Last of Boeng Kak land titles still weeks away

The last of the nearly 800 families from Phnom Penh's Boeng Kak community who are in line for land titles will not receive their long-awaited ownership records for another "two or three weeks", a city official said yesterday. The families were spared eviction at the hands of CPP Senator Lao Meng Khin's controversial real estate project in August when Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered that 12.44 hectares of the development site be set aside for the last remaining families who had fought their eviction...