Infrastructure
Interior ministry ‘suspends’ beach evictions
In early August, Sihanoukville city’s then municipal governor, Chin Sarin, issued a notice giving 26 vendors and their families at Ochheuteal Beach days to remove their stalls from the beach or face forced eviction. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15540/interior-ministry----suspends----beach-evictions/
Kampot holdouts take compensation, move out
Six families in Kampot City accepted compensation of $3,000 each on Monday for their houses situated on a road that authorities want to expand, after initially rejecting the offer last week. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-holdouts-take-compensation-move-out-93702/
Small Planet Airlines and Sky Angkor to cooperate in Cambodia
In accordance with an agreement made between Small Planet Airlines and Sky Angkor, the two airlines will cooperate flying tourists to Siem Reap in Cambodia from Chinese and South Korean cities for at least five years. Sky Angkor is the South Korean and Cambodian capital ...
Aviation Pros News Staff
http://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/12111947/small-planet-airlines-and-sky-angkor-to-cooperate-in-cambodia
Monitoring the internet
Coming on the heels of high-profile arrests linked directly to Facebook posts, the Interior Ministry has revealed plans to establish a new “anti-cybercrime” department that will not only “crack down” on crimes like hacking, but a broad range of misdeeds open to interpretation including incitement ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/monitoring-internet
Expressway planned from Saigon to Cambodian border
Vietnam is considering the construction of an expressway to link Ho Chi Minh City to neighboring Tay Ninh Province with investment of 693 million U.S. dollars, local online newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) News reported Thursday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15269/expressway-planned-from-saigon-to-cambodian-border/
Buyout makes way for road in Kampot
A majority of the families living on a plot of land in Kampot City that authorities want to use to widen a road leading to the sea Thursday accepted a compensation package from the local government, a city official said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/buyout-makes-way-for-road-in-kampot-93384/
ADB confirms receipt of latest request from railway families
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has received a complaint from 22 Cambodians who say the lender is falling short in its efforts to fix the mistakes it has made in planning and carrying out its ongoing rehabilitation of the country’s dilapidated railway tracks. ...
Zsombor Peter and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-confirms-receipt-of-latest-request-from-railway-families-93266/
Vietnam starts building new bridge to Cambodia
Construction began Monday on the Tan An Bridge on a key transport route connecting the southern province of An Giang’s Tan Chau Town and Cambodia’s Phnom Penh via the Vinh Xuong International Border Gate. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/world/vietnam-starts-building-new-bridge-to-cambodia-13245
Industrial ambitions face thirsty future
Cambodia’s new industrial development policy calls for more factories and special economic zones, but accomplishing this will be difficult. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15199/industrial-ambitions-face-thirsty-future/
Railway families seek more money for move
Dozens of families living along the railway tracks in Banteay Meanchey province have been told they must be relocated as the authorities prepare to construct roads and renovate the line. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-families-seek-more-money-move
The opposition party’s president says fund for its TVs establishment reach nearly $1 million
President of the opposition, Cambodia National Rescue Party Sam Rainsy said fund raising for its party’s own TV station reached nearly $1 million. ...
The Star Online News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/the-opposition-party%E2%80%99s-president-says-fund-for-its-tvs-establishment-reach-nearly-1-million-8905
Railway families file separate complaint against ADB bank
Another group of families living along Cambodia’s dilapidated railway tracks is filing a complaint with the compliance review panel of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), accusing the lender of failing to abide by its own resettlement policies. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/railway-families-file-separate-complaint-against-adb-bank-92933/
Cambodia’s Sky Angkor wet-leases SSJ100 from Red Wings
an agreement to wet lease a Sukhoi Civil Aircraft Co. (SCAC) Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ100) to Sky Angkor Airlines of Cambodia. ...
Polina Montag-Girmes
http://atwonline.com/leasing/cambodia-s-sky-angkor-wet-leases-ssj100-red-wings
Thailand to restore rail link with Cambodia
Thailand is hoping to resurrect a rail link with Cambodia to improve transport in the Mekong sub-region, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha said on Thursday. ...
Patsara Jikkham
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/671340/thailand-to-restore-rail-link-with-cambodia
Arsenic in well water poisoning the most vulnerable
Villagers in Preak Russey have learned that red means arsenic. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15002//
Website names no longer as easy as 'ABC'
For English speakers, it’s easy to take for granted opening a web browser and typing in a URL. But what do people do when their languages have Chinese characters or Vietnamese tone markers? Such needs are greatest in the developing world, where English is less ...
Lien Hoang
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/website-names-no-longer-as-easy-as-abc/2931391.html
Viet Nam, Cambodia facilitate cross-border transport
Viet Nam and Cambodia reached agreements on a range of transport issues at a ministerial meeting held in Ha Noi on Saturday. ...
Viet Nam News Staff
http://vietnamnews.vn/politics-laws/274886/viet-nam-cambodia-facilitate-cross-border-transport.html
Cambodia hails Chinese firm for helping develop telecom industry
Cambodian Minister of Post and Telecommunications Prak Sokhonn on Sunday praised Chinese-owned Southeast Asia Telecom (Cambodia), or SEATEL, for investing a huge amount of capital in the development of 4G services in Cambodia. ...
Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=299208
Hor Namhong wants water institute built locally
Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong on Thursday requested that China construct its planned regional water resources institute in Cambodia, during a meeting with China’s special rapporteur in charge of Asia affairs, a spokesman said. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hor-namhong-wants-water-institute-built-locally-92215/
Market plans inspire rally
Nearly 200 vendors from Phnom Penh’s Doeum Kor Market gathered in Wat Botum Park yesterday to offer a petition asking Prime Minister Hun Sen to block city plans to demolish and replace the market with a multi-storey building. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/market-plans-inspire-rally
New Zealand FM to visit Cambodia next week, air services pact expected to be signed
New Zealand Foreign Minister Murray McCully will pay a two-day visit to Cambodia from Aug. 18 to 19, where he will sign an agreement on air services, according to a press statement from the Cambodian Foreign Ministry on Thursday. ...
National Road 5 expansion on track
The expansion of the National Road 5, an integral highway that is being developed to enhance connectivity between Thailand and Vietnam, is on schedule to commence at the end of 2015. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/national-road-5-expansion-track
Port at Sihanoukville sees growth in imports, exports
The number of cargo and cruise ships moving in and out of the port at Sihanoukville continues to increase. More than 2.2 million tons of cargo moved through the port in the first seven months of this year, officials say, an increase of some 200,000 ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/port-at-sihanoukville-sees-growth-in-imports-exports/2915138.html
Opposition eyeing plot of land for TV station
The Cambodian National Rescue Party has started negotiations to buy land in Kandal’s Kien Svay district for its television station Sun TV. ...
Shaun Turton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/opposition-eyeing-plot-land-tv-station