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Britain’s Fraud Office Probes Biofuel Scheme
- 14 June 2012
- The Cambodia Daily
- Agriculture and fishing / Biofuel crops / Crop products and commodities / Economy and commerce / Energy / Energy policy and administration / Environment and natural resources / Generation and distribution facilities / Investment / Renewable energy production
- Banteay Meanchey Province / biodiesel / biofuel company / Biofuel Scheme / Britain / Cambodian plantations / Fraud / funds / green energy / interest rate returns / investigation / Investment / Investors / jatropha / jatropha plantation / London-based / Plantations / profit / retirement funds / Serious Fraud Office (SFO) / SFO / Sustainable Agro Energy / Sustainable Agro Energy PLC / U.K.
A biofuel company is currently under investigation for fraud in the U.K. after millions of dollars of investors’ money was spent on a jatropha plantation in Banteay Meanchey province that never produced even a single drop of biodiesel. The company, London-based Sustainable Agro Energy PLC, had ...
Arbitrator Rules On Future of Gold Tower 42
- 12 June 2012
- The Cambodia Daily
- Economy and commerce / Investment / Labor arbitration
- Arbitrators / build / building / company / contract / damages / funds / Gold Tower / Hanil Engineering and Construction Co. Ltd. / Jipyong & Jisung / Korean Commercial Arbitration Board / lawyer / Monivong Boulevard / Phnom Penh / raise funds / Seoul / skyscraper / South Korean aid / Yon Woo Cambodia / Yoo Jeoung-hoon
Arbitrators in Seoul have ruled that the company contracted to build the $240 million Gold Tower 42 project in Phnom Penh was in breach of contract after failing to raise funds to finish the project, which resulted in work stopping almost two years ago, a ...
Foreign donors slow on giving flood aid
- 18 October 2011
- The Cambodia Daily
- Aid and development / Bilateral development assistance / Chinese aid / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Disaster preparedness and emergency response policy and administration / Disasters / Environment and natural resources / Floods / Japanese aid / Non-DAC members
- Australian aid / Chinese aid / direct assistance / donors / flooding / foreign aid / funds / Japanese aid / overseas aid / South Korean aid / US
As tens of thousands of families continue to struggle with ongoing flooding, delays are still hampering the provision of overseas aid, with some donors holding back on distributing funds. China flew in two planes, laden with supplies worth $8 million, over the weekend and the South ...
Rail project in ADB sights
- 6 September 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Agriculture and fishing / Aid and development / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / Economy and commerce / Infrastructure / Land / Multilateral development assistance / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
- ADB / Asian Development Bank (ADB) / AusAid / BABC / Bridges Across Borders Cambodia / Cambodia / compensation / Council of Ministers / Eang Vuthy / Ee Sarom / Food prices / funds / Housing Rights Task Force / implementation / Issues / Khieu Sopheak / Koy Kuong / Ministry of Foreign Affairs / Ministry of Interior / Monitoring / NGOs / Nouth Sa An / Phay Siphan / Putu Kamayana / railway rehabilitation project / Railways / Resettlement Plan / Sahmakum Teang Tnaut / STT
The Asian Development Bank said yesterday problems with a railway rehabilitation project – funded by the bank and AusAID – identified by a local NGO that was suspended by the government last month “may require further investigation or analysis”. In July, STT released a report ...
World Bank fund halt irks officials
- 10 August 2011
- The Phnom Penh Post
- Aid and development / Economy and commerce / Multilateral development assistance / World Bank
- aid / aid agencies / aid contributor / aid contributors / alumina mine / Annette Dixon / Annette Dixon World Bank Country Director / bank / Boeung Kak Lake / Boeung Kak lake development / Boeung Kak Lake residents / Cambodia / Cambodian Government / cheap loans / Chinese aid / Chinese embassy / Chinese governmental documents / City Hall records / Contracts / Council of Ministers / Council of Ministers spokesman Phay Siphan / country loans / Development / Embassy of Japan / Erdos / Erdos Hong Jun / Erdos Hong Jun Investment / Erdos Hong Jun Investment Company / funds / Government / Government officials / Governor Kep Chuktema / Housing / housing development / Human Rights / human rights abuses / Human Rights Task Force / Human Rights Taskforce secretariat Sia Phearum / human rights violations / Japanese aid / Japanese Ambassador / Japanese Ambassador Masafumi Kuroki / Japanese Embassy / Kep Chuktema / lakeside residents / land / Land dispute / land disputes / Lao Meng Khin / Lending / loans / local government officials / Masafumi Kuroki / Masafumi Kuroki the Japanese Ambassador / Mondulkiri / Mondulkiri Province / Phay Siphan / Phay Siphan Council of Ministers spokesman / Phnom Penh / Phnom Penh municipal Government / Relocation / residents of Boeung Kak lake / rights froups / Senator Lao Meng Khin / Shukaku Inc / Sia Phearum / Sia Phearum secretariat of the Human Rights Task Force / Sihanoukville / suspension of funds / Tep Vanny / UN / United Nations / World Bank / World Bank central management and executive board / World Bank Country Director / World Bank Country Director Annette Dixon
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 ...
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 ...