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Freight rail services gather pace
Freight rail shipments have gained traction since commercial rail traffic resumed on Cambodia’s sole operational railway line in 2013, but Royal Railway, the private company with a 30-year concession to operate the Kingdom’s railway network, is pressing for more growth as it seeks to triple ...
Kingdom’s first abattoir primed for Australian cattle
After a series of technical delays and setbacks, Cambodia’s first industrial slaughterhouse is ready to begin operations and will start production upon receiving its first shipment of 2,000 heads of live Australian cattle in late May, the company behind the project said on 19 April. Ross ...
Low reservoir levels in Siem Reap affecting thousands
More than 1,000 families in Siem Reap province, Cambodia are facing clean water shortages as the water level at Baray Teuk Thla reservoir has fallen for the first time in several years due to the especially harsh drought conditions confronting the Kingdom in recent months. Keep ...
Chinese-invested giant sugar mill starts operations in Cambodia
Chinese agro firm Rui Feng International Company began operations at its 360-million-U.S.-dollar sugar production factory here on 19 April after spending nearly two years for construction. Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen and Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Bu Jianguo jointly inaugurated the factory, along with a 43,422-hectare sugarcane ...
Gov’t thanks Chinese for keeping dam open
“The discharge of water into the Mekong River proves again the good cooperation on water resource management between the Mekong countries and China,” the Cambodia’s Foreign Affairs and Water Resources ministries said in a joint statement. Keep reading ...
Phnom Penh to get new $23 million domestic airport terminal
A Malaysian company will begin construction on a new domestic terminal at Phnom Penh International Airport soon, at a cost of about $23 million. Muhibbah has a 30 percent stake in Cambodia Airports—which holds the concession to operate the Phnom Penh, Siem Reap and Sihanoukville airports—with ...
Royal Group in talks with China, Indonesia on proposed oil pipeline
Cambodian conglomerate the Royal Group is in talks with two foreign state-owned petroleum companies to conduct feasibility studies for an oil pipeline that would run from Sihanoukville to Phnom Penh, a government official has confirmed. Meng Saktheara, secretary of state at the Ministry of Mines and ...
New group set up to tackle land disputes
The newly appointed minister of land management and urban planning, Chea Sophara, has announced a working group to handle petitions and complaints lodged by land dispute victims. “The working group has the duty to meet and receive related petitions from protesters, coordinate and solve issues, suggest ...
New protected forests test overstretched ministry
The nearly 1 million hectares of newly protected forests the Environment Ministry wants to create by the end of the year will add nearly a third more land to the portfolio of an agency already struggling to manage the 3.2 million hectares it has. And ...
Concerns grow over Cambodian rice exports
Taing Chhung Ngy, director of market promotion at rice exporter LBN Angkar (Kampuchea), said that March’s sub-par performance was just the first indicator that the sector’s growth was decelerating. The decreasing amount of rice exports in March shows that the issues that rice millers and exporters ...
