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World Bank stops funds for Cambodia over evictions

29 April 2015
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

Length of Time Taken to Export Goods Declines

4 November 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Economy and commerce
Agriculture Development International / Cambodia / CamControl / Developed Countries / Doing Business Report / Hun Sen / Ministry of Commerce / Prime Minister Hun Sen / SE Asia / Southeast Asia / Thailand / Tim Purcell / Trade Procedures / UN / UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific / United Nations / WB / World Bank

The time it takes to export goods has fallen 40 percent according to the UN. Southeast Asia has seen an improvement in the average time it takes for trade procedures to be completed, dropping to 19 days, though this is still three times longer than ...

Climate change on agenda

2 December 2013
The Phnom Penh Post
Economy and commerce / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Social development
ADB / Alan Michaud / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Cambodia / Climate Change / Economic Development / Environmentalists / Greater Mekong Subregion / Greenhouse Gas Emissions / Hun Sen / hydroelectric dams / Ministry of Environment / Mok Mareth / National Assembly / Power security / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Southeast Asia

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday called for greater regional cooperation to tackle a range of environmental problems in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, but did not specifically address the threat posed by dams. “I call on all countries in the Greater Mekong Sub-region to place more emphasis ...

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2011072950721/National-news/climate-change-on-agenda.html

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