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Experts: Luxury hotel closures related to internal issues
- 2 January 2020
A number of four-star and five-star hotels have recently announced the closure of their businesses citing economic reasons for their demise. Tourism experts have said that business closures are not a bad sign for tourism in general. The 23-year-old former Inter-continental in Phnom Penh -The Great Duke Hotel - announced the closure of its operations on 31 December with an economic downturn cit...
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Ministry of Environment approves the 20 hectares construction stone site
- 6 December 2019
The Ministry of Environment supports the 20.92 hectares construction stone site located in the Phnom Srouch Mountain of Kampong Speu Province on the first Environmental Social Impact Assessment Report (IESIA) report. According to a post on the ministry's Facebook page on 4 December, the project has been assessed and the ministry pointed out seven points to ensure proper compliance with environm...
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Close to 200 Construction Sites in Preah Sihanoukville Called by Land Ministry and Provincial Authority
- 5 December 2019
The Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) in collaboration with the Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration have held a public meeting on construction safety and quality with around 195 construction site owners attended, said Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration. During the 4 December meeting, H.E Lao Tip Seiha, Secretary of State of the MLMUPC instructed the...
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Draft Law on Land Management and Urban Expected to be Approved next year
- 27 November 2019
Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning, and Construction is working to accelerate the compiling of the draft law on land management and urban planning to reply to the increasing development of urban, real estate and construction. Speaking at the urban forum on Smart, Sustainable and Inclusive Urban Development on November 27, the ministry’s secretary of state H.E. Pen Sophal said that the ...
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Ministry Orders Gold Tower 42 to Suspend Construction
- 21 November 2019
The Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) issued a temporary moratorium on the construction of the Gold Tower 42 on 20 November and ordered the company to fulfill the required safety conditions before construction could resume. The letter ordered Lee Sun-hum, a representative of Yon Woo (Cambodia), the owner of Gold Tower 42, to suspend construction from the date...
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Condominium purchasers can finally feel relief
- 15 November 2019
By Eric Wong Chon Lap This is the year when condominium end-user purchasers can feel relief, with many developers saying that they will concentrate on completing their existing developments, and also focus on the unsold condominium inventory in response to the weaker demand, partly due to surge of condominium inventory in recent years. The reason end-user purchasers should be cheerful is that m...
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Land ministry makes new construction law publicly available
- 8 November 2019
The Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) has published the entire contents of the new construction law which His Majesty King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia signed on 02 November 2019 following ratification by the National Assembly. According to a post on the ministry’s Facebook page on 07 November, the entire law is now available so the public, especially those en...
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Deputy Prime Minister demands single standard for new road construction in Sihanoukville
- 28 October 2019
Cambodia's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) H.E Chea Sophara has instructed the contractor for road construction in Sihanoukville to ensure a single standard of construction for the road building in the province. The instruction came as the construction contract for 34 roads in Sihanoukville using a US$100 million bud...
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Cambodia drafting port law
- 23 October 2019
On 17-18 October, a workshop conducted by the Ministry of Public Works and Transportation in cooperation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and joined by the Phnom Penh Autonomous Port, Sihanoukville Autonomous Port and private port companies focused on the drafting of an effective port law. The port law would help gain more ship entries to the country and promote nationa...
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Why does Cambodia need to draft construction law?
- 23 September 2019
The Ministry of Land Management Urban Planning and Construction (MLMUPC) has drafted a law on construction, which was endorsed by the Council of Ministers in August. But why does Cambodia need to draft the law on construction? The 31-page draft construction law is divided into 22 chapters and 113 articles and was initially compiled in 2017 by MLMUPC with inputs provided from experts at Japan’s ...
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