Take From The Poor, Give Almost All To The Rich, Then Ask The Poor To Be Thankful For The Scraps

Has the sell-off of Boeung Tamok been worth $2.5 billion?

On April 7, Hun Manet offered the people of Phnom Penh a form of poacher philanthropy. Generously, he said, he has instructed the authorities to set aside 70 hectares near Boeung Tamok—or “Kob Srov”, a former lake well north of the capital, near the Kandal border—for the creation of a public park. “I have prepared about 70 hectares of land at Kob Srov R…