Urban administration and development
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Political clout against litter
Cambodia’s Environment Minister Say Samal is a hybrid package. On one hand, he comes from a politically powerful family. This Saturday, his father, Say Chhum, is to be elected co-vice president of the ruling party. On the other hand, the 35-year-old Minister represents Cambodia’s rising, ...
James Brooke and Muny Sithyna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12350/political-clout-against-litter/
Garbage workers want boots and gloves
Employees of Cintri, the city’s sole garbage collection agency, are feeling the effects of their job as they go about keeping the capital clean. ...
Nov Sivutha
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12351/garbage-workers-want-boots-and-gloves/
Firm tests paid spots to curb parking woes in Phnom Penh
With Phnom Penh’s parking situation in “disarray,” City Hall has agreed to allow a Cambodian-Japanese joint venture to test a paid-parking scheme next month in an effort to reduce the number of parked cars clogging the capital’s streets, according to company officials. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/firm-tests-paid-spots-to-curb-parking-woes-in-phnom-penh-85636/
S'pore investors trickling into Cambodia real estate
Singapore property investors are dipping their toes into homes in the largely untested market of Cambodia, though in relatively small numbers. ...
Asia One News Staff
http://bit.ly/1KLNEV8
Ministry official rejects NGO report on city’s slums
A government official rejected calls from a pair of NGOs on Tuesday to do more for Phnom Penh’s slums amid what they described as an opaque land-titling system that has routinely failed poor communities. In a joint report, “The Exclusion of Urban Poor Communities From Systematic ...
Khuon Narim and Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-official-rejects-ngo-report-on-citys-slums-81606/
Construction firm to fortify crack in White Building
A Malaysian construction company building a hotel next to Phnom Penh’s iconic “White Building” has agreed to fortify a four-story crack that appeared in the apartment block in February, deputy municipal governor Chreang Sophan said Thursday. ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/construction-firm-to-fortify-crack-in-white-building-81324/
Eviction fears: Villagers on notice over flood remedy
The filling in of a canal in the capital’s Chbar Ambpov district has prompted local villagers to push back against looming displacement, district officials and community representatives have told the Post. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/eviction-fears-villagers-notice-over-flood-remedy
Gov’t to raise taxes to clean up litter in cities
Environment Minister Say Sam Al on Wednesday announced the creation of a recurring annual $5-million fund to help Phnom Penh and every provincial capital clean up their trash-strewn streets, especially outside homes and restaurants. ...
Aun Pheap
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/govt-to-raise-taxes-to-clean-up-
‘One-way’ or the other Sothearos expansion will alleviate congestion
The ever congested part of Samdach Sothearos Boulevard between the Chamkar Mon traffic lights and the Russian Embassy is getting a much needed expansion. Especially since Aeon Mall opend in June 2014 the major arterial road was used beyond capacity. Long Dimanche, City Hall spokesman, said ...
Phnom Penh municipality plans city expansion
Authorities are planning to further enlarge Phnom Penh by incorporating another chunk of Kandal province’s Lvea Em district into the municipality, a City Hall spokesman said Friday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-municipality-plans-city-expansion-80500/
Wat Phnom to be restored
The Phnom Penh municipality is finalising plans for a potential $1 million renovation of Wat Phnom, City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche said yesterday. The project, which will commence at an unspecified date, will focus on combating hillside erosion while restoring worn-out structures. ...
Taing Vida
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/wat-phnom-be-restored
Preah Sihanouk at center of new industrial plan
The Council of Ministers released a new policy on Friday aimed at boosting Cambodia’s industrial development beyond the garment and food sectors, placing Preah Sihanouk province at the center of plans to modernize the country’s economy. ...
Kuch Naren
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/preah-sihanouk-at-center-of-new-industrial-plan-79255/
Phnom Penh’s trash problem bigger than Cintri: company
Cintri, Phnom Penh’s sole trash-collection company, said on Tuesday that the firm was not to blame for the capital’s trash-strewn streets and that the government was using it as a scapegoat to avoid accepting responsibility for the problem. ...
Khy Sovuthy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penhs-trash-problem-bigger-than-cintri-company-78180/
Official talks future of traffic
City Hall has revealed its three-pronged plan to tackle the chronic congestion on Phnom Penh’s roads, by reducing second-hand vehicle imports, introducing more one-way roads and changing the working hours of government employees. ...
Chhay Channyda and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/official-talks-future-traffic
Growing pains, as capital keeps expanding
Phnom Penh is one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia. It added nearly 500,000 people between 2000 and 2010, for a total of 1.4 million. That has meant a lot of changes in a short period: more congestion, more markets, more housing. And, newcomers ...
Phorn Bopha,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/growing-pains-as-capital-keeps-expanding/2630483.html
Construction ends, resumes near White Building
The “temporary suspension” of construction works widely believed to have damaged Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building was officially lifted on the same day it was announced, according to a government notice. Large cracks appeared across the southern part of the historic apartment block on Sunday evening, ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/construction-ends-resumes-near-white-building
Residents file petition over cracks
Dozens of families living in Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building filed a petition to City Hall yesterday morning, urging authorities to put an end to nearby construction work, which they say has left large cracks in the structure, and demanding compensation. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/residents-file-petition-over-cracks
Battambang families told to make way for new park
Battambang town authorities have notified 600 families living in the provincial capital’s Prek Preah Sdech commune that they need to relocate due to the construction of a large public garden to beautify the city. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-families-told-make-way-new-park
Cracks leave tenants in fear
Residents of Phnom Penh’s historic White Building fled from their homes on Sunday night after large cracks suddenly appeared in the structure, which have been widely attributed to nearby construction work, sparking fears for their safety. A group of officials from City Hall and the Ministry ...
Sen David and Alice Cuddy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cracks-leave-tenants-fear
Bridge closing for inspection
The Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge – also known as the Chroy Changvar Bridge – will be closed until Friday starting today, to allow a team of Japanese experts to examine damage to support columns discovered last year, the city announced. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bridge-closing-inspection
British ambassador urges Cambodians to use public buses to reduce congestion
The British ambassador to Cambodia, Bill Longhurst, urged the Cambodian people in Phnom Penh to use public buses to help reduce traffic congestion in the city. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/british-ambassador-urges-cambodians-to-use-public-buses-to-reduce-congestion-8135
Cambodian ruling elite accused of crimes against humanity
Forty NGOs from around the world have called on the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague to begin preliminary examinations into claims that Cambodia’s “ruling elite” were accused of committing crimes against humanity. On October 7, British lawyer Richard Rogers submitted ...
World Bulletin News Staff
http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/150663/israeli-army-detains-palestinian-woman-in-w-bank
Capital tipped for ‘resilient city’ program
Phom Penh was selected on Wednesday as one of 35 cities joining a $100 million “resiliency” program meant to strengthen urban centres’ abilities to respond to shocks and stresses, including climate change, natural disasters, pollution and resource scarcity. “The intense growth occurring and projected for ...
Laignee Barron, Sarah Taguiam and Taing Vida
http://phnompenhpost.com/national/capital-tipped-%E2%80%98resilient-city%E2%80%99-program
Phnom Penh Authority explains about Psar Chas market fire
Phnom Penh City Hall on Monday denied that someone set fire on Psar Chas market (Old Market), saying that the fire was caused by electric fault in a store inside the market. The denial came after public as well as social media users said that arson ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/phnom-penh-authority-explains-about-psar-chas-market-fire-7719