Transport infrastructure and facilities
Roads and bridges
Road development protests on Koh Rong
Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor Chhit Sokhon halted further construction work on Koh Rong this week following a protest by residents of Koh Tuich village, in the island’s most populated bay. ...
Jack Laurenson
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13023/road-development-protests-on-koh-rong/
Gov’t finishes sub-decree listing traffic fines
The government has finished drafting a sub-decree that lays out the fines that will be levied against violators of the country’s new Land Traffic Law, officials said Tuesday. ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-finishes-sub-decree-listing-traffic-fines-87545/
Mekong industrial belt taking shape
Backed by their government, Japanese firms are pressing ahead with plans to link the burgeoning industrial complexes that line a 1,700-kilometer economic corridor that runs from Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to a massive new port being constructed in Dawei, Myanmar. ...
Cam McGrath and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/13018/mekong-industrial-belt-taking-shape/
Abe plans Mekong development to counter China
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will meet the leaders of five South-east Asian countries in Tokyo on Saturday to adopt a new three-year development strategy for the Mekong region — a move that will rival China’s rising economic clout in Asia. The plan is likely to ...
Today News Staff
http://www.todayonline.com/world/asia/abe-plans-mekong-development-counter-china
S. Korean-funded roads opens to traffic in Cambodia
Roads built with low-interest policy loans from South Korea have opened to traffic in Cambodia, the finance ministry said Monday. The roads near the Vietnamese border in the Southern part of Cambodia, are part of a broader infrastructure project undertaken by Phnom Penh to meet ...
Yonhap News Agency Staff
http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/business/2015/06/29/0503000000AEN20150629005200320.html
City ends deal with firm operating tollbooths
Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday canceled a contract with a local construction company that had been operating a pair of tollbooths on Street 2004 in Sen Sok district to raise funds for the road’s ongoing construction and maintenance. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/city-ends-deal-with-firm-operating-tollbooths-84798/
Enforcement of traffic law still months away, official says
Although the long-awaited Land Traffic Law was passed by the National Assembly in December, a police official said Tuesday that the government would not begin enforcing it for another five or six months. The law is set to bring tougher penalties for many traffic offenses—including drunk ...
Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/enforcement-of-traffic-law-still-months-away-official-says-82339/
Traffic accidents, fatalities down this new year
Thirty-seven people died in 112 road accidents during last week’s Khmer New Year holiday, typically the busiest time of year on the country’s roads as people make their way to and from their home provinces to be with family. ...
Villagers’ request for crossing rebuffed
Demanding that 20 metres of a median on National Road 6A in the capital be removed to ease commutes to and from their villages, about 45 people protested outside the Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-request-crossing-rebuffed
Cambodia inaugurates Japan-funded bridge across Mekong River
Cambodia on Monday inaugurated the Japan-funded Tsubasa Bridge across the Mekong River. The suspension bridge, built at a cost of ¥119.4 million, allows National Route 1 to cross the Mekong River. At 2,215 meters, it is the longest bridge in Cambodia. ...
The Japan Times News Staff
http://bit.ly/1N0vCQV
Cambodia inaugurates China-funded Mekong bridge, road
Cambodia inaugurated a 1.73-km Mekong River bridge, along with a 143-km road, here on Wednesday in a bid to boost economic development and reduce poverty in this far northeastern region. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1Do883N
Smooth road means more tourism for remote province
At the Coffee Resort in Sen Monorom, the capital of Mondulkiri province, business is booming. In just an hour, about 50 tourists, local and foreign alike, come through, ordering coffee or avocado shakes to go. Coffee beans and avocados grow well here, and now, thanks to ...
Phorn Bopha
http://bit.ly/1IgUL3l
Japan awards Cambodia $230m in infrastructure aid
The Japanese government on Monday awarded nearly US$230 million in grant aid and loans to Cambodia. The loans are for a city transmission and distribution system expansion project in Phnom Penh and improvement of National Road No. 5, linking Phnom Penh and the Thai border. ...
Bangkok Post News Staff
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/asia/512492/japan-awards-cambodia-230m-in-infrastructure-aid
Truck owner to pay to reconstruct collapsed bridge
Police on Saturday tracked down the owner of an overloaded truck that caused a bridge to collapse last week in Kompong Cham province. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/truck-owner-to-pay-to-reconstruct-collapsed-bridge-80983/
New road at Poipet to boost trade ties
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that customs revenue from Poipet International Port on the Cambodia-Thai border was over $120 million a year, on account of heavy movement of goods across the border. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/new-road-poipet-boost-trade-ties
China-funded road work begins in northwest Cambodia
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Wednesday broke ground for the construction of a 174-kilometer national road No. 58 under Chinese financial support. Road No. 58 stretches from Banteay Meanchey province, which shares an international border with Thailand, to neighboring Uddor Meanchey province to the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/china-funded-road-work-begins-in-northwest-cambodia-8317
‘Scales are needed to stop road damage’
Following a directive by Permanent Deputy Prime Minister Keat Chhon to the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation to improve their monitoring of overloaded vehicles, a ministry official said they will build more vehicle scales. ...
Sean Teehan and Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/scales-are-needed-stop-road-damage
China hugely contributes to world economy, says Cambodian scholars
China has greatly contributed to the development of the world economy, even though it is still a developing country, scholars in Cambodia said Sunday. “China helped other Asian economies to recover from the Asian financial crisis in 1997, assisted the Eurozone to recover from the ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://bit.ly/1O1mABr
PM’s response to licence plate problem ‘too little’
Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on citizens to report the illegal use of army, police and civil servant licence plates, while at the same time defending the government’s regulation of the plates – a response that an opposition parliamentarian said was insufficient to combat ...
May Titthara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/pms-response-licence-plate-problem-too-little
Kids to get schooled on Traffic Law
High school and university students, considered particularly at risk of road accidents, may soon be taking lessons on the new traffic law if a proposal from the Transport Ministry comes to fruition. Tram Iv Tek, minister of public works and transport, yesterday said that the government ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/kids-get-schooled-traffic-law
New bus links plan between far South, Malaysia
The Transport Ministry is speeding up work on a joint plan for bus services that would link the far South and Malaysia to meet the needs of commuters between the two countries. Thailand also plans to hold talks with Cambodian authorities this month over increasing ...
Amornrat Mahitthirook
http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/491558/bus-scheme-seeks-more-malaysia-links
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 ...
April 1 debut set for new bridge
The Neak Leung bridge, which spans the Mekong River on the border between Kandal and Prey Veng provinces, will officially open to traffic on April 1, ahead of the busy Khmer New Year holiday, officials confirmed yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/april-1-debut-set-new-bridge
Road safety: Accidents ‘down over New Year’
The number of traffic accidents over Lunar New Year has decreased since last year due to more widespread knowledge of the upcoming traffic law, government officials and road safety experts say. ...
Mom Kunthear and Sarah Taguiam
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/road-safety-accidents-down-over-new-year