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Today some 150 residents from the Boeung Kak area gathered in front of Prime Minister Hun Sens house in Takmau to ask for his support (VIJ2008069). Some 4000 families, living on, near and from the Boeung Kak lake in Phnom Penh, are threatened to be evicted soon. The municipality granted a 99 year lease to a Korean company which plans to fill the lake and develop the new land by building office spaces and residential areas. The problem is that the municipality recognises only 600 families to be entitled for compensation: either a house in the suburbs or 8500$, which is way under the market value.