Search On for Missing Cook After Oknha's House Collapses

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CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:32 pm According to this Khmer Times article today, neither the owner of the collapsed villa, nor the constructor, will be held responsible for the accident. "It is just an accident." : Sen Sok Police chief.


He said that if the owner of the construction company does not have a valid permit issued by the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning, or if they don’t follow approved plans, they will face the law.
I am just guessing here ... a wild stab in the dark ... but when your new house sinks into the ground it was built on that must mean approved plans were not followed.
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IraHayes wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:04 pm
CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:32 pm According to this Khmer Times article today, neither the owner of the collapsed villa, nor the constructor, will be held responsible for the accident. "It is just an accident." : Sen Sok Police chief.


He said that if the owner of the construction company does not have a valid permit issued by the Ministry of Land Management and Urban Planning, or if they don’t follow approved plans, they will face the law.
I am just guessing here ... a wild stab in the dark ... but when your new house sinks into the ground it was built on that must mean approved plans were not followed.
They probably figured that “hey, if those rickety wooden shacks on legs in Tonle Sap don’t collapse into the water, surely a 100 tonne concrete and steel building will be fine standing on a few legs stuck in the mud at the bottom of a pond”
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Arget wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 3:58 pm What a mongrel mob of suckholeing pricks.

"According to this Khmer Times article today, neither the owner of the collapsed villa, nor the constructor, will be held responsible for the accident. "It is just an accident." : Sen Sok Police chief."

"At the time of the collapse on Saturday night, the owner was thought to be hiding until Sunday afternoon and caused surprise when he returned to check his house, said Col Mengvang."

And if the owner knew about it but only turned up on Sunday to be surprised he is a bigger prick than before.
Obviously, if it had been the Oknha that had gone down with the house, things would be very different.
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she was quite pretty and looked older
she knew only what had been told her
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CEOCambodiaNews wrote:appealed to the owners of the borey and the houses in his local area to use a professional construction engineer to avoid similar accidents.
That answers the question of whether an engineer actually involved.

An ordinary Khmer (or ordinary anyone for that matter) suing an Okhna for civil damages and convincing a judge? There is no trial by jury in Cambodia. The judge has extraordinary power in the Kingdom of Wonder.

That poor lady’s family has only one recourse. Publicly appeal to Iron Man for justice.

If HE intervenes, the family might get a few thousand for burial. Just like the medical student that got run over and killed by an Okhna’s daughter.

Of course I could be complete wrong and the Okhna goes to prison.

I’ll put my tin foil hat back on, now.
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