The Borei Keila social land concession: the Government’s commitment to housing Phnom Penh’s urban poor – new apartments for families in exchange for land given to commercial developers. Borei Keila was the first of four social land concessions in Phnom Penh and was meant to be the model alternative to the eviction and off-site relocation [...]
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Cambodia needs a neutral police force
November 20th, 2008 
Cambodian News Hong Kong, China — Cambodia’s national police commissioner, Gen. Hok Lundy, was killed in a helicopter crash on Nov. 9, Cambodia’s National Day. Hok was a member of both the Central Committee and Standing Committee of the ruling Cambodian People’s Party and a close ally and senior advisor to Prime Minister Hun Sen, whose son [...]
Businesses wary in Cambodia
October 16th, 2008 Cambodian News Thai businesses have put their Cambodian operations on full alert after troops of both countries exchanged gunfire and rocket fire along the border near the disputed Preah Vihear temple, leaving at least one soldier dead. Foreign Minister Sompong Amornvivat yesterday urged Thai nationals in Cambodia to leave at once, and said the military had an [...]
House divided in Cambodia
October 6th, 2008 Cambodian News A CAMBODIAN couple have circumvented the country’s corrupt and expensive court system in a divorce case by literally dividing their house in half. The Koh Santepheap newspaper last week featured a front-page photograph of a precariously perched half of the stilted former home of Meuon Rima and his ex-wife Nhang, both 40, which Mr Rima [...]