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Techo Westerdam Tourism Park to be Built in Sihanoukville
- 24 February 2022
The National Committee for Clean City Assessment of the Ministry of Tourism plans to establish Techo Westerdam Park in Sihanoukville to attract tourists and commemorate the cruise disembarkment in 2020. The committee has set up a technical working group to study the development of the Westerdam Tourism Park in Sihanoukville, according to a statement issued on15 February. The working group is...
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Inter-Ministries, WB to Establish Standardised Solid Waste & Plastic Management in 5 Cities
- 24 February 2022
The Ministry of Interior has partnered with the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, the Ministry of Environment and the World Bank to study and develop a project to improve solid and plastic waste management in Cambodia. The project will be implemented with a US$60-million budget funded by the World Bank for a six-year period. According to the Ministr...
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Port EDI system testing over 90% complete, to put into real use by August
- 24 February 2022
As of this February, the Port EDI system testing procedure phase 1 has been over 90% completed and will be put into real operation by August this year, according to the following up meeting on 22 February Secretary of State of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport HE Ros Vanna said in the meeting that the system testing is close to completion, the remaining is to wait for Customs and Excis...
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AC & Concrete Roads Account for 50% of Over 18,000 km Roads Built
- 23 February 2022
The Ministry of Public Works and Transport has built a total of 18,125 km of roads across the country, of which more than half are AC and concrete roads. The figures were shared by Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport HE Sun Chanthol in the Transport Committee Meeting held virtually on 23 February. HE Sun Chanthol confirmed that Cambodia has been investing heavily in the devel...
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Gov’t to Help Resume Development of Unfinished High-Rise Buildings in SHV
- 23 February 2022
The Cambodian government has set out a plan to help attract new investors to continue the development of unfinished high-rise buildings in Sihanoukville that were affected by the COVID-10 pandemic in the past two years. The remark was made by HE Vongsey Visoth, Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Economy and Finance in a public forum on macroeconomic management and the 2022 budget law last w...
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2022 Cambodia Property Awards Announced with All-New Best Coastal Residential Development Category
- 23 February 2022
PropertyGuru has officially announced the return of2022 PropertyGuru Cambodia Property Awards with an in-person, safely conducted, exclusive black-tie gala dinner and ceremony to be held at the Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra on 26 August. The announcement was made during the media roundtable held on 23 February at the Sofitel Phnom Penh Phokeethra. The event was joined by Property Guru Asia P...
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Cambodia’s Construction Sector Improves Ranking in Region
- 23 February 2022
Cambodia’s construction sector has improved its ranking among countries in the region, with the score rated in January 2022 showing better performance. According to the GlobalData's Construction Project Momentum Index, the construction sector in Cambodia is also seeing fewer and fewer problems, with score on the index going up from 0.47 in December 2021 to 0.82 in January 2022. Within Southe...
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Local Firms, USAID Jointly Invest in Establishing Cold Chain Infrastructure in Cambodia
- 23 February 2022
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) announced two new partnerships with private firms to co-invest in the cold chain, agricultural storage capacity, and logistics sectors in Cambodia. According to the USAID announcement on 23 February, Khmer Cold Chain Company (KCCC) and Amru Rice will develop, test, and operationalise agricultural cold chain storage and logistics cap...
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Japan Plans to Invest in Building 2000-Unit Housing Project in Siem Reap
- 22 February 2022
Japanese company UR Linkage Co Ltd has unveiled a study plan to invest in building a 2,000-unit Japanese standard affordable housing project in Siem Reap. This project was presented in the 3rd Public-Private Forum on “Cambodia-Japan Urban Development’ held on 16 February. Named Sakura Angkor, the project is currently in the study phase and is a collaboration between Japan and Cambodia under ...
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First Wireless EV Charging Road to be Built in US in Michigan, Operational by 2023
- 22 February 2022
The United States has recently announced that it will soon build a public wireless in-road charging system allowing electric vehicles (EV) to charge while in motion and stationary. Israeli power company Electreon was selected to build this electric road system (ERS) in Detroit, Michigan, as part of the inductive vehicle charging pilot program. Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) wil...
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PM Rejects Criticism of Deep SHV Seaport Development as a China Debt Trap
- 22 February 2022
Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen once again dismissed criticism of the development of Sihanoukville deep seaport as a China debt trap, given that the port has been developed and supported by Japan. PM Hun Sen made the announcement during the ground-breaking ceremony of the Japanese-funded US$20-million Boeung Choeung Ek sewage treatment plant on 22 February. “The deep seaport is under Ja...
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Ground officially broken on large-scale Choeung Ek wastewater treatment plant
- 22 February 2022
The construction of the Choeung Ek wastewater treatment plant stretching over 3 hectares of land in Prek Ta Kong 1 village of Chak Angre commune officially began. The groundbreaking ceremony is presided over by Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen Japanese Ambassador to Cambodia HE. Mikami Masahiro. Built by Kubota-Metawater Joint Venture, the project is being built under a grant from the Japanese...
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