Powering up on coal but at what cost?
Publication date 21 January 2021 | 23:27 | ICT
The haste to expand economic growth and achieve rural electrification has drawn Chinese interest and though China is closing down fossil fuel plants in its country as emissions rise, Cambodia prefers to look the other way
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