Transport infrastructure and facilities
Roads and bridges
Bridge not to blame, says ADB
A Battambang bridge project isn’t to blame for blocking a river and preventing water from reaching parched rice fields, an Asian Development Bank investigation concluded yesterday. Bavel district farmers accused the bank-funded construction project of choking the river since construction began in December, leaving their recently ...
Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/bridge-not-blame-says-adb
Battambang farmers desperate for local river water
With barely a drop of rain falling on their parched fields, Battambang farmers are pleading with a construction company to stop blockading the local river so their recently planted crops don’t dry out. The Asian Development Bank-funded bridge connecting Battambang and Banteay Meanchey has blocked the ...
Laignee Barron and Mom Kunthear
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/battambang-farmers-desperate-local-river-water
Questions over spending plan
The Council of Ministers on Friday approved a new five-year National Strategic Development Plan (NSDP) – the guiding policy document used by the government – requiring an estimated $26.58 billion in spending and investment, or more than $5.3 billion a year, until 2018. The plan ...
May Kunmakara and Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/questions-over-spending-plan
Cambodia aiming for road connectivity in 2015
Cambodia says it hopes to have road connectivity to Vietnam and Thailand by 2015. The connection would be part of Asean integration, a process where Cambodia lags behind its neighbors. Six countries of the Mekong River delta have worked toward linking by road since 1998, in an ...
Khoun Theara
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodia-aiming-for-road-connectivity-in-2015/1924443.html
After two men die in hit and run, a passive police response
Phnom Penh’s police force has had almost a week to investigate a fatal hit-and-run on Friday night, when a Range Rover slammed into a motorbike near the Ministry of Commerce, killing two men and seriously injuring another. But local police have not conducted even the most ...
Sek Odom and Alex Consiglio
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-two-men-die-in-hit-and-run-a-passive-police-response-59952/
By 2020, $9 billion needed for road funding: report
Cambodia needs $9 billion to be invested into 850 kilometres of roadways by 2020, according to a study by Henan Provincial Communications Planning Survey and Design Institute. From the Chinese province of Henan, officials from the state-owned engineering institute went to great lengths yesterday to explain ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/2020-9-billion-needed-road-funding-report
Cambodia mulls expressway development from capital to seaport, Vietnam
Cambodia is considering to develop two expressways in order to serve the growing extents of economy and trade, Tram Iv Tek, Minister of Public Works and Transport, said Tuesday. The first line will be from capital Phnom Penh to coastal Preah Sihanouk province in length of ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140527/cambodia-mulls-expressway-development-capital-seaport-vietna
Road accidents kill 961 people in Cambodia in 5 months
Road accidents have killed at least 961 people in Cambodia in the first five months of 2014, up eight percent over the same period last year, the latest report of the Interior Ministry’s public order department showed Monday. Approximately 2,106 cases of road accidents were reported ...
Global Post News Staff
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/xinhua-news-agency/140526/road-accidents-kill-961-people-cambodia-5-months
Hun Sen returns from fruitful week in China
Prime Minster Hun Sen arrived back in Phnom Penh on Sunday after a weeklong visit to China for an international summit during which Chinese Premier Xi Jinping pledged $145 million in aid and soft loans to Cambodia. On Monday, AKP reported that China promised to ...
Phorn Bopha and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/hun-sen-returns-from-fruitful-week-in-china-59560/
Two dead, one seriously injured in another hit and run
Two men died and another was seriously injured in a hit-and-run accident on Friday night in Phnom Penh when a Range Rover plowed into a motorbike in Toek Thla commune, police said Sunday, adding to a recent spate of fatal—and often high-profile—hit-and-runs. Thang Ratha, 23, died ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-dead-one-seriously-injured-in-another-hit-and-run-59553/
After strong start, city bus’ future unclear
After a monthlong test run saw 10 buses often filled with passengers, a Chinese-owned company promised in early March to inject millions into the project and add hundreds of new buses. But Global Trade Development left the project last month after the municipality refused to grant ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/after-strong-start-city-bus-future-unclear-58640/
RCAF plates still widely used, despite ban
When the 2007 Traffic Law was passed, it required that the myriad private vehicles on the road bearing Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) number plates be removed and switched with civilian plates within one year. But more than six years after this deadline, the sight of ...
Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/rcaf-plates-still-widely-used-despite-ban-58449/
Parking rules kicked to kerb
City Hall is turning its focus to Phnom Penh’s “anarchic parking” situation. Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong yesterday said the municipality plans to cancel old contracts awarding private companies the right to charge for parking in certain parts of the city, and introduce new restrictions on ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parking-rules-kicked-kerb
Developers see near completion of cable-stayed bridge as positive for trade and property prices
Set to open next year, Cambodia’s first cable-stayed bridge is now more than 70 per cent complete, according the government. Chhim Phalla, director of the Ministry of Public Work’s Department of International Cooperation, which is overseeing the Neak Loeung Bridge and improvements to National Road 1, ...
Siv Meng and Sum Manet
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/developers-see-near-completion-cable-stayed-bridge-positive-trade-and-property-prices
Helmet use means huge savings, study finds
The government could save nearly $100 million between now and 2020 if it passes the draft traffic law and enforces mandatory helmet usage as soon as possible, a road safety group said Wednesday. Madeleine Carr, an advocacy and strategic planning advisor with the Asia Injury Prevention ...
Lauren Crothers and Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/helmet-use-means-huge-savings-study-finds-58301/
Bridge project equals prospects for Phnom Penh satellite city
Growth in the property sector has been slow in Kandal province’s Ta Khmau City, 11 kilometres south of Phnom Penh, but that, industry sources say, is likely to change due to improvements to National Road 1 and the fact that the Ta Khmau Bridge is ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/bridge-project-equals-prospects-phnom-penh-satellite-city
New traffic law could save money and lives, study says
Better laws and enforcement that require motorbike riders and children to wear helmets could save more than 500 lives and $100 million over the next six years, a new study says. The study, undertaken by the Asian Injury Prevention Foundation, says a new law now ...
Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/new-traffic-law-could-save-money-and-lives-study-says/1909680.html
Families petition City Hall over wall built in road
More than 170 families in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district submitted a petition to City Hall on Monday complaining about wealthy businessman Khun Sear’s decision to build a wall in the middle of a road in their neighborhood. The road in Chak Angre Leu commune is under ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-petition-city-hall-over-wall-built-in-road-58176/
Military might: soldiers put end to Veng Sreng strike
Soldiers used force on Friday to end a strike at a garment factory on Veng Sreng Boulevard, where demands included a lunch bonus of 2,000 riel and an end to forced overtime, workers and union officials said yesterday. ...
Chhay Channyda
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/military-might-soldiers-put-end-veng-sreng-strike
More Phnom Penh residents facing possible eviction
Dozens of villagers in Phnom Penh’s Russei Keo district are facing eviction after the National Cadastral Commission announced last week that a number of areas in Tuol Sangke commune are earmarked for future redevelopment. The commission’s plans for new projects, including a road widening, were posted ...
Ben Sokhean
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/more-phnom-penh-residents-facing-possible-eviction-58031/
Flyovers, subway on the drawing board for Phnom Penh
The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) and Phnom Penh municipality are cooperating to undertake a study on major new projects for the city – two flyovers and a subway, each of which it is hoped would ease the city’s ever worsening traffic congestion. Touch Samnang, project ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/real-estate/flyovers-subway-drawing-board-phnom-penh
Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh expressway plans announced
The Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) revealed its plans Monday for a Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City expressway that will halve travel time between the two cities. At an estimated cost of $2.2 billion, the initial target date for completion of the expressway is ...
Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/phnom-penh-to-ho-chi-minh-expressway-plans-announced-57626/
ADB report finds gov’t shirking duty
The government is refusing to compensate up to 1,000 families forced to wait for income restoration measures after being relocated from their homes for an Asian Development Bank-funded railway rehabilitation project, a previously unreleased action plan from the ADB reveals. The ADB Management Action Plan, released ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/adb-report-finds-gov%E2%80%99t-shirking-duty
No scheme in place for congestion near AEON
Despite expecting 27,000 visitors per day, little planning has gone into tackling traffic congestion at Cambodia’s long-awaited AEON Mall when it opens June 30, City Hall said yesterday. There are 1,400 vehicle parking spaces allotted at AEON and 1,600 bikes spaces accessed via both Sothearos ...
Chan Muyhong
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/no-scheme-place-congestion-near-aeon