( ) -q-28- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “third-largest rice producer.” Cambodia has broken ground to build a $1.7 billion, China-funded canal to eventually link its capital Phnom Penh to the Gulf of Thailand. [CutID: <Cuts> CAMBODIA-CANAL-house-q-WEDam.mp3 Time: 28s Title: CAMBODIA-CANAL-house-q-WEDam Out-cue: third-largest rice producer] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. ————————- VERBATIM: The hope is that […]
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Cambodia hopes a new canal will boost trade. But it risks harming the Mekong that feeds millions.
( ) -q-28- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “third-largest rice producer.”
Cambodia has broken ground to build a $1.7 billion, China-funded canal to eventually link its capital Phnom Penh to the Gulf of Thailand.
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Time: 28s
Title: CAMBODIA-CANAL-house-q-WEDam
Out-cue: third-largest rice producer]
TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting.
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VERBATIM: The hope is that the 110 mile-long canal will cut transport costs and reduce dependence on Vietnamese ports. Cambodia’s plans to build the massive canal linking the Mekong to a port on on its own coast on the Gulf of Thailand are raising alarm that the project could devastate the river’s natural flood systems. They could also worsen droughts and deprive farmers on the delta of the nutrient-rich silt that has made Vietnam the world’s third-largest rice exporter.