Infrastructure

PetroVietnam Gas Corporation (PV Gas) is the largest exporter in the Cambodian gas market, claiming more than half of the market share. In the 2010-13 period, Cambodia imported 6,000 to 8,000 metric tonnes of LPG per month. The amount rose to 10,000 to 12,000 metric ...

Cintri, Phnom Penh’s sole trash-collection company, said on Tuesday that the firm was not to blame for the capital’s trash-strewn streets and that the government was using it as a scapegoat to avoid accepting responsibility for the problem. ...

City Hall has revealed its three-pronged plan to tackle the chronic congestion on Phnom Penh’s roads, by reducing second-hand vehicle imports, introducing more one-way roads and changing the working hours of government employees. ...

Authorities have vowed to seize fireworks and punish anyone caught letting off explosives as Lunar New Year celebrations get under way today. The warning by the Phnom Penh municipality came as the Interior Ministry revealed plans to station more than 20 fire trucks around the city ...

About 300 tuk-tuk and moto-taxi drivers protested outside the Phnom Penh offices of the Angkor Thom newspaper on Sunday morning, demanding that it correct an article about a traffic accident involving one of the drivers, according to a union official and the newspaper’s publisher. ...

The Export and Import Bank of China has agreed to lend Cambodia 50 million U.S. dollars to finance a national broadband network project, the bank’s Zhejiang branch, in east China, announced Friday. ...

The Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone has 77 tenants from nine countries and 80 per cent occupancy, but high electricity costs and corruption remain a drag on profits. The main issue is electricity costs, says PPSEZ chief executive Hiroshi Umaetsu. “If [electricity] goes from 19 ...

South Korea has granted Cambodia USD 56.1 million loan for restoration of National Road number two from Kandal’s Takmao town to Daun Keo town, and National Road number 22 from Ou Chambork to Ang Tasourm. ...

During a meeting with Lord James Sasson, Executive Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings, at Phnom Penh’s Peace Palace, on Thursday, Prime Minister Hun Sen confirmed that the electricity price in Cambodia will be down from now on. ...

The government’s faith in Phnom Penh’s embattled trash-collection company appears to have finally been lost after the Council of Ministers announced in a letter on Tuesday that a shake-up was on the way as it considers rescinding Cintri’s exclusive right to manage the city’s garbage ...

The Phnom Penh police’s fire brigade is creating a new committee to determine the cause of a blaze at O’Russei market on Sunday night, an official said. The fire, he said, was extinguished within an hour and led to what vendors are saying equates to ...

Garment workers continue to die in traffic accidents on their way to and from the factory, a new report highlighting the deadly commute in Cambodia’s largest industry shows. In the report, titled The Dangerous Journey of Garment Workers in 2014, the Ministry of Labour’s National Social ...

Pressure is mounting on the Kingdom’s telecommunications industry to stay ahead of the game as the demand for data and mobile internet becomes a top priority for Cambodian consumers. As global smartphone manufacturers saturate Cambodia’s market in an effort to meet the demand for new technology, ...

In Cambodia, three women have been recognized for work that combines technology with efforts to combat violence against women, a major problem in the Southeast Asian country. Winning the inaugural VXW Award means the women will get assistance to further promote their efforts on smartphones ...

Phnom Penh is one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia. It added nearly 500,000 people between 2000 and 2010, for a total of 1.4 million. That has meant a lot of changes in a short period: more congestion, more markets, more housing. And, newcomers ...

The “temporary suspension” of construction works widely believed to have damaged Phnom Penh’s iconic White Building was officially lifted on the same day it was announced, according to a government notice. Large cracks appeared across the southern part of the historic apartment block on Sunday evening, ...

A draft telecommunications law is causing concern from rights groups, who say it threatens freedom of speech online, one of the few spaces open to political discussion. ...

The state-owned National Television of Cambodia (TVK) and China’s Yunnan TV station will jointly organized the 2015 Spring Festival Night Show on Feb. 10 in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, TVK’s director-general Kem Gunawadh said Monday. ...

The Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge – also known as the Chroy Changvar Bridge – will be closed until Friday starting today, to allow a team of Japanese experts to examine damage to support columns discovered last year, the city announced. ...

The British ambassador to Cambodia, Bill Longhurst, urged the Cambodian people in Phnom Penh to use public buses to help reduce traffic congestion in the city. ...

About 100 former members of the Dey Krahorm community returned to the site of their brutal eviction in central Phnom Penh on Saturday afternoon to mark six years since they were forced off their land, but were prevented by authorities from screening a video of ...

The Ministry of Rural Development plans to pave 1,200 kilometres of dirt roads across nine provinces surrounding the Tonle Sap this year, in a $120 million bid to improve the lives of rural farmers and reduce migration.​ The roads are to connect rural areas to ...

The opposition CNRP plans to screen the banned documentary film “Who Killed Chea Vichea?” this week to mark the 11th anniversary of the Free Trade Union (FTU) leader’s assassination in front of a newspaper stall in Phnom Penh on January 22, 2004. CNRP public affairs director ...

Electricite du Cambodge (EdC) has announced an $84.5 million project that will see the Vietnamese border town of Bavet connected to the Kingdom’s power grid. EdC representatives told media on January 15 that the Chinese government will in part fund the power grid expansion from Kandal ...