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Transport infrastructure and facilities
Road safety efforts ‘insufficient’
A new study warns that a UN initiative to cut global road deaths in half by 2020 is on course to fail amid “clearly insufficient” efforts, with middle- and lower-income countries such as Cambodia at the forefront of the battle. ...
Charles Parkinson
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-safety-efforts-insufficient
In bid to increase helmet use, campaign focuses on fines
With a new traffic law set to come into force next year, officials and NGOs Thursday announced an aggressive campaign to tell people that failing to wear a helmet while riding a motorbike will threaten their lives and their wallets. ...
Meghan Tribe and Khuon Narim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/in-bid-to-increase-helmet-use-campaign-focuses-on-fines-98073/
Techno flyover to open for Water Fest
The Techno flyover on Russian Boulevard, currently under construction, will be ready to help ease traffic congestion during next month’s Water Festival, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/techno-flyover-open-water-fest
Gov’t pushes for more air connectivity with Macau
With charter air traffic between Cambodia and Macau growing steadily, the government has proposed adding direct scheduled flights to encourage more Chinese tourists and businesspeople to visit the Kingdom.Prime Minister Hun Sen proposed a direct air link during last week’s Global Tourism Economy Forum in ...
Sor Chandara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/govt-pushes-more-air-connectivity-macau
Air rage: Three Chinese passengers thrown off aircraft in Cambodia after scuffle broke out over plane seat
Three Chinese air passengers were thrown off a flight in Cambodia after a scuffle broke out on board before the plane took off, according to a newspaper report. ...
More Cambodians join pilot training
Five aspiring Cambodian pilots attended their first class yesterday of a 16-month flight-training program by Viet Flight Training (VFT) that will qualify them to be commercial airline pilots, making them among the first Cambodian nationals to earn their wings in decades.The five students are the ...
Ayanna Runcie
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/more-cambodians-join-pilot-training
Fewer tolls, better roads
On the afternoon of October 10, local officials and Apsara Authority agreed that, with a budget of more than $4 million, the local government would upgrade a 15-kilometer stretch of the ring road and stop taking fees and tolls from vehicles. ...
Naomi-Collett Ritz
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16953/fewer-tolls--better-roads/
Bassaka Air to refund disabled passenger following incident
Bassaka Air will return the $240 fee it charged a wheelchair user who had to be mechanically lifted onto a flight in Siem Reap in September, the airline said in a statement on Monday. ...
Kang Sothear
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/bassaka-air-to-refund-disabled-passenger-following-incident-96692/
PPAP cargo throughput up despite road rivalry
Cargo traffic through Phnom Penh’s Autonomous Port grew more than 6 per cent for the first nine months of 2015, with around 108,700 TEUs of goods passing through the port, according to data released by the port yesterday. ...
Sorn Sarath
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/ppap-cargo-throughput-despite-road-rivalry
Aviation body breathes easier as audit delayed
The UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has agreed to postpone an audit of Cambodia’s aviation authority until June 2016 to give the agency more time to prepare.Sinn Chanserey Vutha, spokesman of the State Secretariat of Civil Aviation (SSCA) said yesterday that his organisation was ...
Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/aviation-body-breathes-easier-audit-delayed
Airline shifts blame for ‘disabled’ fee
The Disability Action Council (DAC) said yesterday it would conduct an investigation of Bassaka Airlines and the Cambodian Airport Management Service Ltd (CAMS) to determine whether a $240 surcharge for a wheelchair-bound passenger qualifies as discrimination under the country’s disability law. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16267/airline-shifts-blame-for----disabled----fee/
Bassaka puts the blame on CAMS
The government has asked the company that manages airports in Cambodia to explain why, according to airline Bassaka Air, it demanded $240 from the carrier for helping a disabled passenger board one of its aircraft.Bassaka Air, which found itself at the centre of a media ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bassaka-puts-blame-cams
Overloaded truck causes Kandal bridge collapse
National Road 2, which links Phnom Penh to the border with Vietnam in Svay Rieng province, was backed up for more than two hours Wednesday after an overloaded truck filled with stones caused a steel bridge to collapse in Kandal province, officials said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/overloaded-truck-causes-kandal-bridge-collapse-95287/
Express road to airport in works
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport yesterday announced the start of feasibility studies aimed at building an express elevated toll road that would extend from Phnom Penh’s city centre to the airport by 2021.Public Works Minister Tram Iv Tek said yesterday that China’s Henan ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/express-road-airport-works
Plan for 10 km expressway unveiled
Construction of a 10-kilometer elevated highway connecting Phnom Penh and the airport is slated to begin next year, Minister of Public Works and Transport Tram Iv Tek said yesterday. ...
Ban Sokrith and Phun Chan Ousaphea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/16043/plan-for-10-km-expressway-unveiled/
Road delays in store
Phnom Penh Muni-cipal Hall has given notice of an expected 45 days of congestion from mid-September during construction at the intersection of Russian and Mao Tse-Tung boulevards in Tuol Kork district, asking for understanding from those affected. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/road-delays-store
Kampot holdouts take compensation, move out
Six families in Kampot City accepted compensation of $3,000 each on Monday for their houses situated on a road that authorities want to expand, after initially rejecting the offer last week. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/kampot-holdouts-take-compensation-move-out-93702/
Small Planet Airlines and Sky Angkor to cooperate in Cambodia
In accordance with an agreement made between Small Planet Airlines and Sky Angkor, the two airlines will cooperate flying tourists to Siem Reap in Cambodia from Chinese and South Korean cities for at least five years. Sky Angkor is the South Korean and Cambodian capital ...
Aviation Pros News Staff
http://www.aviationpros.com/press_release/12111947/small-planet-airlines-and-sky-angkor-to-cooperate-in-cambodia
Expressway planned from Saigon to Cambodian border
Vietnam is considering the construction of an expressway to link Ho Chi Minh City to neighboring Tay Ninh Province with investment of 693 million U.S. dollars, local online newspaper Tuoi Tre (Youth) News reported Thursday. ...
Xinhua team
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15269/expressway-planned-from-saigon-to-cambodian-border/
Buyout makes way for road in Kampot
A majority of the families living on a plot of land in Kampot City that authorities want to use to widen a road leading to the sea Thursday accepted a compensation package from the local government, a city official said. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/buyout-makes-way-for-road-in-kampot-93384/
ADB confirms receipt of latest request from railway families
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has received a complaint from 22 Cambodians who say the lender is falling short in its efforts to fix the mistakes it has made in planning and carrying out its ongoing rehabilitation of the country’s dilapidated railway tracks. ...
Zsombor Peter and Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/adb-confirms-receipt-of-latest-request-from-railway-families-93266/
Vietnam starts building new bridge to Cambodia
Construction began Monday on the Tan An Bridge on a key transport route connecting the southern province of An Giang’s Tan Chau Town and Cambodia’s Phnom Penh via the Vinh Xuong International Border Gate. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/world/vietnam-starts-building-new-bridge-to-cambodia-13245
Railway families seek more money for move
Dozens of families living along the railway tracks in Banteay Meanchey province have been told they must be relocated as the authorities prepare to construct roads and renovate the line. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/railway-families-seek-more-money-move
Railway families file separate complaint against ADB bank
Another group of families living along Cambodia’s dilapidated railway tracks is filing a complaint with the compliance review panel of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), accusing the lender of failing to abide by its own resettlement policies. ...
Zsombor Peter
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/railway-families-file-separate-complaint-against-adb-bank-92933/