Don't forget there will also be a boat /ferry service








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It needs a road with a dedicated lane for airport transit buses/traffic.

Not sure how they could do that.

Tycoon defends claim to Kandal land near planned new airport after US visa cancelled
15 February 2018
A tycoon implicated in a land dispute involving a massive new airport in Kandal province defended her claims to the land yesterday, one week after the US Embassy cancelled her visa in connection with the dispute.

Seang Chanheng, who holds the royally bestowed title of “oknha”, said villagers had moved onto her land in Kandal Stung district more than five years after she first purchased it, denying villagers’ claims that they have lived there since the 1980s and ’90s.

“They always accuse me of being rich because I rob other people’s property and cheat people,” Chanheng said. “They accuse me of getting the land titles from colluding with other people.”

Since the government announced the construction of a massive airport and mixed-use development on 2,600 hectares in the area, disputes over the land in Kandal Stung district have erupted.

Several high-ranking officials who own land in the vicinity – including Minister of Tourism Thong Khon, three-star General Duong Heng, Deputy Phnom Penh Governor Koet Chhe and Phnom Penh Police Chief Chuon Sovann – are locked in disputes with a variety of companies.

Shortly after The Post wrote an article earlier this month about the long-running land dispute, the US Embassy cancelled her visa for an upcoming trip, according to Chanheng. The US government cancels visas for a variety of reasons, including fraud or failing to disclose a prior conviction. Chanheng was convicted of forging land titles in Kampong Chhnang last year, a finding that was revealed in The Post article.
Embassy spokesman Arend Zwartjes declined to comment yesterday.
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/t ... -cancelled


Oknha Seang Chanheng

Probably easy for her to prove she bought the land by showing the receipt for the money paid,, showing the date ,,, and the contract to buy with the previous owners name on it.

That previous conviction doesn't help her case, though.

Funny, the US govt cancelling a visa due to fraud.

They have WMD!

Looks like the development company is playing tough and has moved in before the legal niceties, such as the examination of the villagers' claims to the land, have been observed. For the ruling party this is not a good time for a new land dispute.

Villagers protest Kandal airport development
25 April 2018
Hundreds of villagers living near the site of a massive new airport project protested Wednesday against what they said were excavators slowly encroaching on their land.

Phok Vanny, a representative for the villagers, said three excavators and a bulldozer appeared over the Khmer New Year holidays on communal wetlands that the villagers share.

“We want the company to find a solution for us first,” said Vanny, who is from Kandal Stung district’s Ampov Prey commune. “They plan to dig to make a border in the land.”

The government’s surprise announcement in January that it would build a $1.5 billion airport in the district, as well as a massive multi-use development north of the facility, ignited multiple long-running land disputes across the district, most with Heng Development Co., owned by tycoon Seang Chanheng.

Vanny said roughly 1,000 families have put forward claims to the land affected by the development.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... evelopment

Lots of wheeling and dealing going on around the land area proposed for the future Phnom Penh Airport.The conflict between villagers and tycoon Seang Chanheng appears to have been resolved.

A separate group of villagers locked in a land dispute with Oknha Seang Chanheng in nearby Kandork commune said they had accepted her company’s offer to compensate them in cash. According to village representative Oeung Sary, residents have received half of promised payments already, and the second half is due before the election.

However, in what has been labeled a "bizarre" move, provincial authorities have granted hundreds of hectares of disputed land to the Min Yu Cultural Foundation, which is owned by Christian Huot and Sonn Jung Aye – the son and wife, respectively, of Oknha Huot Vantha.

Provincial authorities moved on Wednesday to implement a years-old court verdict awarding hundreds of hectares of land in Kandal province to a little-known company over the complaints of local residents, in a move that a local court official called “bizarre”.

Deputy Provincial Governor Kim Rithy said officials went to Choeung Koeub commune to show residents how the plots will be divided based on a 2014 Supreme Court verdict that awarded the land to a company called Min Yu Cultural Foundation.

Several land disputes have erupted in Kandal Stung district after the government in January announced a massive new airport development in the area, sending land prices skyrocketing.

Rithy, whose father is four-star General Kun Kim, denied widespread rumours that his father has real estate interests in the area, but admitted his mother owns some land in the commune, which she bought a decade ago

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... zarre-move

that genius wrote: ↑Sat Feb 10, 2018 4:25 pm

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.

Is it possible Duncan had simply fallen, and couldn't get up?

It's always weird to me when underdeveloped countries spring for stuff like public wifi in parks, massive cellular towers, massive billion dollar airport, and the like, when meanwhile a lot of the people still can't read, don't have a toilet to shit in, don't have running water and electricity, don't have a working public transportation system, no decent train system, no highway network, etc. I guess there's no money in that stuff?

On a sidenote, a forum member who has long since stopped posting owns property that shares a property line with HEs facility - he was really chuffed when the road that runs outside his property was upgraded, the sewerage was upgraded, the cell phone coverage was upgraded, the water pressure was improved...