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Sihanoukville highway due by 2023
The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration said a highway from Phnom Penh to Preah Sihanouk province will commence construction by next year. The decision was made after a study of the 190-kilometre highway was recently completed, setting in motion a $1.7 billion infrastructure project with a Chinese ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114710/sihanoukville-highway-due-by-2023/
Hun Sen lauds first Cambodian-built bridge across Mekong River
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday lauded engineers for constructing the first Cambodian-built concrete bridge across the Mekong River in Kampong Cham province. Speaking at an inauguration ceremony for the bridge, Mr Hun Sen said the bridge was the first-ever concrete bridge built across a river ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50114116/hun-sen-lauds-first-cambodian-built-bridge-across-mekong-river/
Money discussed for families set to be displaced by new Kandal airport
Officials are negotiating cash compensation for hundreds of villagers in Kandal province who will likely be displaced to make way for a massive airport project. Villagers and officials met at Kandal Stung District Hall yesterday to discuss the land dispute, one of several that have ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/money-discussed-families-set-be-displaced-new-kandal-airport
Villagers in Phnom Penh's Russey Keo meet with governor to discuss road
The governor of Phnom Penh’s northern Russey Keo district met yesterday with hundreds of villagers to hear their grievances over the planned construction of a road – and potential displacement of residents – along an existing unused stretch of railroad track. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-phnom-penhs-russey-keo-meet-governor-discuss-road
Phnom Penh airport train to start on April 10
The new rail line between Phnom Penh International Airport and the railway station on Monivong Boulevard is scheduled to open on April 10, according to government and Royal Railways officials. Hoeurn Somnieng, deputy director of the cabinet at the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, said ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/phnom-penh-airport-train-start-april-10
Hun Sen decries overloaded trucks
Prime Minister Hun Sen said yesterday that the majority of road damage in the country was caused by overloaded cement trucks. Mr Hun Sen made the comments while presiding over the inauguration ceremony for the Chip Mong Insee Cement Cooperation in Kampot province’s Banteay Meas ...
Khuon Narim
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107266/hun-sen-decries-overloaded-trucks/
New rail link with Vietnam on the cards
Plans for a railway line connecting Bavet city in Svay Rieng province to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh city were revealed this week by the Minister of Transport. During a meeting with Nguyen Nhat, Vietnam’s Deputy Minister of Transport, Cambodian Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said both governments ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50107086/new-rail-link-vietnam-cards/
Airport railway 50 percent done
The Minister of Public Works and Transportation announced yesterday that the railway line connecting Phnom Penh to the airport is 50 percent complete. Sun Chanthol said the project from the Phnom Penh train station to the airport is half finished and added that trains are on ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106736/airport-railway-50-percent-done/
Government seeking loan to repair national road
The Transport Ministry said yesterday it has asked the World Bank for a $110 million loan to upgrade National Road 4. Speaking after a signing ceremony with a Chinese company to repair two other national roads, Transport Minister Sun Chanthol said the ministry and the World ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106732/government-seeking-loan-repair-national-road/
Government signs contract for infrastructure projects
Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol yesterday signed a $44 million contract with Chinese company Beijing Urban Construction Group Co Ltd to carry out sewage and road improvement projects in Battambang, Poipet and Bavet towns, among other projects. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-signs-contract-infrastructure-projects
Hunton & williams advises on commercial close for $1.8 billion Cambodian expressway project
Hunton & Williams LLP is pleased to announce its role as lead transaction counsel to China Road and Bridge Corporation in a $1.8 billion public-private partnership (PPP) development of a 190-kilometer expressway in Cambodia. ...
Business Wire
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180130005036/en/Hunton-Williams-Advises-Commercial-Close-1.8-Billion
Families seek officials’ help in bridge dispute
Some 130 families in Preah Sihanouk province yesterday requested the intervention of provincial authorities to solve a dispute with their deputy village chief over the construction of a small bridge in their town yesterday. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-seek-officials-help-bridge-dispute
Bus service loses $150k per month
Phnom Penh Governor Khuong Sreng has claimed City Hall loses about $150,000 every month covering the costs of staff and other expenses to support public bus services. City Hall spokesman Met Meas Pheakdey said that although the state lost money, there were two important advantages to ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104614/bus-service-loses-150k-per-month/
Road sign plan seeks to boost safety
Transport Minister Sun Chanthol is to order all road construction companies to install signs at their worksites in an effort to avoid traffic accidents.Speaking at the closing ceremony of the National Road Safety Committee’s annual meeting yesterday, Mr Chanthol said he would order companies working ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50104210/road-sign-plan-seeks-to-boost-safety/
Train track to Cambodian border completed
Refurbishing of the train track from Aranyaprathet to the border is now completed, but the planned reopening of the rail link between Thailand and Cambodia will not happen soon. ...
Sawat Ketngam and Saritdet Marukatat
https://www.bangkokpost.com/news/transport/1400582/train-track-to-cambodian-border-completed
Government approves plan to relocate Phnom Penh’s airport
The government has signed off on a proposal to build a new airport to serve Phnom Penh and has earmarked land in Kandal province for the $1.5 billion project. ...
Siv Meng and Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/supplements-post-property/government-approves-plan-relocate-phnom-penhs-airport
Prime minister confirms construction of new airports
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said that the kingdom will soon be serviced by two new international airports, confirming the construction of new airfields in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap. Mr Hun Sen’s announcement comes days after the Council of Ministers formally approved on Friday ...
May Kunmakara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102797/prime-minister-confirms-construction-of-new-airports/
Ministry gets told off over bad road quality
Interior Minister Sar Kheng publicly chided the Transportation Ministry yesterday over the poor quality of National Road 8 and the ministry’s failure to maintain the eastbound highway that cuts across Prey Veng province, where Kheng is the head of the ruling CPP’s working group. ...
Mech Dara and Kuoch Masy
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-gets-told-over-bad-road-quality
Kampot’s seaport to break ground in March
With the bidding process for the project coming to an end, the construction of a new seaport for tourist vessels in Kampot will begin in March, a representative of Kampot’s tourism department told Khmer Times. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102228/kampots-seaport-to-break-ground-in-march/
Prime Minister supportive of water taxi system
Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday expressed support for the waterway transport system from Prek Phnov to Phnom Penh and to Takhmao city, which will be launched before Khmer New Year. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50102045/prime-minister-supportive-of-water-taxi-system/
Government plans one of world’s biggest airports in Kandal
The Cambodian government has approved plans to build one of the world’s largest airports in Kandal province, though key actors have yet to work out the details and one economist noted yesterday that the current proposal may be short-sighted. ...
Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-plans-one-worlds-biggest-airports-kandal
Chinese PM wraps up Cambodia visit, promising huge aid package
Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang has announced a series of large aid packages to Cambodia at the end of his first visit to the country this week as Cambodia turns further away from Western donors. A total of 19 agreements were signed to fund large-scale ...
Aun Chhengpor
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/chinese-pm-wraps-up-cambodia-visit-promising-huge-aid-package/4203509.html
Japanese companies to repair National Road 5
Two Japanese companies will repair a 135-kilometre stretch of National Road 5 from Phnom Penh to Pursat province in order to maintain the Asian Highway. The Ministry of Public Works and Transport and the construction companies held a signing ceremony for the road improvement project ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50101352/japanese-companies-repair-national-road-5/
Water taxi system to kick off by Khmer New Year
A public transport system based on boats, known as water taxis, for the capital is in its first stage of development, with officials saying it will be ready by April, in time for Khmer New Year. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5099604/water-taxi-system-kick-off-khmer-new-year/