The World Bank yesterday welcomed a government decision to offer on-site relocation to residents of Boeung Kak lake, following the international body’s move to suspend all funding to Cambodia over the issue...[The government moved] to award 12.44 hectares of land to families set to be evicted to make way for a Phnom Penh housing development...A press statement from the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions...said...the offer signaled the “beginning of the end” of a long battle that had seen a cycle of evictions, protests and violence...Most of the families at Boeung Kak yesterday said they were overjoyed that the dispute with ruling party senator Lao Meng Khin’s company Shukaku Inc had moved forward...But others expressed dismay that they had sold their houses to the developer just days before. [also refers to Erdos Hong Jun Investment]