More than a million people live on or around the lake, the world's largest inland fishery, but water levels have plummeted and fish stocks dwindled because of climate change and dams upstream on the Mekong.
Despite the government’s commitment to taking the bilateral relationship between Cambodia and the United States President-elect Joe Biden’s administration to a “greater height”, academics remain skeptical over both countries’ patience and compromise.
Cambodia suspended sending laborers to neighboring Thailand after the latter has reported a surge in COVID-19 infections in its Samut Sakhon province, some 300 km away from the border.
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A new sand dredging operation has commenced on the Tonle Bassac river in Phnom Penh within the past month, a local official said, with more than 90 companies now dredging rivers and streams in the country, according to the Mines and Energy Ministry.
