over alleged threats
  

Phnom Penh Post (28- June -2016)

• ​Mother Nature Trial Begins in Koh Kong
  

The Cambodia Daily (28- June -2016)

• Sand dredging licences secretly soaring
  

Phnom Penh Post (25- May -2016)

• ​​UN Asked to Help Imprisoned Rights Activists 
  

The Cambodia Daily (16 April 2016)

• Ministry Cancels Visa for Deported Spanish Activist
  

The Cambodia Daily (11 April 2016)

• Gonzalez-Davidson's e-visa no good, Foreign Ministry says
  

Phnom Penh Post (11 April 2016)

• Deported Spanish Activist Gets Tourist Visa; Return Uncertain
  

The Cambodia Daily (08 April 2016)

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• Truckloads of police sent to stop Mother Nature petition
  

Phnom Penh Post (01 April 2016)

• Court Drops Charges Against Two Mother Nature Monks 
  

The Cambodia Daily (30 March 2016)

• Charges dropped against Mother Nature monk duo
  

Phnom Penh Post (29 March 2016)

• ​Areng activist guilty of ‘forest crimes’, released on suspended sentence;
  

Phnom Penh Post (04 March 2016)

• Environmental Campaigner Convicted of Forestry Crime;
  

The Cambodia Daily (04 March 2016)

• Hun Manet Inaugurates Areng Valley Schools;
  

The Cambodia Daily (02 March 2016)

• Activist Appeals to Hun Sen For Visa to Attend His Trial;
  

The Cambodia Daily (25 February 2016)

• Trial of Areng activist starts in Koh Kong;
  

Phnom Penh Post (18 February 2016)

• Koh Kong sand dredging impact studies due;
  

​​Phnom Penh Post (17 February 2016)

• Gonzalez-Davidson charges confirmed;
  

Phnom Penh Post (06 February 2016)

• ​​It’s time for me to return - Op-ed by Gonzalez Davidson;
  

Phnom Penh Post (05 February 2016)

• NGO Accuses Sand Dredging Company of Illegal Detention;
  

The Cambodia Daily (12 January 2016)

• Two more months of questions for activists;
  

Phnom Penh Post (08 January 2016)​​​

Mother Nature Activists Found Guilty, Freed 
The Cambodia Daily (02- July -2016)

Ministry Blames ‘Ineffective Practices’ for Over $400M in Missing Sand
The Cambodia Daily
(02 - November - 2016)

Mother Nature Cambodia in the News (2016)

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The World’s Disappearing Sand

The New York Times (23 - June - 2016)

Sand wars: Singapore's growth comes at the environmental expense of its neighbours
Sidney Morning Herald (26 February 2016)

Minister faces music on sand 
Phnom Penh Post (16 December 2016)

Sand Extraction in Koh Kong Province Halted, Ministry Says 
The Cambodia Daily

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