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Lighting Up in Style, the French Way
A high-end retailer of leading French lighting brands is the latest addition to the booming Cambodia property decoration sector. In an exclusive interview, Kollian Koy, Co-Founder and CEO of Maison Bienvenue explains how the company plans to transform the market’s understanding of quality, craftsmanship and beauty in lighting. What inspired Maison Bienvenue to enter the Cambodian market? Mai...
Read MoreHow Bim Helps Construction Works?
Building Information Modelling (BIM) is now a leading system serving the global building industry during the construction period. Construction & Property Magazine spoke exclusively with Kaushik Chakraborty, South East Asia Vice President for Bentley Systems— a world leader in architecture and engineering software solutions - about how BIM can help construction works. What are Bentley’s serv...
Read MoreExchange Square Tops Off
"PT Sans"">Construction on Exchange Square, HongKong Land’s flagship downtown Phnom Penh development, officially topped off in June. mso-bidi-font-family:"PT Sans";color:black">Construction on the 16-storey, 53,200 square metres multi-purpose building began in September 2013. HongKong Land invested USD110 million in Exchange Square which will house offices, commercial space and a supermar...
Read MoreMlmupc Urges Monsoon Season Safety
"PT Sans"">The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction have urged construction sites to ensure safety measures after rain caused a sinkhole to open in the centre of Phnom Penh. mso-bidi-font-family:"PT Sans";color:black">Lao Tip Seiha, MLMUPC deputy general director gave his advice in response to heavy June rains creating the small sinkhole near Olympia City. "PT S...
Read MoreConstruction Boom to Slow
font-family:"PT Sans","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:"PT Sans";color:black">Despite seeing investment grow by a record-breaking 200 percent over the last year, the government has warned that the construction boom will slow down over the next five years. "PT Sans";color:black">The Ministry of Economy and Finance has pointed to an oversupply of building space and a decreasing demand for ...
Read MoreJapanese to Fund Java Port
"PT Sans"">The Japanese and Indonesian governments have approved in principle a funding deal for a USD3 billion deepwater port on the northern coast of Java, Indonesia. mso-bidi-font-family:"PT Sans";color:black">Following initial talks between the nations’ presidents in November 2015 the mega-port is set to be underwritten by low-interest USD2.4 billion Japanese loan. The remaining USD60...
Read MoreMeng Leng Eav Distributes Bosch Heavy Duty Power Tools
"PT Sans";color:black">Meng Leng Eav has been appointed as the authorized distributor for Bosch heavy duty power tools and Measuring Tools for the Cambodian market. "PT Sans";color:black">The business agreement has upgraded Meng Leng Eav Group as the sole distributor for Robert Bosch’s two main products serving the construction sector, i.e. heavy duty power tools and laser measuring tools...
Read MoreMyanmar Approves Massive Refinery
"PT Sans";mso-font-width:98%">Myanmar has approved a USD2.6 billion investment to construct a huge oil refinery and related logistics and sales facilities in the south of the nation. The joint venture company Long win Global Petrochemical Co Ltd will establish the nation’s largest refinery on a 300 hectare plot in the Tanintharyi region. "PT Sans";mso-font-width:98%"> mso-fareast-font-fam...
Read MoreTaiwaness Steel Giant Links With Cambodia Fuxin
"PT Sans";color:black">China Steel Structure Co., Ltd (CSSC) was founded in 1978. It is Taiwan’s first and largest steel structure company which operates three world-class fully integrated production systems separately located in Kaohsiung and Guantian of Taiwan and Kunshan of mainland China. mso-bidi-font-family:"PT Sans";color:black">These production plants produce steel structures for ...
Read MoreVietnam Replaces Rail Contractor
"PT Sans";mso-font-width:99%">Hanoi’s troubled Cát Linh-Hà Đông elevated railway project is replacing the contractor for the La Thành Station for failing to meet construction safety requirements and falling short on quality and progress. mso-bidi-font-family:"PT Sans";color:black;mso-font-width:99%">According to Vietnam News, inspections by the Railway Project Management Unit (PMU) on La ...
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