(Maze by mzacha; houses by Stanley Elliot / sxc.hu) URBAN settlers who have lived in an area for many years are increasingly finding themselves uprooted and displaced while being offered verbal promises of compensation. Rather than debate on whether the local council or the developer is in the right to do all these things, I […]
squatters
Squatter residents must relocate by year-end
KUALA LUMPUR, 23 Jan 2009: More than 10,000 squatter residents in the the city have been asked to vacate their settlements by year-end. Federal Territories Deputy Minister Datuk M Saravanan said this was necessary to achieve zero squatter status in the Federal Territory. He said almost half of them resided on government land while the […]
