Roeun Van

Roeun Van is the Weekend Editor at The Cambodia Daily—Cambodia's first English-language daily newspaper which was established in Phnom Penh in 1993. He joined the paper in 1997, and has covered agriculture, aquaculture and other connected environment issues, especially illegal logging, forestland clearing and the over-exploitation of the country's rivers and freshwater fish stocks. His reporting also covered land disputes, fishery problems, the destruction of flooded forest in Tonle Sap Lake and the granting of massive economic land concessions to private companies for rubber plantations.