Gov’t Continues to Privatize State Properties
The privatization of state-owned land continued last month with several large government- owned plots in Phnom Penh transferred to state-private property, according to a sub-decree signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen.
According to the document signed May 24, the state-owned properties, measuring 40,998 square meters in total, belonged to the ministries of social affairs, agriculture and telecommunications.
The two largest properties to be privatized under the order were the Social Affairs Ministry’s 19,572 square-meter youth rehabilitation center in Choam Chao commune, Dangkao district, and the ministry’s 12,923 square-meter handicapped vocational training center in Sen Sok district’s Phnom Penh Thmei commune. …
Removing the properties “from the state property inventory was under procedural mana- gement ” by the ministries involved, Phnom Penh municipality and the Ministry of Finance, the sub-decree said. Chhay Vanna, undersecretary of state at the Social Affairs Ministry, said yesterday that he was unaware of the privatization of ministry property. …
