Fears grow for buildings
The colonial-era buildings damaged by a construction site along Phnom Penh’s bustling riverfront are under threat of imminent collapse, a structural engineer who examined the area said yesterday. Local company Vattanac yesterday complied with local authority demands to halt construction at the Sisowath Quay site – ...
Derek Stout and Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/fears-grow-buildings
Families Evicted by Railway Project File Complaint With Bank
More than 150 residents evicted from Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district to make way for a railway rehabilitation project filed a complaint yesterday with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) office in Phnom Penh, one of two principal financiers for the project, saying their relocation site ...
Donors Face Mounting Pressure Over Rail Project
A group of NGOs on Friday called on Australia and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to suspend work and funding for a government-led project to rehabilitate the country’s railway system should authorities in Poipet City follow through on an eviction notice delivered to 22 families ...
Resettlement Plans Begin for Families Affected by Sesan Dam
Thousand of families that stand to be evicted when construction work on the Lower Sesan 2 Dam begins in 2014 will each receive a 1-hectare plot of land for a home as well as a 5 additional hectares for growing crops, provincial officials said yesterday. Provincial ...
Angkor Wat revenue at $51 million for last year
Revenue from foreign tourists buying passes to see temples in Siem Reap’s Angkor Wat complex amounted to about $51 million last year, according to a Post calculation of data that was released Friday in a letter by the Apsara Authority, which manages the site. [Bun] Narith ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/angkor-wat-revenue-51-million-last-year
Russian federation to help safeguard Preah Vihear
Russia plans to join the International Coordinator Committee to safeguard and develop the Preah Vihear historical site, an official confirmed yesterday. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24313/russian-federation-to-help-safeguard-preah-vihear/
A man’s world
Straining under the weight of bricks, buckets and metal bars, a faceless army carry their loads from trucks to a massive building site on Penh Penh’s Diamond Island. Hidden beneath wide-brimmed hats and kramas masking their faces from dust and the sun, the battalion of ...
Frédéric Janssens
http://sea-globe.com/female-construction-workers-cambodia/
Chemical weapons team ends mission in Mondulkiri
A technical team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons finished inspecting 12 chemical bomb sites in Mondulkiri province yesterday. ...
Phak Seangly
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chemical-weapons-team-ends-mission-mondulkiri
Hongkong Land plans to break ground in 2012
Hongkong Land, one of Asia’s largest property investment companies, plans to have excavators move in on one of its four properties in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district that it bought earlier this year, according to an official at the company. John Brinsden, country adviser for Jardine ...
No oil for up to five years: Cambodian government
It will be years before oil starts to be produced by energy giant Chevron’s offshore site in the Gulf of Thailand, a senior Cambodian official said yesterday. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and Energy, said that negotiations over taxation have continued ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-oil-five-years-cambodian-government
Sihanoukville governor slams construction gate
Preah Sihanouk town authorities on Wednesday ordered the dismantling of a construction site gate that was encroaching upon public land and a canal in Boun commune. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106111/sihanoukville-governor-slams-construction-gate/
Over 50 illegal vietnamese workers arrested in capital
More than 50 illegal Vietnamese migrant workers were arrested Wednesday while working on the construction site of luxury estates in Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district, police said. ...
Saing Soenthrith
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/over-50-illegal-vietnamese-workers-arrested-in-capital-90035/
Chinese tourists overtake S Koreans at Angkor
China has overtaken South Korea to become the largest tourist source to at the Angkor world heritage site, state-run Agency Kampuchea Press (AKP) reported yesterday. ...
Agence Kampuchea Press team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14009/chinese-tourists-overtake-s-koreans-at-angkor/
Funeral payout just ‘sympathy’
The company that paid the funeral costs of two construction workers killed when a fence collapsed on them on Saturday distanced itself yesterday from the accident, saying it doesn’t own the building site. The claim came as Meanchey District Governor Kouch Chamroeun vowed to take action ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/funeral-payout-just-%E2%80%98sympathy%E2%80%99
Future unclear for dormant health center
Nearly three years after it was shut down for supposed renovations, Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon Referral Hospital is still not operational and former staff say they have been left out in the cold about what will happen to the site. Commune, district, municipal and national health ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/future-unclear-for-dormant-health-center-59231/
Compensation paid to families after tragedy
The families of three Cambodian workers killed after a six-storey condominium building collapsed at a construction site just north of Bangkok earlier this week have been paid compensation. ...
Cheang Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/compensation-paid-families-after-tragedy
Children—a new defense against looting?
For years, archaeologists excavating pre-Angkorian sites in Banteay Meanchey province unsuccessfully attempted to stop the looting of the area’s temples and buried treasures. ...
Ministry of tourism website hacked by “Teenageworms”
A Nepalese group of hackers calling themselves “TeenageWorms” hacked into the website of Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism Thursday, changing the title of the site’s URL in Google search. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13038/ministry-of-tourism-website-hacked-by----teenageworms---/
Tests confirm Angkor boat made in 1207 AD
A boat unearthed at a construction site in Siem Reap’s Angkor Thom district in April was made in 1207 AD, according to carbon dating results announced on Friday. ...
Erin Handley and Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/tests-confirm-angkor-boat-made-1207-ad
Angkor Thom restoration complete
Major restoration works have been completed at the former seat of power of the Angkorian civilisation, Angkor Thom, following damage inflicted to the site by Typhoon Nesat in 2011. ...
Zoe Holman
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/angkor-thom-restoration-complete