Capital police consider installing CCTV cameras from China
Municipal police are considering implementing high-tech security cameras from China to help solve traffic accidents and crack down on crimes in the capital. Lieutenant General Sar Thet, chief of Phnom Penh police, said on Facebook that he led a delegation in China yesterday to observe ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50604360/capital-police-consider-installing-cctv-cameras-from-china/
Street vendors told to move
Daun Penh district authorities have ordered a group of Kandal market vendors to move in the hopes of reopening a street that has blocked vehicular traffic for many years. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5098331/street-vendors-told-move/
Crackdown on vehicles with unpaid tax
The General Department of Customs and Excise at the Ministry of Economy and Finance vowed to take legal action against those using vehicles with unpaid tax and unapproved modifications after relevant authorities had advised them through educational announcements. General Department of Customs and Excise director-general ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/crackdown-vehicles-unpaid-tax
Japan’s grants aim to ease Phnom Penh’s traffic woes
Workers are putting the finishing touches to the capital’s Chroy Changvar Bridge before its official reopening on April 4, in time for Khmer New Year. The bridge has been under renovation since October 2017, thanks to a $30 million grant aid issued by the Japanese ...
Husain Haider
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japans-grants-aim-ease-phnom-penhs-traffic-woes
Traffic fines to be paid electronically
The Ministry of Interior is setting up a system that will allow traffic fines to be paid electronically at banks and money transfer services. Run Roth Veasna, director of the department of traffic and order police, said the system could be up and running by ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/traffic-fines-be-paid-electronically
Governor Denies Any Plans to Build Subway
Phnom Penh governor Kep Chuktema denied a report that appeared Tuesday on the government-run news website Agence Kampuchea Presse (AKP), which claimed that the municipality has plans to build a subway beneath the Tonle Sap River. According to the AKP report, the Phnom Penh municipality will ...
Ministry to amend traffic law articles
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has announced that it intends to amend several articles of the Law on Road Traffic in order to reduce accidents. ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-to-amend-traffic-law-articles
Minister proposes festival ban on heavy vehicles to reduce accidents
Noting that heavy lorries are often involved in serious accidents, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Sokha proposed a ban on such vehicles during major national festivals to reduce incidents and traffic congestion. ...
Phak Seangly
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/minister-proposes-festival-ban-on-heavy-vehicles-to-reduce-accidents
City Hall Installs More Cameras To Monitor Congestion
Phnom Penh City Hall has installed five new surveillance cameras at major intersections around the city in order to help traffic police monitor increasingly congested roads, police and an official at an Internet service provider (ISP) said this week. Paul Blanche-Horgan, CEO of ISP Ezecom—the firm which set up the ...
Sar Kheng calls for equal and strict liability to traffic offences
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday assured support for traffic police who enforce the law against high-ranking officials that violate traffic regulations. ...
Mom Kunthear
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50695077/sar-kheng-calls-for-equal-and-strict-liability-to-traffic-offences
Ministry to transport drivers: final warning on overloaded trucks
Officers at nearly 30 weigh stations across the country carried out an educational campaign for truckers to introduce the articles 26 and 60 of the road traffic law which prescribe stricter penalties for overloaded trucks. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-transport-drivers-final-warning-overloaded-trucks-0
Policing the Police: New Unit Assigned to Traffic Cops
Phnom Penh’s traffic police officers, whose reputation for bribe taking is renowned, will soon be monitored by a new mobile police unit to ensure they uphold the law, the Ministry of Interior said. The Special Team Monitoring traffic Law Enforcement will ensure that traffic police are ...
Khuon Narim and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/policing-the-police-new-unit-assigned-to-traffic-cops-51859/
Train track squatters told to clear out
More than 60 families living in Boeung Kak I commune of Phnom Penh’s Toul Kork district were ordered by local authorities to remove fences and crops lining railway tracks by August 19. However, the people have protested and refused to follow the order. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/train-track-squatters-told-clear-out
PP improves traffic management skills
Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday signed an agreement to improve the capacity of traffic management personnel. ...
Tin Sokhavuth
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50939298/pp-improves-traffic-management-skills/
New vehicles sold in Kingdom need safety certification
The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation has advised all companies, factories, enterprises and importers of all types of new vehicles in Cambodia to apply for safety certification of those vehicles at the Institute of Standards of Cambodia (ISC). ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-vehicles-sold-kingdom-need-safety-certification
Exemption of 229 overweight vehicles that were previously detained by the officials at the station
On 01 October 2021, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) issued a notification on the exemption of 229 overweight vehicles that were previously detained by the officials at the station. The government has relaxed as well as re-provided opportunities for company owners and ...
Ministry of Public Works and Transport
Right-hand drive ban enforced
Military officers working along the Cambodian-Thai border have been ordered to prevent the smuggling of right-hand drive vehicles into the country. ...
Nov Sivutha
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/right-hand-drive-ban-enforced
Campaign to raise awareness of road safety under way
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has launched a campaign to distribute road safety leaflets to civil servants and then the public nationwide with the aim of reducing traffic accidents and providing general education on the traffic law. ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/campaign-raise-awareness-road-safety-under-way
Right-hand drive vehicles no longer allowed after June 2022
A senior official at the Council of Ministers warned owners of right-hand drive vehicles that they must change their vehicles over to left-hand drive by June, 2022, or risk having them seized and destroyed. He also noted that beginning in 2021 all privately owned vehicles ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/right-hand-drive-vehicles-no-longer-allowed-after-june-2022
Rules set for police, RCAF plates
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has announced that privately-owned vehicles bearing police and Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) licence plates or other official insignia must pay registration fees as the exemption only applies to vehicles that are registered as state property. ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/rules-set-police-rcaf-plates