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Land titles provided to residents in OCIC dispute
Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng said on Tuesday that residents affected by a Chroy Changvar satellite city development project by OCIC will have a solution soon. Sreng made the comments while granting land titles to 51 families who were affected by the project, noting ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/land-titles-provided-residents-ocic-dispute
Chinese firms to build new PP airport
Three enterprises, all Chinese-owned, have been chosen to build the new airport that will service the Cambodian capital, the company in charge of the project said. Cambodia Airport Investment Co Ltd said a total of five companies had entered the bidding process. ...
May Kunmakara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chinese-firms-build-new-pp-airport
Construction of new Phnom Penh airport on schedule
Construction of a new airport that will serve Phnom Penh is on track and could be completed as early as 2023, the developer said. Pung Kheav Se, chairman of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), the company behind the project, said they are now building ...
Sok Chan
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50667677/construction-of-new-phnom-penh-airport-on-schedule/
Chaom Chao project is underway
Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is developing the Chaom Chao roundabout overpass and subway, said the company began clearing the site on Tuesday after it met with authorities and other stakeholders to push completion by the end of 2020. ...
Hin Pisei
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/chaom-chao-project-underway
Residents rally over OCIC land dispute
Hundreds of residents locked in a land dispute with the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changva district yesterday submitted a petition to the Land Management Ministry. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50497921/residents-rally-over-ocic-land-dispute/
Money discussed for families set to be displaced by new Kandal airport
Officials are negotiating cash compensation for hundreds of villagers in Kandal province who will likely be displaced to make way for a massive airport project. Villagers and officials met at Kandal Stung District Hall yesterday to discuss the land dispute, one of several that have ...
Mech Dara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/money-discussed-families-set-be-displaced-new-kandal-airport
Government approves plan to relocate Phnom Penh’s airport
The government has signed off on a proposal to build a new airport to serve Phnom Penh and has earmarked land in Kandal province for the $1.5 billion project. ...
Siv Meng and Moeun Nhean
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/supplements-post-property/government-approves-plan-relocate-phnom-penhs-airport
Government plans one of world’s biggest airports in Kandal
The Cambodian government has approved plans to build one of the world’s largest airports in Kandal province, though key actors have yet to work out the details and one economist noted yesterday that the current proposal may be short-sighted. ...
Hor Kimsay and Brendan O’Byrne
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/government-plans-one-worlds-biggest-airports-kandal
New bridge to span the Tonle Sap
The Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) will spend $35 million to build a concrete bridge across the Tonle Sap River from the Sokimex gasoline station in Russey Keo district to the Prek Tasek commune in Chroy Changvar district. ...
Sum Manet
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5082569/new-bridge-span-tonle-sap/
Temporary means to be constructed when Chroy Changvar bridge is under rehabilitation
Phnom Penh capital hall has planned to construct a temporary steel bridge crossing the Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh to address traffic issue when the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship Bridge is under rehabilitation. ...
Mom Chandara Soleil
http://www.akp.gov.kh/?p=108244
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
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
Villagers reject City Hall offer
Chroy Changvar peninsula land disputants yesterday delivered a petition to the Ministry of Land Management rejecting City Hall’s proposal to take away 90 percent of their land for the development of a satellite city. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/villagers-reject-city-hall-offer
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/
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
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
Banker to lead Khmer-Chinese coterie
Banking pioneer Pung Kheav Se was appointed yesterday as president of the Association of Khmer-Chinese in Cambodia, succeeding Duong Chhiv, who retired after holding the post for 16 years. ...
Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/banker-lead-khmer-chinese-coterie
Residents plead for resolution
Chroy Changvar district residents affected by the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation’s (OCIC) satellite city project have again appealed to authorities to help them solve their land dispute, especially ahead of the upcoming commune elections, instead of the Phnom Penh city hall’s below market value compensation ...
Mom Kunthear
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/34306/residents-plead-for-resolution/
Chroy Changvar residents stop OCIC fence layers
About 10 villagers from Chroy Changvar district’s Prek Tasek commune stopped workers of a development firm from clearing their land to build a fence demarcating a planned satellite city. Commune resident Chheng Heak said six workers from the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC), which is developing ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-residents-stop-ocic-fence-layers
Chroy Changvar locals reject city’s ultimatum
About 40 Chroy Changvar peninsula residents yesterday held a press conference rejecting City Hall’s two-month ultimatum to part with most of their land or accept below-market rates to make way for a planned satellite city. ...
Touch Sokha
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-locals-reject-citys-ultimatum
Two months to claim land certificates
City Hall said villagers affected by the development project of the Overseas Cambodia Investment Corporation (OCIC) in Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district would have two months to claim the certificate of land policy before it would stop assuming responsibility for losses, according to a statement ...
Pech Sotheary
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/29893/two-months-to-claim-land-certificates/
Government blames development company for road collapse
A government investigation into the collapse of a road next to Phnom Penh’s Olympic Stadium during a flash flood on Wednesday has concluded that a powerful development company’s adjacent construction site was at fault, officials said on Thursday. ...
Ouch Sony
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-blames-development-company-for-road-collapse-113923/
Chroy Changvar road row pushes into day 2
A protest against city hall’s decision to clear residents’ land for a new road on Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar peninsula without paying compensation yesterday entered its second day. ...
Khouth Sophak Chakrya
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/chroy-changvar-road-row-pushes-day-2
Residents protest road planned near OCIC development site
About 50 Phnom Penh residents gathered On Sunday to rally against a planned road on Chroy Changva peninsula that will run alongside a massive $3 billion development project. The 12-meter-wide road will be located just 100 meters behind National Road 6A. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/residents-protest-road-planned-near-ocic-development-site-106262/