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The Heat of the Matter
Cambodia’s tropical geography makes it a hot and humid country all year round. This often creates harsh working environments for workers, especially in factories, which themselves also have to pay high energy bills for cooling devices. A Ministry of Labour official recently reported that as of June this year over 600 workers have fainted in factories, compared with a total of about 800 such inc...
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Construction Starts on Vietnam?s Tallest Building
Construction has begun on the Vincom Landmark 81 - a supertall 460m skyscraper in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. If completed now the 81-storey development would be in the world’s top ten tallest buildings. UK companies are at the forefront of the development with Atkins the lead architects, Arup the structural engineers and CBRE providing property services. The towering development located alon...
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Bosch Records Double Digit Growth in Cambodia
Since its official inception in Cambodia in 2010, Robert Bosch, a world leader in technologies and services, has recorded doubled digit growth in the local market. Robert Bosch products, in particular power tools, have been on the market in Cambodia since 2004. The company opened a representative office in 2010 to legally import the products and supply the market. Three years later, it launc...
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Kl?s New Airport Sinking
KL’S NEW AIRPORT SINKINGAsia’s fastest growing airport is facing criticism that its newly-built KLIA2 terminal is sinking after being built on swampland. The area around the $1bn building, which was completed in June last year, has been resurfaced, but its stands and taxiways still suffer from cracks and ponds of water covering the tarmac. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB), which oversee...
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Kerry Worldbridge Sez Breaks Ground
The $100m Kerry Worldbridge Special Economic Zone (KWB SEZ) which broke ground at the start of July expects to eventually create 25,000 jobs on a 63-hectare site 17km south of Phnom Penh, according to its directors. Consisting of a Customs Bonded Warehouse Zone and a Special Economic Zone, the joint venture between Worldbridge International and Hong Kong-based Kerry Logistics will be built in 3...
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Camcona Distributes Brands of Choice
Capitalizing on the booming construction market, Camcona Trading has introduced three leading global brands to Cambodia; Rinnai, producers of innovative water heater systems; Ligman, the professional lighting solutions specialists; and Imer, Italy’s premier manufacturer of construction machinery. Speaking at the launch event on 5 August, Ms. Elida Kimsrun, Managing Director of Cambodia Trading ...
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Jv Auto Part Plant Set for Sez
Thailand’s leather product company Chai Wattana Tannery Group (CWT) has entered a joint venture for an automotive seat cover manufacturing plant in the Sanco SEZ Industrial Estate on the Thai-Cambodia border. The $7.35 million joint venture, will see CWT invest 25 per cent of the total with a 75 per cent stake held by NHK Thailand, Toyota Tsusho and Koiwa Bond. CWT’s managing director Weerap...
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Architect and Design Trend
LEGO INSPIRES THE FUTURE OF CONSTRUCTION DESIGN Though it is best known around the world for products which develop children’s creativity through playing and learning, LEGO continues to inspire the future of construction design for adults. LEGO recently launched its Architecture Studio set which allows ideas to be made into models based on the LEGO brick. Developed in collaboration with lead...
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Skytrain Still in Master Plan
JICA presented a transport master plan in a seminar on 6 August, emphasising using rail transit to ease traffic congestion in the capital. One aspect of the plan, developed in consultation with the government, is a rail line from Phnom Penh International Airport to the city centre. City Hall spokesman Long Dimanche told CPM that an Automated Guideway Transit system (AGT or Skytrain) remained...
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Global News
INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING TO HIT $9 TRILLION Global capital project and infrastructure spending will more than double to $9 trillion annually by 2025 according to a report from PwC. Worldwide, infrastructure spending will grow from $4 trillion per year in 2012 to more than $9 trillion per year by 2025. Overall, close to $78 trillion is expected to be spent globally between 2014 and 2025. ‘Capi...
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P.P ? P. Sihanouk Expressway First Leg of Master Plan
The first Phnom Penh-Preah Sihanouk expressway is to be constructed next year in order to facilitate goods transportation from the capital to the international seaport, according to Agence Kampuchea Press. Speaking at the press conference after a signing ceremony between the Ministry of Public Works and Transport and China’s Henan Provincial Communication Planning, Survey and Design Institute C...
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Construction Focus – Asean in Brief
THAI GOVERNMENT APPROVES $75 BILLION TRANSPORT PLAN After the Thai Constitutional Court ruled the Yingluck Shinawatra government’s plan to borrow $63 billion to build a high-speed train network unconstitutional in March this year, the new military government has approved a $75 billion scheme to upgrade the nation’s infrastructure over the next 8 years. The plan reinstates the high speed rail de...
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