Cargo projections fall short at capital port
Phnom Penh Autonomous Port (PPAP), which operates the capital’s river port, reported a decline in container traffic during the first quarter of the year, raising questions about the newly listed company’s ability to meet its double-digit revenue and earnings projections – though analysts say it ...
Cam McGrath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/cargo-projections-fall-short-capital-port
No scheme in place for congestion near AEON
Despite expecting 27,000 visitors per day, little planning has gone into tackling traffic congestion at Cambodia’s long-awaited AEON Mall when it opens June 30, City Hall said yesterday. There are 1,400 vehicle parking spaces allotted at AEON and 1,600 bikes spaces accessed via both Sothearos ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-scheme-place-congestion-near-aeon
Electric cars face hurdles in new bid to mitigate pollution at Angkor Wat
Ever since its designation as a UNESCO heritage site in 1992, the Angkor Archaeological Park has been a tourism magnet for the Kingdom. In the high season, it isn’t uncommon to see tuk-tuks, private taxis and busloads of tourists flooding the temple complex, causing traffic jams ...
Ananth Baliga
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/electric-cars-face-hurdles-new-bid-mitigate-pollution-angkor-wat
Cambodian-Thai border crossing suspended
The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to temporarily suspend traffic through the Cambodian-Thai border, except for the transportation of goods and special cases. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50903680/cambodian-thai-border-crossing-suspended/
Freight rail services gather pace
Freight rail shipments have gained traction since commercial rail traffic resumed on the Kingdom’s sole operational railway line in 2013, but Royal Railway, the private company with a 30-year concession to operate the Kingdom’s railway network, is pressing for more growth as it seeks to ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/freight-rail-services-gather-pace
‘Mondulkiri rife with forest crimes’
A truck transporting timber overturned on Thursday evening, killing one person and injured another. The incident at Sen Monorom commune, in Mondulkiri province’s O’Raing district, has added spark to the ongoing debate on forest crimes in the province. The province’s traffic police bureau director Yoem ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/mondulkiri-rife-forest-crimes
Ta Mok bridge reopened
Authorities in Oddar Meanchey province’s Anlong Veng district reopened the Ta Mok bridge for traffic yesterday after water levels subsided, but some officials were still stationed at the bridge. The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology released a statement yesterday, saying the water in Ta Mok ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29768/ta-mok-bridge-reopened/
Ministry calls for action on illegal police plates
The Interior Ministry on Wednesday released a statement directing authorities to clamp down on the unlawful use of police license plates because drivers have been using them as an excuse to commit traffic crimes and avoid paying taxes. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-calls-for-action-on-illegal-police-plates-96041/
Road sign plan seeks to boost safety
Transport Minister Sun Chanthol is to order all road construction companies to install signs at their worksites in an effort to avoid traffic accidents.Speaking at the closing ceremony of the National Road Safety Committee’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr Chanthol said he would order companies working ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104210/road-sign-plan-seeks-to-boost-safety/
Angry factory workers block National Road 6
About 4,000 angry workers crowded National Road 6 for about 10 minutes yesterday morning The striking employees of the Chinese-owned Juhui Footwear Co, Ltd, who walked out on Friday, took to the street and blocked traffic after officials from the Coalition of Cambodian Apparel Workers Democratic ...
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/angry-factory-workers-block-national-road-6
A road changes course
The rules of Sothearos Boulevard are once again shifting. After recently converting the road to a one-way street – a move that was largely ignored by the motos and cars that use the busy thoroughfare – the Phnom Penh Municipality released a new statement on Saturday ...
Vietnam affirms close cooperation in transport with Laos, Cambodia
The transport ministries of Vietnam and Laos have affirmed close cooperation in all aspects of the transport sector at an annual bilateral ministerial meeting in Hanoi on August 22. Vietnam and Cambodia reached consensus on a range of traffic matters at a ministerial-level meeting held ...
VietNamNet Bridge News Staff
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/government/139512/vietnam-affirms-close-cooperation-in-transport-with-laos--cambodia.html
Three new subways planned in Phnom Penh
Phnom Penh authority is constructing three more subways shortly to facilitate commuters in the capital as well as to reduce traffic congestion. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50727081/three-new-subways-planned-in-phnom-penh/
Kampot seeks smoother VN border
Kampot provincial officials are seeking a solution with Vietnamese authorities to enable smooth cross-border rice commerce and resolve lingering concerns over traffic congestion and customs procedures. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/kampot-seeks-smoother-vn-border
90km roads damaged by flooding
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport instructed its officials on Wednesday to immediately inspect and repair roads that have been damaged by floods to ease traffic. Ministry spokesman Nou Vattanak told The Post that floods triggered by heavy rains over the past few months ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/90km-roads-damaged-flooding
Online supermarket ready to take orders
KhmerToGo.com can’t solve the capital’s traffic problem, but it can keep residents and restaurant owners from getting stuck in it.The new online supermarket is set to go fully operational next week, offering what it claims will be the country’s most comprehensive selection of wholesale and ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-supermarket-ready-take-orders
City Hall considering relocating warehouses
Speaking at a pagoda inauguration on Saturday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said City Hall is looking to move warehouses and automobile repair shops out of the city centre to the outskirts to reduce pollution and traffic congestion – a move Hun Sen’s sister Hun ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-considering-relocating-warehouses
Protesting monks leave City Hall after violence re-erupts: report
Hundreds of protesting monks, who participated with Boeng Kak residents in a rally held in front of Phnom Penh City Hall, left after violence re-erupts. They are demanding Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheat Vong provide more compensation to the evicted families in Boeng Kak. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=YWVkZWNmOGEwZTU
NagaCorp chief CEO’s son smashes casino striker’s phone, union says
A son of casino firm NagaCorp’s billionaire senior CEO has been accused by unionists of snatching and throwing to the ground a phone belonging to a striking employee of the company’s NagaWorld casino, with video also showing the identified executive lobbing a traffic cone at ...
Sovann Sreypich and Jack Brook
https://cambojanews.com/nagacorp-chief-ceos-son-smashes-casino-strikers-phone-union-says/
Civil society continues to remember Kem Ley’s heroism eight years after his murder
On the eighth anniversary of Kem Ley’s murder in 2016, civil society groups and youth activists gathered at the Caltex petrol station near the Bokor traffic lights, where he was shot dead. ...
Phon Sothyroth
https://cambojanews.com/civil-society-continues-to-remember-kem-leys-heroism-eight-years-after-his-murder/