World Bank approves US$93 million loan for Cambodia; govt announces nine more imported virus cases

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PHNOM PENH, June 27 (Xinhua): The World Bank has approved a US$93 million credit for the Cambodia Land Allocation for Social and Economic Development Project III (LASED III), said its press statement on Saturday.

The project will help improve land tenure security and access to infrastructure and agricultural and social services for landless and poor smallholders and indigenous communities in Cambodia, the statement said.

The project will cover 71 sites and communities in all provinces in Cambodia except capital Phnom Penh, the statement said. Through the World Bank's LASED and LASED II projects begun since 2008, Cambodia has allocated 17,000 hectares of residential and agriculture farmland to more than 5,000 landless and land-poor families, and 3,360 families have already received land titles, the statement said. In another development, Cambodia on Saturday confirmed nine new imported Covid-19 cases, raising the total number of infections to 139, according to a Health Ministry's press statement.

 

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