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World Bank fund halt irks officials
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
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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 ...
Girl freed from T&P training centre
- 8 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
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The Association of Cambodian Recruitment Agencies will consider kicking its most notorious member, T&P Co Ltd, out of the association if the company is found to have falsified documents to conceal the age of a 15-year-old girl rescued from its training centre last week. ACRA ...
Seized Wood Reported Stolen From R’kiri Park
- 2 August 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce
- Adhov / Casino / Chou Sopheak / Council of Ministers / Government officials / illegal logging / Keo Chanthan / Kra Nhoung wood / loggers / Lumber / luxury grade / Mine Developer / Pen Bonnar / Ratanakkiri Province / timber / Try Pheap Import Export Company / Virachey National Park / Wood
Seized and then sold wood has apparently been stolen from the Try PHeap Import Export Company which bought the lumber. The wood amounts to approximately 42 cubic meters and is priced at over $37,000. Blame for the theft is being cast everywhere including on the ...
Unions unite on draft law
- 8 July 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Economy and commerce / Law and judiciary / Unions
- Cambodia / Cambodian Confederation of Unions / Council of Ministers / Demonstrations / draft law / Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia / Labour Minister Vong Soth / Legislation / Ministry of Labour / National Assembly / Oum Mean / peaceful protests / protests / Rong Chhun / Strikes / Unions
7 unions working together have said that they refuse to support a union law that has been drafted as the government has ignored their recommendations. The potential legislation is said to be prohibitively restrictive and the unions have said they will boycott by organizing peaceful ...
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