Cambodia, Korea cooperate to strengthen traffic safety and improve safety equipment around schools
Cambodia and the Republic of Korea signed a Memorandum of Understanding on “Strengthening Traffic Safety and Improving Safety Equipment in School Areas in Cambodia.” ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501347286/cambodia-korea-cooperate-to-strengthen-traffic-safety-and-improve-safety-equipment-around-schools/
Next year fine for helmet penalties
Road-safety advocates will likely continue banging their heads against the walls as police in Cambodia wait until early next year to enforce a new traffic law relating to helmets. fines under a yet-to-be passed law will charge drivers and passengers $3.75, about five times the previous ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/next-year-fine-helmet-penalties
City Hall orders curbs on beggars
Phnom Penh municipality on Monday ordered a curb on vagrants entering the city and a roundup of beggars, homeless people and children selling items at traffic lights. In the directive, signed by deputy city governor Seng Ratanak, City Hall orders the 12 district governors, its social ...
Kuch Naren and Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-hall-orders-curbs-on-beggars-60865/
Stretch of boulevard to be widened for Aeon Mall
Phnom Penh City Hall plans to expand a section of Sothearos Boulevard outside a main entrance to the new Aeon Mall to help ease traffic congestion when the four-floor shopping center officially opens on Monday, officials said Wednesday. “We have a plan to expand the street ...
Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/stretch-of-sothearos-boulevard-to-be-widened-for-aeon-mall-62469/
Luxury timber driver flees scene of crash
The driver of a van loaded with luxury timber fled the scene after crashing into traffic signs at Phnom Penh Autonomous Port on Tuesday. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/luxury-timber-driver-flees-scene-crash
British ambassador urges Cambodians to use public buses to reduce congestion
The British ambassador to Cambodia, Bill Longhurst, urged the Cambodian people in Phnom Penh to use public buses to help reduce traffic congestion in the city. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/british-ambassador-urges-cambodians-to-use-public-buses-to-reduce-congestion-8135
China firm proposes expressway for capital
A Chinese company has presented an ambitious plan to build an expressway over Phnom Penh in an effort to relieve traffic congestion. ...
May Kunmakara
http://phnompenhpost.com/business/china-firm-proposes-expressway-capital
CCTV network goes live in capital: police
Some 200 surveillance cameras installed at Phnom Penh’s traffic lights were switched on for the first time yesterday, the National Police and Ministry of Interior announced. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cctv-network-goes-live-capital-police
Techno flyover to open for Water Fest
The Techno flyover on Russian Boulevard, currently under construction, will be ready to help ease traffic congestion during next month’s Water Festival, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/techno-flyover-open-water-fest
China, Thailand drive annual growth at airports
Passengers from China and Thailand are driving double-digit annual growth in Cambodia’s airport traffic, according to a report released on Thursday by the Center for Asia Pacific Aviation. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/china-thailand-drive-annual-growth-at-airports-108285/
Business briefs
The country’s two largest ports saw traffic jump in the first eight months of this year, compared to the same period last year, according to figures released by the port authorities Friday. ...
Khmer Times team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15712/business-briefs/
People to be allowed to use new Chroy Changvar bridge during Water Festival
Phnom Penh capital will open second Chroy Chanvar bridge temporarily for traffic from November 1st for the celebration of Water Festival, an official at Ministry of Public Works and Transport, said Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/people-to-be-allowed-to-use-new-chroy-changvar-bridge-during-water-festival-7562
Ten B Kak activists dispersed by police
Gathering yesterday in front of Phnom Penh City Hall to demand a speedy resolution to longstanding land disputes, 10 Boeung Kak villagers were forcibly dispersed by security personnel citing traffic concerns. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ten-b-kak-activists-dispersed-police
Passenger traffic slides down 67 percent while development of new airports boom
Cambodia’s three international airports handled 1.9 million air passengers in the first six months of this year, a 67.5 percent decrease from 6 million air passengers last year. ...
Chea Vannak /AKP
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50747225/passenger-traffic-slides-down-67-percent-while-development-of-new-airports-boom/
Future plans to create subways to ease capital’s traffic unveiled
Transport in Phnom Penh is slated for vast improvement in the future as plans to construct subways are unveiled. However, skytrains to connect the capital with other provinces have been ruled out. ...
Chhorn Raksmey
https://kiripost.com/stories/future-plans-to-create-subways-to-ease-capitals-traffic-unveiled
Fake IDs make mockery of factory age rules
On a dusty highway on the edge of this port city, thousands of young women and a few hundred young men block evening traffic as they stream out of the New Star Shoes factory. ...
Jamie Elliott and Mech Dara
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fake-ids-make-mockery-of-factory-age-rules-80492/
Chinese police start placing surveillance cameras
Chinese police began installing surveillance cameras on the streets of Phnom Penh on Tuesday, following a donation from Beijing to assist authorities in monitoring crime and traffic in the capital, an official said Wednesday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/chinese-police-start-placing-surveillance-cameras-88535/
Soldier who shot at police in Phnom Penh will face court
A soldier will face court Thursday after his pistol discharged during a scuffle with a group of police officers conducting traffic inspections along Russian Boulevard in Phnom Penh on Tuesday evening, police said Wednesday. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/soldier-who-shot-at-police-in-phnom-penh-will-face-court-92652/
Child traffickers get seven years each
Six Cambodian women were convicted by the Phnom Penh Municipal Court and sentenced to seven years in prison each for conspiring to traffic three Cambodian girls to be sold as brides in China. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/child-traffickers-get-seven-years-each
Temporary means to be constructed when Chroy Changvar bridge is under rehabilitation
Phnom Penh capital hall has planned to construct a temporary steel bridge crossing the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh to address traffic issue when the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge is under rehabilitation. ...
Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=108244