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White Building locals get Ministry send-off
The Land Management Ministry hosted a farewell party for residents of Phnom Penh’s iconic but crumbling White Building Saturday, serving up large quantities of noodles and bringing in Buddhist monks to bless the residents before they move. ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/white-building-locals-get-ministry-send
Move-out begins at White Building; no official deadline set
As residents began to move out of Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building on Tuesday, government officials were also present, handing out documentation to those leaving while microfinance staff offered their services.While some residents piled their possessions into trucks or blocked narrow hallways with unwanted goods, ...
Brendan O’byrne
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/second2/move-begins-white-building-no-official-deadline-set-131081/
Trash piles will get picked up, eventually
Phnom Penh’s sole garbage hauler says it will need another week to collect thousands of tons of fetid garbage that piled up over the weekend when workers left the capital to vote in Sunday’s commune elections. ...
Buth Kimsay
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/trash-piles-will-get-picked-up-eventually-131068/
Canal-side community will receive new plots, land titles
More than 400 Phnom Penh families living along a canal in Meanchey district will be granted land titles after development to the area’s defunct drainage system takes place, officials said. ...
Phan Soumy and Janelle Retka
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/canal-side-community-will-receive-new-plots-land-titles-130571/
Government complex unveiled in Siem Reap
After two years and seven months of construction, a new complex housing 26 provincial departments in Siem Reap was officially inaugurated on land that once belonged to the Apsara Authority. ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-complex-unveiled-siem-reap
City Hall considering relocating warehouses
Speaking at a pagoda inauguration on Saturday, Phnom Penh Governor Pa Socheatvong said City Hall is looking to move warehouses and automobile repair shops out of the city centre to the outskirts to reduce pollution and traffic congestion – a move Hun Sen’s sister Hun ...
Kong Meta
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/city-hall-considering-relocating-warehouses
Problematic roundabout to get $1 million accompaniment
Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) aims to begin construction work on a sidewalk at the Neang Kong Hing roundabout near the Olympic Stadium in the third quarter of 2017, in a move it says could cut traffic accidents. ...
Siv Meng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-property/problematic-roundabout-get-1-million-accompaniment
Japanese aid scheme stalls at the lights
Japan inked the $16 million deal through the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA) in February 2016. However Chou Kimtry, deputy director of the municipal department of transport, said yesterday the traffic lights will not be operational until February 2018. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37732/japanese-aid-scheme-stalls-at-the-lights/
White Building families agree to price drop
About 85 percent of 493 families being asked to sell their White Building homes have dropped their asking price to $1,800 per square meter, but insist they will not negotiate any lower. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37566/white-building-families-agree-to-price-drop/
PM: new road could be a runway
Prime Minister Hun Sen has asked Defense Minister General Tea Banh to study whether Phnom Penh’s biggest boulevard could be used for emergency plane landings. ...
Ven Rathavong
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37189/pm--new-road-could-be-a-runway/
City Hall, Wing deal for bus tickets
Passengers using the Phnom Penh city bus service will now have a choice of buying electronic tickets through Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialized Bank – the kingdom’s leading mobile banking services provider. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/37033/city-hall--wing-deal-for-bus-tickets/
City Hall pledges not to evict protesters
More than 100 adults and children representing six rail-side communities in Phnom Penh gathered at City Hall again yesterday, demanding to know if development plans will force them out of their homes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36997/city-hall-pledges-not-to-evict-protesters/
Residents protest at road plans
A group of 70 people from six communities in Phnom Penh have petitioned City Hall to clarify how the construction of rail side roads will affect them, amid fears they could lose their homes. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36528/residents-protest-at-road-plans/
Families want road expansion scaled back
About 40 families asked the government last week to review road expansion plans at Phnom Penh’s Prek Pnov Bridge, saying the proposed dimensions would force them to lose property and even parts of their homes. ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/families-want-road-expansion-scaled-back
Green light: new signals to speed up city’s traffic prospects
As part of an ongoing Japan-funded project to reduce congestion in the capital’s clogged streets, City Hall turned on three new traffic lights on Wednesday in Phnom Penh—with two more set to follow today. ...
Phan Soumy
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/green-light-new-signals-to-speed-up-citys-traffic-prospects-126306/
Deadline set for Borei Keila
Phnom Penh authorities yesterday gave the remaining 15 families from the Borei Keila community one month to accept a settlement and end their long-running land dispute. ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36223/deadline-set-for-borei-keila/
Chroy Changvar residents protest city ultimatum
Some 70 Chroy Changvar residents set to be displaced by a massive development took their grievances to Phnom Penh City Hall yesterday. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-residents-protest-city-ultimatum
South coast holds development key
Real estate and hotel developers have identified the southern coast of Cambodia as having tourism potential to encourage more business investment. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/36111/south-coast-holds-development-key/
New ultimatum from city in OCIC dispute
City Hall issued another deadline yesterday to land disputants affected by a satellite city development on Chroy Changvar, telling them to voluntarily part with 90 percent of their land or risk losing it all. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/new-ultimatum-city-ocic-dispute
Water taxis for Phnom Penh
A waterway passenger transport service via the Tonle Sap and Tonle Bassac rivers will be launched next year, bringing hopes of eased traffic congestion in Phnom Penh and providing a new option for tourists. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35259/water-taxis-for-phnom-penh/
JICA study on urban railway
The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) will conduct a feasibility study on building an urban railway in Phnom Penh, with the aim of developing a master plan to reduce traffic congestion in the capital. ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/35210/jica-study-on-urban-railway/
Heavy spending for Chinese New Year
Chinese-Cambodians have been busier than usual buying decorations and religious items for Chinese Year New which starts today.Shops yesterday were full of customers looking for decorations and other religious items. Flower venders near Sampov Meas pagoda in Phnom Penh were flooded with customers and sellers ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34805/heavy-spending-for-chinese-new-year/
Friendship city planned
A $1.5 billion new satellite city called the Cambodia-China Friendship City is to be built in the capital’s northern suburbs next year adjoining the Ly Yong Phat Satellite City. According to local media reports, the construction of the friendship city would be undertaken jointly by the ...
Chea Vannak
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32345/friendship-city-planned/
NGOs raise climate change risk
At a conference on the topic of the environment yesterday, civil society groups repeatedly raised the risk of natural disasters and hazards that Cambodia will face if the effects of climate change are not adequately addressed. The one-day conference in Phnom Penh sought to find solutions ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/32349/ngos-raise-climate-change-risk/