Facebook, Google Join Hands Building Subsea Cable Infrastructure in Asia-Pacific

Two Silicon Valley giants – Google and Facebook – announced their cooperation in building a new subsea cable system by 2024 to improve internet connectivity across the Asia-Pacific region, reported The Straits Times on Monday 16 August. Known as Apricot, this large-scale infrastructure project will link Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, and Indonesia. It […]

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Construction of National Laboratory Phase II Complete, Officially Handed Over

Construction of the Science, Technology, and Innovation National Laboratory (STINL) building Phase 2 (Building B), located along NR2 in Sangkat Chak Angre Leu has been completed, with the handover ceremony held on 16 March. The handover ceremony was chaired between the Minister of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI) HE Cham Prasidh and the construction […]

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MPWT Establishes New Laboratory Centre to Strengthen Local Engineering Capability

Minister of Public Works and Transport HE Sun Chanthol this morning broke ground on a new laboratory centre building within the Techo Sen Institute of Public Works and Transport. The project costs US$580,000, co-funded by the South Korean Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport; the Korea Expressway Corporation; and Korea’s Institute of Civil Engineering and […]

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Gov’t Approves Proposed New Public Beach Resort Development in Kep

The Cambodian government has officially approved a project to transform a 2.7-kilometre-long section of muddy beach from the Crab Market to a mangrove forest zone in Phum Thmey village in Kep province into a public beach resort. The approval was revealed in a press release by the National Committee for Coastal Management and Development (NCCMD) […]

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Two Factories Worth Over US$5 million Approved for Kandal & Takeo

The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) approved two investment projects on Friday 13 August worth US$5.5 million for Kandal and Takeo provinces. The first investment permit has been granted to Collaboration Packaging Material Products Co., Ltd to invest US$4.1 million to build a bag and shoe accessories factory in Angk Snuol district in […]

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SHV Autonomous Port Posts 455% Net Income Increase in H1 2021

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port posted an H1 net profit increase of 455% y-o-y as it considers building additional infrastructure to meet the demand of service and economic growth. The port stated in its Second Quarterly Report issued on 12 August that the January-June net profit was 14,075 billion riels (approximately US$12.48 million), a year-on-year increase of […]

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Gov’t, Chinese firm drafting Mondulkiri airport project framework agreement

The Cambodian government and Chinese firm China Power International Group are speeding up work on drafting a framework agreement for the Mondulkiri airport project, in the hope that construction could begin soon after the framework agreement is complete. According to the State Secretary of Civil Aviation (SSCA)’s spokesman HE Sin Chansereyvuth, the talk has already […]

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SSCA Gives Authority to Provincial Administration for Battambang Project

The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation has stated that investors wishing to invest or study the feasibility for the Battambang airport project shall talk directly to the provincial administration. SSCA spokesman Sin Chansereyvutha said that there have been a few investors who have approached the provincial municipality directly. “They [provincial administration] have a committee and […]

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Construction begins on US$17-billion nuclear power plant in China

China National Nuclear Power has started the construction on its US$17-billion project of installing two Russian-designed reactors at the Xudabao nuclear power station in Liaoning Province, northeast China, reported GCR on 6 August. Xudabao 3 is a cooperation between China and Russian. Under the agreement signed in 2018, Rosatom’s subsidiary Atomstroyexport would provide two of […]

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Construction Agreement Singed on South Korea-Funded Start-Up Centre in Cambodia

The Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has provided funds to the National Incubation Center of Cambodia (NICC) in Cambodia, placing high hopes that the centre will help train and create more talented young generations in start-up businesses. The construction agreement for this project has signed on Friday 6 August between KOICA and construction firm PCF, […]

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