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…
Will Tonle Bassac be the next Marina Bay?
Located on the western shore of the Bassac River and bordered by Sangkat Boeung Keng Kang 1, the Tonle Bassac Commune of Chamkarmon district is famous for its modern infrastructure and major mixed-use residential developments…
Street children miss school
The Alliance for Conflict Transformation on Saturday published a report into the challenges faced by children working on the streets of Phnom Penh, many of whom are unable to attend school and suffer multiple health…
traffic
Governor bans heavy trucks
Phnom Penh Governor Khoung Sreng has asked owners of container trucks, cement trucks and other heavily loaded vehicles to cease use of three main roads in the capital in a…
Daun Penh’s Used Car Dealers: A Protected Species?
Thousands of second-hand cars imported from America, Europe, Japan and…
CCTV footage unveils bribery at vehicle weighing stations
Source: Khmertimeskh Employees of heavy vehicle weighing stations have been…
Many See red over New traffic lights
Source: Khmertimeskh Despite Phnom Penh City Hall stating in March…
Urbanisation
Government eyeing low-cost housing
An estimated 7.9 million people in Cambodia will be living in urban areas by 2030, up from 4.5 million in 2014, with officials at a forum on national housing yesterday…
Political inaction risks Phnom Penh’s development
Source: KhmerTimes Endless traffic jams, apartment and office blocks lying…
An overview of media coverage of land and housing rights issues in Cambodia
Source: Phnom Penh Post Most residents at the capital’s White…
Hun Sen asked to stop military land seizure
Source : KhmerTimes Nearly 40 people representing 59 families from…
សេវាសាធារណៈ
How to do better? The burning question
Source : KhmerTimes The Phnom Penh skyline is vastly different today, compared with ten years ago. Back then, buildings were likely to be only three storeys tall. Some newer buildings…
Migrants get free rides home
Source : KhmerTimes The number of undocumented Cambodian workers being…
PPWSA ផ្អាកផ្តត់ផ្គង់ទឹកនៅសង្កាត់ចំនួន៣ នៅយប់ថ្ងៃសុក្រនេះ
ប្រភព៖ ថ្មីៗ រដ្ឋាករទឹកស្វយ័តក្រុងភ្នំពេញ(PPWSA) នឹងផ្អាកការផ្គត់ផ្គង់ទឹក នៅក្នុងសង្កាត់ចំនួន៣ រយៈពេលប្រមាណ ៧ ម៉ោង ចាប់ពីម៉ោង៩យប់ ដល់ម៉ោង៤ភ្លឺ…
Citizens continue water meter protest
People in Tuol Kork district’s Tuek L’ak Muoy commune affected…
Architecture
$5.4b bill looms for public investment
Source: khmertimeskh Cambodia needs more than $5.41 billion for its three-year public investment plan, a government report says. The plan involves 586 projects which include the social sector, economic development,…
Construction investment up by a third
Source: khmertimeskh Construction investment during the first half of the…
Poll fears hurt investments
Source: KhmerTimes Total investment in the kingdom plummeted in the…
White Building moving out
Residents of Phnom Penh’s White Building began moving their belongings…
real estate
Construction workers lament pay gap, labour laws
Cambodia’s construction industry may be one of the fastest growing sources of employment, however many workers remain unhappy with the labour laws governing the sector. The concern is compounded for…
Phnom Penh growing at a rapid rate
Urbanisation planning is very important for all 10 countries in…
REITs could offer investors a piece of the real estate boom
The Kingdom’s property sector is booming, but investment in commercial…
Ice factory shuttered over repeated gas leaks
Source: KhmerTimes Authorities shuttered an ice factory in Meanchey district…
អាកាសធាតុ
Tropical storm promises downpour
Source: khmertimeskh Tropical storm Sonca will bring average to heavy rain over the country from today until Thursday as it crosses from China to the Mekong river basin. The Ministry…
Country braces for bad weather
Source: Khmer Times Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on…