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Cambodia, Nepal Discuss Direct Flights, Opening Embassies
Cambodia and Nepal are discussing joint steps to promote direct flights between the countries and to open the embassies in their capitals in order to strengthen bilateral cooperation, a government spokesperson said. Nepal’s Prime Minister K. P. Sharma Oli is on an official three-day visit ...
Kann Vicheika
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/cambodia-nepal-discuss-direct-flights-opening-embassies/4919009.html
Chinese team ready to begin study on railroad revamp
A team from China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) is now in Cambodia and will soon begin a feasibility study on improving the Kingdom’s railroads. CRCC’s visit to the Kingdom follows Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s request to the company asking it to help make the ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50602595/crcc-team-ready-to-begin-study-on-railroad-revamp/
Villagers appeal for road access to disputed land
More than 100 families in Preah Sihanouk province’s Tracheak Chet and Bat Khteah communities gathered on Monday to submit a petition asking the Prey Nop district administration to order the Thansuor Chamkat company to open an access road for them to transport their crops through ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-appeal-road-access-disputed-land
Port cargo traffic at Sihanoukville sees 16% first quarter rise
In the first quarter of this year, cargo traffic through the Sihanoukville Autonomous Port rose 16 per cent year-on-year, according to Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol. Chanthol, speaking at the 133rd International Labour Day anniversary in Preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday, said ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/port-cargo-traffic-sihanoukville-sees-16-first-quarter-rise
New airport study set for 2019
A feasibility study on the construction of a new airport in the Kingdom will be launched later this year, according to a Ministry of Tourism spokesman on Monday. The plan was approved last week in a meeting held by the Ministry of Economy and Finance ...
Cheng Sokhorng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/new-airport-study-set-2019
Cambodian, Thai railroads to be connected today
The railroad networks in Cambodia and Thailand will be officially connected today in a ceremony presided over by the countries’ prime ministers. The Stung Bot-Ban Nong Ing Friedship Bridge will be inaugurated during the ceremony, which will also see the handing over of a diesel-powered ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50596619/cambodian-thai-railroads-to-be-connected-today/
Road safety banners installed on streets for New Year
More than 300 road safety education banners have been put up along the streets of every province for display during the Khmer New Year as a reminder of the dangers of careless driving. Asia Injury Prevention Foundation director Kim Pagna told The Post on Sunday ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-safety-banners-installed-streets-new-year
Phnom Penh to roll out free bus services during Khmer New Year
The Phnom Penh government recently announced the provision of free bus services on a first-come, first served basis to the provinces during the Khmer New Year week. The plan will see 120 buses deployed to “transport civil servants, armed forces personnel, garment workers, students et ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phnom-penh-roll-out-free-bus-services-during-khmer-new-year
Chroy Changvar bridge is reopened
The Cambodia-Japan Friendship Bridge – also known as Chroy Changvar Bridge I – was reopened at a cost of $30 million on Wednesday morning, after being closed for more than a year for repairs and renovations. The reopening ceremony was held on Wednesday and presided ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-bridge-reopened
Japan’s grants aim to ease Phnom Penh’s traffic woes
Workers are putting the finishing touches to the capital’s Chroy Changvar Bridge before its official reopening on April 4, in time for Khmer New Year. The bridge has been under renovation since October 2017, thanks to a $30 million grant aid issued by the Japanese ...
Husain Haider
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/japans-grants-aim-ease-phnom-penhs-traffic-woes
Ten K Speu mining companies allowed to resume operations
Some 10 of the 90 Kampong Speu province mining companies ordered to stop have been permitted to resume operations after meeting guidelines laid out by authorities, a Ministry of Mines and Energy official told The Post on Tuesday. The firms were earlier ordered to cease ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ten-k-speu-mining-companies-allowed-resume-operations
Ministry suspends licences of 90 mining companies
The Ministry of Mines and Energy has suspended the licences of 90 mining companies across Kampong Speu province for a week for failing to properly repair and water roads, tormenting residents with clouds of dust. Yos Monirath, General Department of Mineral Resources director-general at the ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-suspends-licences-90-mining-companies
Countdown to expressway groundbreaking begins
The groundbreaking of the nearly $2-billion expressway connecting the capital and Sihanoukville has been confirmed for March 22. The expressway will start at Tomnop Kobsrov Street, between Cham Chao and Krang Thnong communes, northwest of Phnom Penh International Airport, said Kong Vimean, spokesman for the ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50583762/countdown-to-expressway-groundbreaking-begins/
Airport committee set to suspend land deals
The committee on the new Phnom Penh international airport project development said on Thursday that it will temporarily suspend land business in sensitive areas that could hinder the new airport’s development project. Real estate sector insiders said the move will help solve the issues easily ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/airport-committee-set-suspend-land-deals
Rural road work continues to boost livelihoods
The Rural Development Ministry last year paved more than 40,000 kilometres of roads in rural areas to accommodate business travel. According to the ministry’s annual report, in 2018 ministry officials worked with development partners to pave 39,045 kilometres of dirt road, 165 kilometres of asphalt ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50574457/rural-road-work-continues-to-boost-livelihoods/
Kamsab removed from ports as Kingdom braces for loss of preferential trade access
The Cambodian government has begun a series of reforms intended to strengthen economic independence and promote business in the Kingdom, as they prepare for the possible loss of preferential trade access to the EU and US in the coming months. Prime Minister Hun Sen on ...
Factories to be moved out of Phnom Penh to ease traffic
A Phnom Penh city official told The Post on Monday that all warehouses and factories will be relocated along the capital’s new third ring road once it is completed in 2021. This will prevent heavy goods vehicles causing congestion and accidents in the city. ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/factories-be-moved-out-phnom-penh-ease-traffic
Sihanoukville expressway nears construction
A construction team composed of 200 workers from China has arrived in the Kingdom to begin work on an expressway that will connect Phnom Penh and Sihanoukville, with the groundbreaking ceremony expected before the end of March. ...
Chea Vannak
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50568038/sihanoukville-expressway-nears-construction/
Road repairs increased last year
The Transport Ministry repaired more roads last year when compared to work done in 2017, according to its annual report. In the report issued on Wednesday, the ministry noted it repaired a total of 9,671 kilometres of national and provincial roads, an increase when compared ...
Sen David
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50568071/road-repairs-increased-last-year/
Storm damages road, property in Koh Kong
Following two days of heavy battering by tropical storm Pabuk, Koh Kong authorities are continuing to repair the road alongside Bak Khlong beach, while locals mended their stalls and boats, a provincial spokesman said on Sunday. Sok Sothy told The Post that the weather in ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/storm-damages-road-property-koh-kong
Airport annex may displace villagers
Preah Sihanouk provincial governor Yun Min has informed 62 families living in the vicinity of the province’s Kang Keng airport about a potential relocation as the government plans to expand it. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/airport-annex-may-displace-villagers
Phnom Penh Port expansion set to boost Kingdom’s waterways shipping
The launch of the 2nd phase of the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port’s (PPAP) container terminal will boost the Kingdom’s waterway shipping through more trade capacity and reduced costs, according to industry insiders. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/phnom-penh-port-expansion-set-boost-kingdoms-waterways-shipping
Phone app to report road damage launched
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport launched a phone app on Thursday which allows the people to report problems with the country’s roads directly to the ministry in a big leap forward for road safety in the Kingdom. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/phone-app-report-road-damage-launched
Trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh is in planning
An assessement of plans to build a groundbreaking trade logistics centre west of Phnom Penh will begin soon, the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation said. An early stage feasibility analysis of the Phnom Penh Logistics Complex is set to begin early next year, supported ...
Hor Kimsay
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/trade-logistics-centre-west-phnom-penh-planning