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Jan 12, 2011
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China aid floods Cambodia
By Marwaan Macan-Markar BANGKOK - A steady rise of new dams in Cambodia is becoming a platform for the country's prime minister to showcase where the Southeast Asian kingdom's ties with China - a late arrival among Cambodia's foreign aid and development partners - is headed. "The hydropower dam is just one of the numerous achievements under the cooperation between Cambodia and China," Premier Hun Sen said in December at a ceremony in a remote Southwestern province of the country where the 338 megawatt Russei Chrum Krom hydropower dam is being built. This US$500 million dam - being built by the Huadian Corp, one of China's biggest state-owned power companies - is the largest of
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five Chinese dams under construction in energy-poor Cambodia, where only a fifth of the population of nearly 14.5 million have access to electricity. Chinese companies are already carrying out feasibility studies for four more dams to be built, say environmentalists and grassroots activists worried about what such future hydropower projects portend. "China plays a very important role in investment and development ...