Tea Banh son gets Siem Reap post

Defence Minister Tea Banh’s son has been appointed a deputy governor of Siem Reap province by Prime Minister Hun Sen. Major General Tea Seiha said he had not been told about the appointment officially so could not give a date for when he would take up ...

Ros Chanveasna
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/39696/tea-banh-son-gets-siem-reap-post/

Phnom Penh acquires two new deputy governors

The government has tapped two officials to become new deputy governors in Phnom Penh, including former Pursat Provincial Deputy Governor Keut Che, and Nuon Pharath, a staffer at the Council of Ministers with close ties to the youth organisation led by the premier’s youngest son. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-acquires-two-new-deputy-governors

City Hall lays plans for permanent cable bridge

A planned temporary bridge north of the Cambodia-Japan-Friendship Bridge will be replaced by a large and permanent cable-stayed bridge once renovation of the latter bridge is complete, a City Hall spokesman said yesterday. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-lays-plans-permanent-cable-bridge

City buses to expand to new routes

Phnom Penh’s city bus municipal public transit system will be adding five bus routes to its existing network in mid-July, City Hall spokesman Met Measpheakdey said yesterday. ...

Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-buses-expand-new-routes

Jet’s to expand night market

Following the popularity of Cambodia’s first-ever container night market, the company behind the project said it is investing an additional $500,000 to expand the open-air facility with an annex scheduled to open next month. ...

Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/jets-expand-night-market

White Building locals get Ministry send-off

The Land Management Ministry hosted a farewell party for residents of Phnom Penh’s iconic but crumbling White Building Saturday, serving up large quantities of noodles and bringing in Buddhist monks to bless the residents before they move. ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-locals-get-ministry-send

Move-out begins at White Building; no official deadline set

As residents began to move out of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Tuesday, government officials were also present, handing out documentation to those leaving while microfinance staff offered their services.While some residents piled their possessions into trucks or blocked narrow hallways with unwanted goods, ...

Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/move-begins-white-building-no-official-deadline-set-131081/

Trash piles will get picked up, eventually

Phnom Penh’s sole garbage hauler says it will need another week to collect thousands of tons of fetid garbage that piled up over the weekend when workers left the capital to vote in Sunday’s commune elections. ...

Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trash-piles-will-get-picked-up-eventually-131068/

Canal-side community will receive new plots, land titles

More than 400 Phnom Penh families living along a canal in Meanchey district will be granted land titles after development to the area’s defunct drainage system takes place, officials said. ...

Phan Soumy and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/canal-side-community-will-receive-new-plots-land-titles-130571/

Government complex unveiled in Siem Reap

After two years and seven months of construction, a new complex housing 26 provincial departments in Siem Reap was officially inaugurated on land that once belonged to the Apsara Authority. ...

Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-complex-unveiled-siem-reap

City Hall considering relocating warehouses

Speaking at a pagoda inauguration on Saturday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said City Hall is looking to move warehouses and automobile repair shops out of the city centre to the outskirts to reduce pollution and traffic congestion – a move Hun Sen’s sister Hun ...

Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-considering-relocating-warehouses

Problematic roundabout to get $1 million accompaniment

Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) aims to begin construction work on a sidewalk at the Neang Kong Hing roundabout near the Olympic Stadium in the third quarter of 2017, in a move it says could cut traffic accidents. ...

Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/problematic-roundabout-get-1-million-accompaniment

Japanese aid scheme stalls at the lights

Japan inked the $16 million deal through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in February 2016. However Chou Kimtry, deputy director of the municipal department of transport, said yesterday the traffic lights will not be operational until February 2018. ...

Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37732/japanese-aid-scheme-stalls-at-the-lights/

White Building families agree to price drop

About 85 percent of 493 families being asked to sell their White Building homes have dropped their asking price to $1,800 per square meter, but insist they will not negotiate any lower. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37566/white-building-families-agree-to-price-drop/

PM: new road could be a runway

Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Defense Minister General Tea Banh to study whether Phnom Penh’s biggest boulevard could be used for emergency plane landings.   ...

Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37189/pm--new-road-could-be-a-runway/

City Hall, Wing deal for bus tickets

Passengers using the Phnom Penh city bus service will now have a choice of buying electronic tickets through Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialized Bank – the kingdom’s leading mobile banking services provider. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37033/city-hall--wing-deal-for-bus-tickets/

City Hall pledges not to evict protesters

More than 100 adults and children representing six rail-side communities in Phnom Penh gathered at City Hall again yesterday, demanding to know if development plans will force them out of their homes. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36997/city-hall-pledges-not-to-evict-protesters/

Residents protest at road plans

A group of 70 people from six communities in Phnom Penh have petitioned City Hall to clarify how the construction of rail side roads will affect them, amid fears they could lose their homes. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36528/residents-protest-at-road-plans/

Families want road expansion scaled back

About 40 families asked the government last week to review road expansion plans at Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov Bridge, saying the proposed dimensions would force them to lose property and even parts of their homes. ...

Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-want-road-expansion-scaled-back

Green light: new signals to speed up city’s traffic prospects

As part of an ongoing Japan-funded project to reduce congestion in the capital’s clogged streets, City Hall turned on three new traffic lights on Wednesday in Phnom Penh—with two more set to follow today.   ...

Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/green-light-new-signals-to-speed-up-citys-traffic-prospects-126306/

Deadline set for Borei Keila

Phnom Penh authorities yesterday gave the remaining 15 families from the Borei Keila community one month to accept a settlement and end their long-running land dispute. ...

Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36223/deadline-set-for-borei-keila/

South coast holds development key

Real estate and hotel developers have identified the southern coast of Cambodia as having tourism potential to encourage more business investment. ...

Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36111/south-coast-holds-development-key/

New ultimatum from city in OCIC dispute

City Hall issued another deadline yesterday to land disputants affected by a satellite city development on Chroy Changvar, telling them to voluntarily part with 90 percent of their land or risk losing it all. ...

Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ultimatum-city-ocic-dispute

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