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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 ...
Complaint over violence
- 4 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Economy and commerce / Human rights / Social development
- AK-47 / Cambodia / Cassava / Chea Sim / Cheam Yeap / Farm Land / Grass / Heng Samrin / Human Rights Commission for Complaint and Observation / Hun Sen / Kampong Speu Province / Kang Heang / Master International Group Co Ltd / National Assembly / Phnom Penh / Plantations / Police / Prime Minister Hun Sen / Sau Pom / violence
Twenty-nine community representatives from Kampong Speu’s Phnom Sruoch district travelled in person to the National Assembly building in Phnom Penh yesterday to file a complaint against provincial governor Kang Heang and other officials, accusing them of “robbing a total of 950 hectares of farm land”. ...
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