KPP to Build Free Houses Along Cambodia-Vietnam Border

In an effort to populate the area along the Cambodia-Vietnam border with Cambodians, president of the Khmer Power Party (KPP) Sourn Serey Ratha told Khmer Times yesterday that his party planned to build 16 houses for voluntary inhabitants in the area surrounding the Paknam Pagoda in Kandal province’s Koh Thom district.

“For the first step, we will build 16 houses in Paknam pagoda. Each house will cost around $1,800. The abbot of the pagoda has already given us some plots of land for those houses,” said Mr. Ratha. Most of the current inhabitants in the area are Vietnamese immigrants. A police officer in Koh Thom district, who asked to remain nameless, told Khmer Times that claims of Vietnamese prevalence surrounding the pagoda were true.

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