Vietnamese in Cambodia struggle as local authority dismantles temporary shelters
To Van Trong a resident from the area, said that his family and most of the people in the area had lived on floating houses in Prek Pnov district’s river, Phnom Penh, since 1980 after Vietnamese volunteers soldiers helped Cambodia overthrow the Khmer Rouge regime. Although their life is difficult, they still have lived there for decades.
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