City Hall Moves to Stop State Land Swaps
In an effort to put a stop to land swaps in Phnom Penh, City Hall has called on state institutions with offices in Chamkar Mon district’s Tonle Bassac commune to register or re-register for land titles, a municipal official said Sunday. … A letter signed by Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong on November 25 states that 19 government properties in Tonle Bassac are without land titles, including the National Assembly, the Senate, the National Police Commissariat, the Fisheries Administration and seven ministries. The list also includes three pagodas, three schools and Kab Ko market. The directive was issued on the same day that Mr. Dimanche announced that the municipality’s department of public works and transport would be moved from near Olympic Stadium to new offices built by the Khun Sea Development Group on Russei Keo district’s Chroy Changva peninsula. Prime Minister Hun Sen has repeatedly denounced land swaps, in which private companies receive coveted state property in urban centers in exchange for constructing new, purpose-built government offices on cheaper tracts of land. …
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