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Questions raised over land sale at lakeside
- 24 June 2014
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economic land concessions and plantations / Government / Human rights / Land / Law and judiciary / Laws and regulations / Provincial and local governments / Public land lease / Social development
- Adhoc / Boeung Kak / Chan Soveth / D’Lotus Development / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / HLH Group company / Housing Rights Task Force / Lao Meng Khin / Long Dimanche / Phnom Penh Municipality / Shukaku / Sia Phearum / World Bank
Developer Shukaku has sold off close to 1.3 hectares of land at the capital’s controversial Boeung Kak lake site to a Singapore-listed HLH Group company, according to a statement from HLH. HLH subsidiary D’Lotus Development purchased the land at Boeung Kak in Daun Penh district for ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/questions-raised-over-land-sale-lakeside
Stirrings from B Kak developer
- 28 September 2012
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Cities / Concessions / Economy and commerce / Investment / Land / Land tenure and land titling / Phnom Penh / Public land lease / Urban administration and development
- Boeng Kak community / Boeung Kak Lake / Chinese investors / Construction projects / development projects / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / Housing Rights Task Force / land / land disputes / Property Developers / satellite cities / Shukaku Erdos / Shukaku Inc
After months of inactivity that has fueled questions about the company’s future, Boeung Kak lake developer Shukaku Inc has launched a recruitment drive, calling for at least half a dozen architects, engineers and other employees. When contacted yesterday, Sok Heng Ly, an administrative employee listed in the ...
World Bank fund halt irks officials
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- aid / aid agencies / aid contributor / aid contributors / alumina mine / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak lake development / Boeung Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / cheap loans / Chinese aid / Chinese embassy / Chinese governmental documents / City Hall records / Contracts / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / country loans / Development / Embassy of Japan / Erdos / Erdos Hong Jun / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / Erdos Hong Jun Investment Company / funds / Government / Government officials / Governor Kep Chuktema / Housing / housing development / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Human Rights Task Force / Human Rights Taskforce secretariat Sia Phearum / human rights violations / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador / Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki / Japanese Embassy / Kep Chuktema / lakeside residents / land / Land dispute / land disputes / Lao Meng Khin / Lending / loans / local government officials / Masafumi Kuroki / Masafumi Kuroki the Japanese Ambassador / Mondulkiri / Mondulkiri Province / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh municipal Government / Relocation / residents of Boeung Kak lake / rights froups / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Sia Phearum / Sia Phearum secretariat of the Human Rights Task Force / Sihanoukville / suspension of funds / Tep Vanny / UN / United Nations / World Bank / World Bank central management and executive board / World Bank Country Director / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon
THE government expressed disappointment yesterday with the World Bank’s announcement that it had halted new country loans due to the ongoing land dispute at Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh and vowed to raise the issue with the bank’s executive board. “We are very dissatisfied ...
Defiance Greets World Bank's Funding Freeze
- 10 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Boeng Kak / Boeng Kak Lake / Boeng Kak Lake Area / Boeng Kak Lake residents / Boeng Kak land case / Cambodia / Cheam Yeap / Cheam Yeap chairman of the National Assembly's Commission on Economy / Chinese aid / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / country funding / CPP / CPP lawmaker Cheam Yeap / Development / donor / donors / Erdeos Hong Jun Investment Co / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / EU / European Union aid / evictions / finance / Finance Ministry / foreign investment board / foreign investor / foreign investors / Funding / funding freeze / Government / Government officials / Housing / Housing Rights Groups / Hun Sen / International Committees / Japanese aid / Korea / land / land titling / Lending / lending conditions / misappropriated money / Money / National Assembly / National Assembly's Commission on Economy / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / prime minister / proposed projects / Real estate / real estate project / Union / World Bank / World Bank Country Director / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon / WorldBank-supported projects
Government officials yesterday dismissed the World Bank’s recently revealed decision to freeze funding for new projects in Cambodia to protest a Phnom Penh real estate project that has forced thousand of families out of their homes. A housing rights group closely following the evictions said ...
World Bank Halts Funds Over Evictions
- 9 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- aid / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / Boeng Kak Lake / Boeng Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Chinese / Council of Ministers / CPP / CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin / EC / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / European Commission / eviction / evictions / forced evictions / Funding / funds / Government / Government officials / Housing Rights Groups / Independent Report / land / Land Law / land sector / Land titles / land titling / Lao Meng Khin / legal obligations / Lending / loan / on-site housing / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Rafael Dochao Moreno / Real estate / Resettlement / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Washington / World Bank
The World Bank has frozen funding to Cambodia, making good on its threat in March to reconsider aid levels to Cambodia in response to the ongoing eviction of thousands of Phnom Penh families from Boeng Kak lake, a Bank official confirmed yesterdaySome 3,000 families have ...