But, until then, they want the government to proceed as it once agreed to do: allow the cut at the stipulated level, and stop stalling every time the environmentalists ask it to.

ECONOMIST: The logging industry

Critics, generally from business, warn that together these revisions threaten to release a torrent of litigation as suppliers, customers, environmentalists and others ask the courts to reverse company decisions.

ECONOMIST: A proposed new bill would invite judges into the boardroom

ENVIRONMENTALISTS, scouring Cambodia's jungles for evidence of illegal logging, ask a passing farmer where trees are being cut down.

ECONOMIST: Just chopping it down