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World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions

9 August 2011
Reuters
Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Environment and natural resources / Multilateral development assistance / Phnom Penh / World Bank
agricultural projects / Agriculture & Agri-business / aid / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Beijing / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak Lake Area / Cambodia / Cambodian tycoons / central government / Chinese aid / developer / development money / developments / documents / donor countries / eviction / evictions / Farmland / FDI / financing / firm / forced eviction / forced evictions / foreign aid / foreign direct investment / foreign firms / Government / Housing / human rights groups / Inner Mongolia Erdos Hongjun Investment Corp / Khmer Rouge / lake / land / land management / land ownership / legal documents / Lending / loan / loans / local government / metal processing / mining / Mining projects / on-site housing / Phnom Penh / Power Generation / prime real estate / Real estate / real estate developments / residents of Boeung Kak lake / Southeast Asia / urban areas / World Bank / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon

The World Bank said on Tuesday it had stopped providing loans to Cambodia and would not resume lending until the government did something to help hundreds of families facing eviction from land around a lake in the country’s capital, Phnom Penh. “The World Bank’s last ...

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/09/cambodia-worldbank-idUSL3E7J920D20110809

Seoul looks abroad for farmland

11 July 2011
The Phnom Penh Post
Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce
arable land / Brazil / Cambodia / Farmland / grain / grain trading / Investment / Russia / South Korean aid / Ukraine

The South Korean government is looking to procure farmland aboard, approximately 380,000 hectares by the year 2018. The government is providing assistance to companies that lease arable land or buy stakes in overseas operations and are looking for such potential in Cambodia as well as ...

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