News Vinci wins €94m water contract in Cambodia Vinci Construction Grands Projets has won a €94m design-build project to enlarge a drinking water plant supplying Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. The customer is the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority,…
News Fleeing Chinese investors leave Cambodian resort littered with ‘ghost buildings’ The Cambodian coastal resort of Sihanoukville has been left with hundreds of empty or unfinished buildings after the collapse of a Chinese tourism and investment boom, Nikkei Asia reports. The…
News Cambodia to start $1.7bn canal despite Vietnamese, US concerns Cambodia will start work this year on a controversial plan to dig a 180km canal to link Phnom Penh to the sea, The Star newspaper reports. The Funan Techo canal,…
Markets Cambodia asks South Korea for help with $37bn transport masterplan Cambodia has invited South Korea to invest in its $37bn, 10-year programme of infrastructure improvements, the Khmer Times reports.
News Foster reveals design for Cambodia’s Techno Takhmao airport UK architect Foster + Partners has unveiled its designs for the Techo Takhmao International Airport, which is being built south of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. As well as…
News China Road and Bridge begins work on $1.6bn Cambodian link to Ho Chi Minh City Construction began this week on the Cambodian side of a tolled motorway that will eventually link Phnom Penh with Ho Chi Minh City, China’s People’s Daily reports. The Cambodian…
News Cambodia to build $1.7bn canal from Phnom Penh to the sea Cambodia has approved the construction of a canal from Phnom Penh to the Gulf of Thailand, reports newspaper The Star. The decision was made during a meeting of the Council…
News Cambodia starts $1bn job to quadruple its main port’s capacity Work started this week on a Japanese-financed container terminal at Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Autonomous Port in a bid to transform the country’s small main seaport into a Southeast Asian hub by…
News Cambodia plans motorway from Phnom Penh to Vietnam Cambodia’ transport minister Sun Chanthol said work on a $1.6bn motorway running from the capital Phnom Penh southeast to the border with Vietnam will start in June next year, Xinhua…
News Angkor Wat’s new airport to be finished in May Contractors will finish Cambodia’s New Siem Reap–Angkor International Airport next month and it will be officially opened in October, the Khmer Times reports. Zou Yuhui, chairman of Yunnan Air Investment…
News Cambodia seeks investors for $4bn railway to Thailand Cambodia is seeking investors for a $4bn medium-speed railway that will run between Phnom Penh and the Thai border, Global Times reports. A feasibility study into a 382km line is…
News China to invest in major Cambodian road and rail schemes Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said Beijing will invest in major projects in Cambodia including a $1.6bn expressway from Phnom Penh to the Vietnamese border and the upgrading of a railway…
News China-funded ‘friendship hospital’ set to boost healthcare in Cambodia A five-storey hospital in the eastern Cambodian town of Tboung Khmum was officially opened this week by Prime Minister Hun Sen and Wang Wentian, China’s ambassador to Phnom Penh.