The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 533
“In a new report, a UK charity organization reveals the facts and the impact of the use of fuel produced from plants.
“The European Union wants to reduce the emission of carbon dioxide from vehicles which use diesel fuel, and asks that by 2020, up to ten percent of all means of transportation should use fuel produced from crops.
“But Oxfam warns that farmers will face to be forced off their farmland, which is to be converted for industrial agricultural production, i.e. for the production of natural fuel because of the present biofuel bonanza.
“The report stated that the demand will increase, because the European Union plans to import biofuel which is produced from natural cereals, even from palm sugar, or from other fuel which is being refined from palm oil from developing countries.
“A number of big companies and governments from Brazil, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Tanzania is now urgently discussing how to overcome this type of demand for biofuel from the European Union, which threatens and forces poor farmers to leave their farmland. It can lead to the destruction of their livelihood, introduce labor exploitation, and all this affects farmers’ food basis and the price of goods.
“It is necessary for the European Union to review their natural crop fuel policy – the biofuel policy – and to consider means for poverty reduction.
“The European Commission said that they are considering what to do in order to safeguard that its biofuel policy does not have such an impact.
“The environment analyst Mr. Roger Harrabin of the British Broadcasting Corporation said that the environment will be impacted due to such production of biofuel from crops, such as cereals.
“Scientists also said that a huge quantity of energy is required to produce biofuel, if it is to replace the use of traditional fuel for vehicles. They added that an increasingly negative trend may be started, because forests, which hold back rain water, will be continually reduced to be replaced with crops for producing biofuel.
“Mr. Robert Bailey, who is a policy advisor to Oxfam, said that the production of biofuel to supply the European Union is nothing but creating ever more serious problems for poor people.” Kampuchea Thmey, Vol. 6, #1484, 4-5.11.2007
Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Monday, 5 November 2007
Apyea Kret, Vol.6, #63, 5.11.2007
Samdech Hun Sen’s Government Should Open Eyes to Look at Commercials of All Kinds of Alcohol on Television and Radio
New Traffic Law Cannot Be Effective before Powerful People Respect It First
Chuoy Khmer, Vol.1, #17, 5-6.11.2007
Keo Remy [Vice-President of Human Rights Party]: Human Rights Party Will Lead Citizens to Demonstrate Forcefully to Demand Decrease of Prices of Gasoline and of Other Goods
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1484, 4-5.11.2007
Oxfam Warns of Increasing Poverty Due to Biofuel Plantations
Cambodia Will Become a Bridge for North Korea to Outside Markets
Military Council of Myanmar Expels Senior UN Official [Charles Petrie] from the Country [because of his critical statement]
More Than 100 UN Peacekeepers [from Sri Lanka] Involved with Rape in Haiti
Nearly One Million People Have No Accommodation because of Floods in Mexico
Khmer Machas Srok, Vol.1, #50, 5.11.2007
Co-Prosecutors of Khmer Rouge Tribunal Hold International Conference to Exchange Experience on Trials of Serious Crimes
Koh Santepheap, Vol.40, #6184, 5.11.2007
Man Rapes His 13-Year-Old Daughter [he is arrested – Krakor, Pursat]
Man Kills His Wife for Not Giving Him Riel 500,000 [approx. US$125 – to travel to find a job in Thailand – he is arrested – Kamchay Mear, Prey Veng]
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.14, #3303, 5.11.2007
Ministry of Interior Creates Another Department for Intelligence Gathering
Rasmei Angkor, Vol.14, #1243, 5.11.2007
Ministry of Royal Palace Denies Creation of New Party by Samdech Euv [Father King – as rumor had said]
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4428, 4-5.11.2007
Minister of Cambodian Agriculture and Minister of North Korean Agriculture Affirmed Increased Cooperation
Cambodia Will Link Railway to Thailand When It Receives Funds from the Asian Development Bank
No Action against Those Who Pay Other People [to cut trees to claim land], Forest Crimes Cannot Be Combated [about release of 15 workers who were paid to cut trees to claim land – Sihanoukville]
All Together More Than 300 Chainsaws Confiscated in Stung Treng
Samleng Yuvachun Khmer, Vol.14, #3177, 4-5.11.2007
Samdech Krom Preah: If Sam Rainsy… Does Not Join with Other Parties, Khmer History and Khmer People Will Condemn Him
Sralanh Khmer, Vol.3, #543, 4-5.11.2007
[Minister of Information] Khieu Kanharith Says if Samdech Euv [Father King] Really Wants to Enter Politics, He Has to Resign as Preah Mohavirak Khsatr [Great Heroic King]
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