World Bank Denies It Will Fund Project in Cambodia

The World Bank has denied a report that it is preparing to fund a new education project in Cambodia, 10 months after the bank froze all new lending to Cambodia to protest evictions and Phnom Penh’s Boeng Kak lake. … In The, an undersecretary of state at the Education Ministry, said on Monday that a new World Bank-funded project in the education sector is in the pipeline. … However, World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon denied that the bank is even in talks over new funding. ….