Aussie missionary Martin Chan bailed in Cambodia

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Australian missionary Martin Chan was granted bail on his third attempt in a Phnom Penh court on Friday amid a legal dispute over the construction of a school. “I’m relieved and feeling very good, I just want to go home with my wife,” the 49-year-old said outside the court. “Prison has been difficult but the guards were very good to me because they know my story.”

 

The court earlier heard how Mr Chan had worked as a volunteer with a South Korean, Jung Young-Kim, at His International Services, a Christian charity which contracted a local company PHV Construction to build a school for 1000 bilingual students. The multi-million-dollar project was scrapped in 2016 amid a dispute which went to the National Commercial Arbitration Centre where Mr Chan and his charity were cleared of any wrongdoing.

 

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