City hall announces development plans for new road

8 September 2016
Khmer Times
Phnom Penh / Roads and bridges / Urban administration and development
Alserkal Grand Mosque / Cambodian Association of Muslims / Pa Socheatvong / Phnom Penh City Hall / Van Matt

City Hall yesterday announced the preparation of infrastructure for a controversial road construction project in the Boeung Kak area near the Alserkal Grand Mosque, the largest mosque in the Kingdom, to avoid traffic jams and flooding in the area. The pilot project, inveiled in 2012, plans to pave a road from Tuol Kork to Monivong Boulevard through the mosque’s land, with City Hall stating that the plan had been approved by landholders Osman Hassan, secretary of state at the Ministry of Labor, and Van Matt, president of the Cambodian Association of Muslims. ...

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