CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 7:32 pm
Satellite image of the future airport location from Phnom Penh Post archives.

I was passing the area yesterday and this is what a airport looks like now.







First Photo..
I am assuming you know how to turn your phone/tablet/laptop on its side to look at it.

Confusion reigns over land ownership in the area of Kandal marked out for the future airport development. There is big money at stake and a big potential for conflict between businessmen. The villagers who have been settled there for two decades, and who had thought they would be granted land titles, are now getting bulldozed.

Will huge new airport planned for Kandal see locals stripped of land?
8 February 2018
The glitzy new airport and surrounding mixed-use development could revive one of the country’s fiercest land rights disputes – one that even the Supreme Court has said is marred by “irregularities”.

Nearly 300 families who say they have been living on the same land for more than two decades now find themselves again in the midst of conflict.

Even provincial authorities say they are uncertain who has the rights to the disputed land, which has long been claimed by Oknha Seang Chanheng but was recently purchased by well-connected development firm Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), in partnership with the state aviation department...

Suddenly, in 2014, the Supreme Court ruled that the land in fact belonged to a company called Min You Cultural Foundation, represented, according to court documents, by Oknha Thai Seng Long and two Japanese businessmen. The company appears to be unregistered and no trace of it could be found in Ministry of Commerce records. A contact for Seng Long was unavailable.

Two years later, one of two people listed by the Supreme Court as an original owner of the land – a former Funcinpec senator named Pov Sith – was convicted in August 2016 of forging documents to sell 1,000 hectares in Kandal Stung district to a Japanese bank and sentenced to one year in prison.

Chanheng too had her own run-ins with the law involving shady land deals, and was convicted of faking land titles in order to sell 147 hectares in Kampong Chhnang to Chinese investors.
Full article: http://phnompenhpost.com/national-post- ... ipped-land

So after sitting on a plane from BKK, Kul, Singapore for 1 > 2 hours and then from this new airport to PP city sitting presumable on a bus for 1 1/2 hours !!!! No thanks.

Popeye wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 3:50 pm So after sitting on a plane from BKK, Kul, Singapore for 1 > 2 hours and then from this new airport to PP city sitting presumable on a bus for 1 1/2 hours !!!! No thanks.

Run a sky train/monorail up HE Blvd?

Popeye wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 3:50 pm So after sitting on a plane from BKK, Kul, Singapore for 1 > 2 hours and then from this new airport to PP city sitting presumable on a bus for 1 1/2 hours !!!! No thanks.

It's already 1 hour into town from the airport if there's a bit of traffic. Just looking at the map, you can see the future airport is a lot further, and there's a good chance that PP urban sprawl will expand in that direction as well.
They will need public transport, but I'm sure that's part of the plan. Maybe.

Duncan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 05, 2018 12:17 pm

It's going to cost a fortune to rotate that land 90 degrees so they can start building.

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 4:08 pmThey will need public transport, but I'm sure that's part of the plan. Maybe.

This is optimism at its best.

Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 4:08 pmIt's already 1 hour into town from the airport if there's a bit of traffic.

If they plan to bring traffic into the intersection of Monivong and 271, it will take 4-5 hours. It's already the worst intersection in the country.

I guess it will be on that huge wetland alongside highway 21 or is it 22 that runs along the west side of the Bassac towards Vietnam. Have they finished the upgrade of that road yet?