Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
About 150 artists have gathered outside the Tonle Bassac Theater in Phnom Penh on Wednesday morning to protest the moving of the theater to a new location, and they are also protesting the fact that the Ministry of Culture provided them only a meager compensation amount of $300 each. The Cambodia Daily reported that the artists were told to move out of the theater by the end of the month, however, the artists demanded $700 each in compensation, just like what the Ministry of Culture paid to each employee of the Royal University of Fine Arts (URBA) when this group relocated themselves from Phnom Penh to Russei Keo district in 2005. In 2005, the Ministry of Culture signed an agreement to swap the land occupied by the burnt theater to Kith Meng, chairman of the Mobitel telephone company, in exchange for the renovation this building which was gutted by fire in 1994.
1 comment:
Is it a form of bribery? Why do the government have to pay? Where did they get the money to pay these people?
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