Veng Sreng Street Upgrade behind schedule

16 May 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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The head of a construction company working to upgrade Phnom Penh’s dusty, potholed Veng Sreng Street said Thursday that the project would take twice as long to complete as expected. In November, Phnom Penh governor Pa Socheatvong announced that a 6.5 km strip of the road—which is home to a large concentration of the country’s garment factories—would be sealed and paved by the end of 2014. But Thursday, the chief of TCM Construction said that due to businesses and dwellings encroaching on the fringes of the road, it would not be complete before the end of 2015. …

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