Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Phnom Penh lake residents given reprieve

Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Robert Carmichael
Australia Network News

The Cambodian Government has struck a deal with lakeside residents in Phnom Penh who were facing eviction from land tipped for development.

On Tuesday, the government said 1,000 families under threat of eviction in the capital would now get land at the site.

The deal comes after the World Bank said last week it had frozen lending until the government reached a deal with residents of Boeung Kak lake in central Phnom Penh.

The 133-hectare site is being developed by a Chinese firm and the company of a ruling party senator.


Many of the families have lived at the site for decades and were unfairly denied title to their land ahead of the controversial development deal.

Two thousand other families have already been evicted.

Earlier this year the World Bank, which had funded a nationwide land-titling effort, admitted it had failed the lake's residents.

7 comments:

The world should have ONE GOVERNMENT said...

China is the world richest with all cash to burn her people, but for 1.3 billion people why not having her internal market?

Anonymous said...

Hi Everyone,

One of KI-Media member who has his name in Facebook as Khmer Sovannaphumi but his real name is Pang Sokhoeun, former political asylum and now living in Sweden. He always copies news from here to post in his facebook profile to promote himself, but right now, he tries to remove and blocked anyone who dares to reveal his con activity particular he tries to hide what he has cheated his wife (Sreypov Chea) by having a girlfriend (Sokunthear Sam) behind his wife back. Now, his girlfriend had run way from him after she knew his cheating.

A con man Pang Sokhoeun as well as KI-Media like to insult to the government officers who have affairs, but himself does even worse than other people. What ashame!

Anonymous said...

When one person had posted in KI-Media and accused that a con man Pang Sokhoeun is a brother of Som Ek (former Chief of Tiger's head sign guerilla, who was arrested and put in prison by Cambodian government) during that time, a cheater Pang Sokhoeun came to deny in his blogs immediately and had pointed the blame to Mr. Sourn Serey Rotha, but this time, he has bury his head in the sand because he cannot deny the truth that he has cheated his wife. Right now, all he can do is removed and blocked anyone who dared to reveal his cheating.

Anonymous said...

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វាដកពីខ្មែរតែឲ្យទៅយួនទេ ហើយវាថាការពារទន្លេសាប បើការពារម្តេចមិន
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Anonymous said...

Congrats to the people of Boueng Kak for a long fought to keep your rightful home. It's only you that will make a different in your lives but we must do it a way that we all benefit.

I also congrats to the gov't of Cambodia that finally got the will to do it for its own people and not for a few individuals.

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

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