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One of Cambodia's least favorite whistleblowers from one of Cambodia's least favorite ecological NGOs is probably in deep doo doo now. Full story at

http://m.phnompenhpost.com/node/97355

Yesterday afternoon, the chief of Koh Kong police’s minor offence office, Lay Meng Laing, said the pair were arrested and were en route to his office. He said he did not know why they were arrested.

“The provincial police chief ordered me to wait and get the two,” Meng Laing said.

Always amazes me how very open corruption and miss use of state forces is in this country.

If the figures in the story are correct, the good senator's aptly named 'special economic zone' has lined his pocket with $35,624,395.00 ... not bad.

Breaking: Mother Nature stricken from registry
15 September 2017
The Interior Ministry today announced it had stricken critical environmental NGO Mother Nature from its registry, effective immediately, just days after the group called attention to major discrepancies in silica sand exports to Taiwan.

In a letter disclosing the move, the ministry said the NGO had requested the removal of its own accord in a letter from Mother Nature head Prum Thomacheat on August 23 requesting dissolution of the environmental group.
Deported Mother Nature co-founder Alejandro Davidson-Gonzalez said today that the request had been prompted by constant harassment of two other co-founders, Thomacheat and fellow monk Sok Chantra.

Today’s letter, signed by Interior Ministry Secretary of State Pol Lim, says that the ministry had decided to remove Mother Nature from the government’s list of NGOs, thereby invalidating any documents given to the group permitting its operations in Cambodia...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/b ... n-registry