Infrastructure

With charter air traffic between Cambodia and Macau growing steadily, the government has proposed adding direct scheduled flights to encourage more Chinese tourists and businesspeople to visit the Kingdom.Prime Minister Hun Sen proposed a direct air link during last week’s Global Tourism Economy Forum in ...

One month after the government announced a crackdown on unregistered mobile phone lines, retailers are still selling SIM cards without the required identification documents, and the major telecom companies have done little to curtail the practice.​ In a joint press conference on September 22, officials ...

Three Chinese air passengers were thrown off a flight in Cambodia after a scuffle broke out on board before the plane took off, according to a newspaper report. ...

Five aspiring Cambodian pilots attended their first class yesterday of a 16-month flight-training program by Viet Flight Training (VFT) that will qualify them to be commercial airline pilots, making them among the first Cambodian nationals to earn their wings in decades.The five students are the ...

On the afternoon of October 10, local officials and Apsara Authority agreed that, with a budget of more than $4 million, the local government would upgrade a 15-kilometer stretch of the ring road and stop taking fees and tolls from vehicles. ...

PHNOM PENH Autonomous Port (PPAP) began it roadshow yesterday to attract investors ahead of its initial public offering (IPO), saying the share price will range between $1.08 and $1.50 and that 35 percent of them had already been booked.   ...

As the Cambodian government moves forward with the creation of a law to regulate cyber-security, experts say any legislation should include clear language to prevent abuse of the law and restrictions to online freedoms.A draft of the law from July obtained by VOA Khmer says ...

The Council of Ministers on Friday signed off on a potentially sweeping draft law that would regulate the country’s telecommunications sector, which a rights group warned in May could effectively nationalize private service providers. ...

A controversial Facebook platform that offers users free Internet —but a limited choice of websites and apps—was launched in Phnom Penh on Thursday in cooperation with mobile operator Smart Axia­ta, its CEO said on Friday. ...

Bassaka Air will return the $240 fee it charged a wheelchair user who had to be mechanically lifted onto a flight in Siem Reap in September, the airline said in a statement on Monday. ...

Cargo traffic through Phnom Penh’s Autonomous Port grew more than 6 per cent for the first nine months of 2015, with around 108,700 TEUs of goods passing through the port, according to data released by the port yesterday.​​ ...

An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ...

An agreement signed between Alcatel-Lucent and Cambodia’s Chuan Wei Ltd. is expected to pave the way for expanding mobile ultra-broadband connectivity across the country. According to data from Alcatel-Lucent, approximately one-third of Cambodians are connected to the Internet, with the majority accessing data on their ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday appealed to taxi drivers around the Kingdom not to raise prices during the national Pchum Ben festival, during which people often visit family in the provinces to pay respects to deceased relatives. ...

The UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to postpone an audit of Cambodia’s aviation authority until June 2016 to give the agency more time to prepare.Sinn Chanserey Vutha, spokesman of the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said yesterday that his organisation was ...

The Disability Action Council (DAC) said yesterday it would conduct an investigation of Bassaka Airlines and the Cambodian Airport Management Service Ltd (CAMS) to determine whether a $240 surcharge for a wheelchair-bound passenger qualifies as discrimination under the country’s disability law. ...

The government has asked the company that manages airports in Cambodia to explain why, according to airline Bassaka Air, it demanded $240 from the carrier for helping a disabled passenger board one of its aircraft.Bassaka Air, which found itself at the centre of a media ...

The Cambodian government will hold a meeting with gasoline companies on October 1st aiming to ask those companies to reduce the price of gasoline.​ ...

From a simple stall on a street corner in Phnom Penh’s Chamkar Mon district, Khuon Andy sells SIM cards, between 40 and 60 per month. Half of his customers provide identification to make their purchase, and half of them do not. ...

National Road 2, which links Phnom Penh to the border with Vietnam in Svay Rieng province, was backed up for more than two hours Wednesday after an overloaded truck filled with stones caused a steel bridge to collapse in Kandal province, officials said. ...

Anyone who purchased a mobile phone SIM card without providing appropriate ID can expect to see those phone numbers terminated, while any retailer selling SIM cards without collecting identification documents faces arrest, the government announced yesterday. The crackdown, which begins today, will see any retailer ...

The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday announced the start of feasibility studies aimed at building an express elevated toll road that would extend from Phnom Penh’s city centre to the airport by 2021.Public Works Minister Tram Iv Tek said yesterday that China’s Henan ...

Construction of a 10-kilometer elevated highway connecting Phnom Penh and the airport is slated to begin next year, Minister of Public Works and Transport Tram Iv Tek said yesterday. ...

Local government officials in a southern Cambodian province failed to evacuate villagers in time to prevent their homes and rice fields from flooding after the operators of a Chinese-built hydropower dam informed them a day earlier that they would open the facility’s gates to release ...