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.
Country director Annette Dixon says the World Bank has not made any loans since December and will not approve any more until Phnom Penh agrees on compensation with lakeside residents.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday urged Cambodia to confront its troubled past by ensuring the Khmer Rouge are brought to justice for crimes against humanity in the 1970s and improve its current human rights record.
Around 20 Cambodians gathered outside the UN offices in New York on
Saturday, to demonstrate against Prime Minsiter Hun Sen ahead of
meetings with US and Asean officials.
