Boeung Trabek residents resist offers

Residents of Phnom Penh’s Boeung Trabek area yesterday balked at the options to either pay the government for land certificates or sell their land to the municipality during a forum attended by local authorities, area inhabitants and housing rights officials. City officials earlier this year said they planned on evicting those living in the area in an effort to restore the lake, whose capacity they say has been diminished by encroaching houses. Lake restoration, they said, will reduce flooding in the capital. …

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