City officials have rejected the applications of 54 families to be resettled on a land development site at Boeung Kak lake. Phnom Penh authorities are in the process of assessing land titles for hundreds of families, who have been promised resettlement on 12 hectares of the 133-hectare site
Activists working to protect the massive Prey Lang forest in northeastern Cambodia have delivered a petition to embassies, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank on Friday, urging the international community to help them. Villagers living near the forest say their livelihoods there are being threatened by continuous government concessions to private rubber and other companies. The petition follows a demonstration in Phnom Penh on Thursday, in which 100 villager were swept up by police for handing out fliers in public, in what authorities said was a threat to public security
Representatives of residents at the contentious Boeung Kak lake development site say the World Bank’s announcement it was freezing funding to Cambodia marks a major push for a resolution to the impasse. The World Bank has said it will not release any more funding to Cambodia until government authorities find a way to reconcile a dispute between thousands of families and a development company headed by a ruling-party senator
The World Bank said Tuesday it will stop loaning money to Cambodia until the government reaches a deal with thousands of residents who are under threat of eviction in a huge development project.
“Cambodia can sustain rapid growth,” said the World Bank Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, Dr. Justin Yifu Lin, as he finished a three-day visit to Cambodia from September 6 to 8, 2010. “Cambodia has many unique advantages, such as dynamic, growing neighbors, young and abundant labor forces, and natural resources to generate growth.” During [...]
Three New Projects Worth $71.5 million to Help Govt. Fight Poverty The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors endorsed, in May 2008, the extension of the Bank’s Country Assistance Strategy (CAS) for Cambodia until 2011, citing strong progress on reform efforts and the government’s commitment to the reform agenda. The decision to extend the [...]
Central to the Cambodia Government’s strategy to promote new and sustainable sources of economic growth and improve living standards are the diversification and deeping of the low human resource base, and it is recognized that the foundation for this will be the provision of quality basic education for all. The Government’s education sector program has [...]
More than one hundred participants representing government ministries, donors, civil society groups, and the media attended a one-day workshop at Sunway Hotel in Phnom Penh on May 3, 2007 to discuss the Ministry of National Assembly-Senate Relations and Inspection (MoNASRI) component in the proposed Demand for Good Governance (DFGG) Project. The DFGG project is being [...]
Phnom Penh, May 22, 2007—with resolution of the crisis surrounding the World Bank’s leadership, the Bank’s Country Director for Cambodia, Ian Porter, has called for a continuation of the organization’s important work in the field. “Now that the Bank’s leadership issue has been resolved and is behind us, we can focus all our efforts on [...]