Cambodia News
Phnom Penh Special Economic Zone (PPSEZ) has signed an agreement with a Singaporean clean energy firm to install and operate a solar panel system inside the 357-hectare industrial park, The Phnom Penh Post reported. According to the firm’s statement, Cleantech Solar Corporation will lease a photovoltaic solar system to PPSEZ as part of a pilot […]
Continue ReadingThe ambitious plan to build a nuclear power plant in Cambodia with technical assistance from Russia announced in November during a visit by that country’s premier was unrealistic at this time, a senior official from state-run energy supplier Electricite du Cambodge (EDC) said yesterday. “Cambodia is not ready for construction of nuclear power plant,” EDC […]
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Bangkok: One in five prisoners of war and forced labourers died on the Thai-Burma railway – one for every sleeper laid. Seventy years after jungle reclaimed the infamous death railway at the end of World War II, negotiations are under way to rebuild a track from Thailand to the country now known as Myanmar, as […]
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More than 30,000 foreigners had applied for work permits at Cambodia’s Labor Ministry in 2015 after the General Department of Immigration (GDI) had constantly inspected foreign laborers in the country, a GDI’s senior official said Friday. Speaking at the GDI’s annual meeting, GDI’s deputy director general Lt. Gen. Keo Vanthon said the fee for a […]
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A government committee has ordered tycoon Kith Meng’s Royal Group to stop construction of a passenger port it was building on Sihanoukville’s Otres Beach, which it said was in clear violation of coastal development guidelines and had progressed without a permit. The National Committee for Cambodia Coastal Management and Development issued a directive yesterday for […]
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SAMUT PRAKAN, Thailand – Hundreds of construction workers return home each day to a makeshift village of shipping containers, erected as a temporary settlement for the migrants on the outskirts of Bangkok. Each of the 12 blocks, which resemble giant yellow Lego bricks, is made up of two towers of 9 containers and has 72 […]
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Qantas has been named the world’s safest airline for the third year running, while 10 carriers have been handed the lowest possible one-star rating An annual survey of the world’s biggest airlines has seen Qantas named the world’s safest for the third year running. The Australian carrier was praised for its “extraordinary fatality-free record in […]
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Thailand will need to add migrant workers, draw more women into its workforce and delay the retirement age to battle an expected drop of 11 percent in its working-age population by 2040, a World Bank economist says. The fall is expected to be the fastest experienced by any developing country in Southeast Asia, said Philip […]
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Leading Asian online real estate company DDProperty has bought the Ensign Media group business in Thailand, including the Property Report magazine and website and the Asia Property Awards. DDProperty, which is part of the PropertyGuru group, says the deal offers Thailand’s real estate developers and partners the opportunity for industry recognition across Asia. The purchase […]
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The value of construction projects approved by the government in 2015 increased by 33 percent to about $3.33 billion compared to the previous year, according to a government report obtained on Sunday. The 2,305 projects approved last year by the Ministry of Land Management, Urban Planning and Construction covered approximately 7.7 million square meters of […]
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