Pop Star Preap Sovath Gets Controversial Boeng Tamok Lake Land
Around 3 hectares of Phnom Penh’s rapidly disappearing Boeng Tamok lake have been transferred to a pop star famous on the city’s billboards.
Mech Dara Sep 1, 4:50 pm
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Around 3 hectares of Phnom Penh’s rapidly disappearing Boeng Tamok lake have been transferred to a pop star famous on the city’s billboards.
More than 300 village residents from Koh Kong province protested at a district hall on Monday, asking for a social land concession to resolve their longstanding land conflict with a sugarcane plantation.
The Land Management Ministry has announced it will aim to distribute 30,000 hectares to the country’s poor in the third phase of a World Bank-funded project, which previously came amid controversy over the bank suspending loans to Cambodia over forced evictions.
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