Wealthy residents protest lake reclamation
About 30 residents of a planned community on the eastern outskirts of Phnom Penh gathered around the picturesque lake that forms the center of their neighborhood Monday to prevent its developer, a former opposition lawmaker, from reclaiming the land to construct condos. The residents, many of whom are dual citizens who left the country prior to the rise of the Khmer Rouge and have returned to retire, said they blocked a truck from delivering sand to fill in the tree-lined lake that stretches between the houses of Borey Prek Eng. …
Khuon Narim and Alex Willemyns
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