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Urbanisation brings opportunities, challenges
Rapid urbanisation in Phnom Penh in the past decade has created jobs and reduced poverty, but better urban planning, management and infrastructure are needed to avoid further sprawl, congestion and pollution, according to a new World Bank report released yesterday. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5097220/urbanisation-brings-opportunities-challenges/
City hall sets two-week ultimatum for Borei Keila residents to leave
Phnom Penh City Hall has set a two-week deadline for residents of the Borei Keila community to accept compensation offers and move out of the area. The authorities said they would take residents to court if they refused to move by the deadline. ...
Hul Reaksmey
https://www.voacambodia.com/a/city-hall-sets-two-week-ultimatum-for-borei-keila-residents-to-leave/4162381.html
Temple restoration gets US cash
The United States has provided $350,000 to the World Monuments Fund for the fifth phase of the conservation of Phnom Bakheng temple in Siem Reap province’s Angkor Archaeological Park. ...
Mom Sophon
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5095896/temple-restoration-gets-us-cash/
New food security lab opens in Sihanoukville
The Cambodia Import-Export Inspection and Fraud Repression Directorate General (Camcontrol) opened a new laboratory in Preah Sihanouk province on Wednesday to monitor food and ensure its safety. ...
Sok Chan
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5094714/new-food-security-lab-opens-sihanoukville/
Chroy Changva Bridge to close
The Chroy Changva Bridge will be temporarily closed for 21 months starting in early October to repair it at a cost of about $33 million. The Japan International Cooperation Agency yesterday released a statement regarding the overhaul of the bridge, also known as the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5083653/chroy-changva-bridge-close/
Freedom Park finally cleared of car brokers
The Daun Penh district governor yesterday said his authorities had successfully carried out an order from City Hall last week to clear all cars for sale around Freedom Park. ...
Sen David
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5080154/freedom-park-finally-cleared-car-brokers/
Temporary means to be constructed when Chroy Changvar bridge is under rehabilitation
Phnom Penh capital hall has planned to construct a temporary steel bridge crossing the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh to address traffic issue when the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge is under rehabilitation. ...
Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=108244
Drug rehab centre work to start
A ground-breaking ceremony will be held today to mark the start of construction of a $6 million treatment centre for drug addicts in Sihanoukville. ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5077549/drug-rehab-centre-work-start/
Sihanoukville port rides wave of increasing container traffic
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), which operates the Kingdom’s only deepsea port, reported a modest increase in container traffic during the first six months of the year, compared to a year earlier, a trend its director said should result in higher profits for the listed company. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/sihanoukville-port-rides-wave-increasing-container-traffic
Preah Sihanouk administration provides social land concessions to 176 families in Sangkat 1, Sihanoukville
On 28 July 2017, Preah Sihanouk administration, with participation from H.E. Yun Min, Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor, has made social land concessions to 176 families in Kbal Chhay, which is located in Village 1, Sangkat 1, Sihanoukville. ...
Ngo Somony
http://www.akp.gov.kh/kh/?p=191730
Apsara Authority grants home building permits
The Apsara Authority granted permission to more than 320 minor projects to build or renovate homes within the Angkor archaeological park in the first half of 2017, according to a report released yesterday. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5074028/apsara-authority-grants-home-building-permits/
Railway protesters seek talks
More than 100 residents living in Por Sen Chey district’s Ka Kab commune yesterday burned tyres while protesting over the construction of a railway that will lead to the Phnom Penh International Airport, claiming that people were not given notice of the construction. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5073738/railway-protesters-seek-talks/
Rail-side residents stage protest again
Nearly 100 people from eight communities living alongside railways in Phnom Penh yesterday gathered in front of City Hall demanding clarification on what will happen to them as their areas are redeveloped. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5066117/rail-side-residents-stage-protest/
Cambodia tourism to get Chinese help
China has revealed a plan to help Cambodia by establishing a comprehensive tourism development plan for Siem Reap province, home of the famed Angkor archeological park. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5065656/cambodia-tourism-to-get-chinese-help/
Plans for another ‘Hun Sen High School’ renaming canceled
A provincial governor’s request to rename a Siem Reap City high school after Prime Minister Hun Sen has been abandoned, according to an official and the school—a decision some have speculated was influenced by online criticism of the suggested change. ...
Rachna Thim
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/plans-another-hun-sen-high-school-renaming-canceled-132584/
White Building demolition soon to begin
The Ministry of Land Management yesterday announced that the decades-old White Building in the capital will be demolished starting July 17 in order to make way for a new 21-storey structure. ...
Ananth Baliga and Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-demolition-soon-begin
White Building holdouts
More than 430 of the 493 families who formerly resided in Phnom Penh’s White Building have vacated the premises, but around 15 families have yet to accept compensation packages for their apartments, according to a Land Management Ministry official. ...
Niem Chheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-holdouts
Emirates boosts cargo capacity
UAE-based Emirates Airlines inaugurated a daily passenger flight on Saturday connecting Phnom Penh to Dubai, with a stopover in Yangon, Myanmar. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/emirates-boosts-cargo-capacity
Malindo Air set for Kuala Lumpur to Phnom Penh service
Malindo Air, a Malaysian low-cost carrier, will launch daily flights from Kuala Lumpur to Phnom Penh beginning on August 1, the airline announced on its website yesterday. ...
Kali Kotoski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/malindo-air-set-kuala-lumpur-phnom-penh-service
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