1.   Timber is also exported via Laos, Thailand and Vietnam.

2.   In booming mill towns like this one, dealers openly resell, copy or simply counterfeit the government certificates needed to export timber.

3.   They informed the Thai leader that effective immediately, timber could be exported only by the Defense Ministry.

4.   Cambodian naval vessels often encounter smugglers trying to illegally export timber by sea, and Thai and Vietnamese fishermen poaching in Cambodian waters.

5.   Datin Loo Chooi Ting, the newly-appointed executive director of Innovest, said the timber will be exported to US, Europe and Japan.

6.   The finding highlighted the vast amount of revenue lost to the government each year due to corrupt members of the military and government who export timber illegally.

7.   The timber will be exported to Japan as woodchip, the official said.