Australia Courted for Further Railway Funding

5 February 2013
The Cambodia Daily
Aid and development / Australian aid / Bilateral development assistance / Development Assistance Committee (DAC) members / Infrastructure / Rail / Transport infrastructure and facilities
Asian Development Bank (ADB) / AusAid / Australian aid / Banteay Meachey province / bridges / Cambodian Government / civil servants / Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong / King Father Norodom Sihanouk / Northern Line / Phnom Penh / Prime Minister Hun Sen / railway / railway rehabilitation project / seaport / sihanoukville / Southern Line / Thai Border / U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia

The government has asked Australia to provide more funding to help complete the rehabilitation of the dilapidated railway line between Phnom Penh and the Thai border, a spokesman said yesterday. Foreign Affairs Minister Hor Namhong met with Lieutenant General John Sanderson, former chief of the Australian Army, at Prime Minister Hun Sen's office building in Phnom Penh. ... An estimated $75 million to $125 million more is needed to fix the colonial-era tracks and many bridges damaged by years of war on the part of the line connecting Phnom Penh and Banteay Meanchey province. ...

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