Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Sboang Sarath issued a notice dated on June 16 to all business owners on Otres beach, including guesthouse, restaurant and bar to relocate within one week.
Around 70 business owners on this beach are ordered to remove by June 30. If not meet the new deadline, authorities will evict them and are not responsible for their property.
“The authorities will not let the residents build houses, sell and rent to private [interests] because the area beach is owned by the state. Some of them make the area dirty and do not have manners.”
On Wednesday, business owners vowed to protest the pending eviction and they said that the authorities did not give time sufficient time to find other ways to support themselves.