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Laying claim

| Publication date 04 May 2017 | 09:07 ICT

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Laying claim

Chroy Changvar community representative Chea Sophat leads a protest yesterday against the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation, which is building a satellite city that would see residents lose the majority of their land on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar Peninsula.

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