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Kandal residents near new airport asked to take down structures
Kandal residents affected by the new airport development said they were told by company workers to dismantle small sheds they use to house animals, causing anxiety among people that their land could be cleared soon. Residents in four communes of Kandal Stung district have been affected ...
Pa Sokheng
https://vodenglish.news/kandal-residents-near-new-airport-asked-to-take-down-structures/
City Hall breaks ground on new $22M overpass
Prime Minister Hun Sen joined City Hall officials on Thursday to break ground on what is slated to become a $22 million overpass near the capital’s Choam Chao roundabout. This will become Phnom Penh’s sixth flyover and will be undertaken, as was the five others, ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/city-hall-breaks-ground-new-22m-overpass
China deals swiftly signed
Cambodian and Chinese officials and business leaders yesterday signed 19 agreements during a visit to Phnom Penh by Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, boosting Chinese investment at a time when the regional power has upped its economic and political support for Hun Sen’s government. ...
Hor Kimsay and Cheng Sokhorng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/china-deals-swiftly-signed
Olympic-size walkway
Construction crews will break ground this weekend on a new walkway overpass alongside Olympic Stadium as part of the Olympia City development project. The Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC) and a municipal crew will begin work on the walkway, which will be at a five-way ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/olympic-size-walkway
Families watch as land flattened for road
Helmeted state security guards on Thursday blocked landowners from entering their plots in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district as heavy machinery razed crude structures and leveled the earth to make way for a hotly disputed road construction project. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/families-watch-as-land-flattened-for-road-111621/
Chroy Changvar residents file petition over satellite city
Nearly 100 residents from six communities within Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district filed a petition to City Hall, the Canadian Embassy and the World Bank yesterday demanding intervention in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is responsible for constructing a ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21918/chroy-changvar-residents-file-petition-over-satellite-city/
Residents protest satellite city road construction
Roughly ten residents from the Kien Kleang community set fire to tires in protest of a City Hall development near National Road 6A, along which the majority of the community lives, after bulldozers began felling their fences and clearing their land. ...
Pav Suy
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/20543/residents-protest-satellite-city-road-construction/
Toyoko inn set to open
The three-star Toyoko Inn hotel is set to open next week, filling the gap in the capital’s budget-business hotel market. ...
Igor Kossov
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/12197/toyoko-inn-set-to-open/
Tires torched by angry Chroy Changva families
Angry locals burned tires on the Chroy Changva peninsula Friday to protest the building of a road through their village, which is at the center of a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodian Investment Corporation (OCIC). ...
Sek Odom
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tires-torched-by-angry-chroy-changva-families-81404/