October 1, 2022 Khmer Times Cambodia’s first expressway – which reduces travel time from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville from five hours to just two hours – opens for a free month’s trial today. The Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway is 187.05 km long, connecting Village 1, Sangkat Samrong Krom, Khan Por Senchey, Phnom Penh to Village 1,…
Cambodia is planning to receive one million international tourists via the sea route by 2027 and will strengthen the Southern Tourism Corridor (STC) Cooperation as well, said Thong Rathasak, Director General of Tourism Development and International Cooperation of the Ministry of Tourism, recently. The STC is participated by Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar and Cambodia. Talking to…
Vietnam has asked the government of Cambodia to expand a shipping navigation route between its Phu Quoc island, Sihanoukville and Thailand as part of a coastal shipping lane cooperation deal previously agreed by the two countries and Cambodia. The request was made at a meeting between Phan Chi Thanh, the Vietnamese ambassador to Thailand, and…
Wang Wentian, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the People’s Republic of China to Cambodia, said that if the process goes smoothly as planned, the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway project could be completed in June 2022. He made the remarks at a handover ceremony of 231 cases of Covid-19 traditional Chinese medicine weighing 1,125 kilograms to Deputy…
Aeon, a Japanese retailer, plans to build a 30,000-square-meter logistics center in Sihanoukville, Cambodia in 2023 to provide import storage, customs clearance, and cross-border online retail support. Cambodia plans to develop a part of the special economic zone as a free trade port with the support of the Government of Japan and the Japan International…
Jin Yu Tang (Cambodia) Fishery Co Ltd plans to splash out an unspecified amount on “marine fish aquaculture in submerged cages”, on Cambodia’s Sihanoukville province islands of Koh Dek Koul and Koh Thas, according to Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Veng Sakhon on January 11. The minister wrote in a Facebook post that he…
AEON Mall (Cambodia) Co Ltd’s first “multifunctional logistics business hub” is set to break ground early next month and start operations next year, in a special economic zone (SEZ) near Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS), according to a port source with knowledge of the matter. The shopping mall developer and operator has leased a plot of…
Long Dimanche, Deputy Governor of Preah Sihanouk Province, and Tu Xiaogang Du Xiaogang, Party Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party Committee in Wuxi, on December 17, chaired an online meeting on promoting regional development. Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone 2.0 (SSEZ), which is up 40% in value. Xiaogang, said that the video meeting was to determine…
The Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen has confirmed that Cambodia will examine the possibility of developing existing railways into high-speed railways and expanding railway connections to other potential provinces to reduce traffic accidents and increase transportation capacity. The new railway, which is planned to be built is to connect the existing railway in Poipet…
A new floating eco-tourism port is in the pipeline for northern Sihanoukville province’s Trapaing Kea village, on the Prek Kampong Smach canal upstream from Veal Rinh Bay, according to provincial authorities. In expectation of a marked upswing in national and international tourists in the near future as Covid lets up, provincial officials have welcomed the…
PHNOM PENH, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) — Nearly 71 percent of the construction work on the Chinese-invested Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway has been completed despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport (MPWT) said in a news release on Sunday. MPWT’s secretary of state Yit Bunna visited the construction site in southwestern Kampong…
From 2022, Cambodia will rollout the expansion of the sea port at Sihanoukville province to reduce sea transport cost and attract more foreign direct investments. The plan was shared recently with the media by Lou Kimchhun, Director General of Sihanoukville Autonomous Port, adding that the sea port expansion will entail three main stages. According to…
PM Hun Sen said more than $320 million was spent on the construction of infrastructure in Sihanoukville province to improve Cambodia’s image and be the driver of economic growth for the nation. He made the remarks in a speech given at the inaugural ceremony for 37 newly completed roads and three wastewater treatment stations in…
Continent Assets Management Co., Ltd, PLMP Venture Capital Co., Ltd, PropNex Cambodia Co., Ltd and Ly Ly Kampong Seila Special Economic Zone Co., Ltd signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on November 17th 2021, to join strategic cooperation in designing new investment companies for fintech hub projects in Sihanoukville City under the honorable presences of Governor Kuoch…
Hong Lai Huat wholly-owned subsidiary HLH Development (HLHD) has agreed to co-develop an 11.5-hectare (ha) site in Sihanoukville, Cambodia with the site’s land owner Smart Winner, announced the group in a bourse filing on Monday (Nov 1). This marks the group’s fourth mixed-use development project in Cambodia as well as its second foray into Sihanoukville…
The Cambodia government is working to transform Sihanoukville province, also known as Preah Sihanouk province, into a multi-purpose special economic zone (SEZ) after the province received the designation earlier this year. On June 9, 2021, Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen signed a sub-decree that will make Sihanoukville province a multi-purpose SEZ. The designation stands to…
In a bid to quickly reopen the country to international tourists, Cambodia will implement a sandbox scheme to allow quarantine-free visits for those who are fully-vaccinated to Sihanoukville, Koh Rong island and the Dara Sakor Resort in Koh Kong province from November 30. The Quarantine Free Safe Tourism package will apply to tourists who book…
The Ministry of Economy and Finance has awarded a master plan consultancy contract to a top Chinese institute for the development and transformation of Preah Sihanouk province into a “Model Multi-Purpose Special Economic Zone”, Southeast Asia’s next logistics and resort hub and innovation centre. The master plan will serve as a key roadmap to develop…
The real estate market of Sihanoukville province is beginning to show more positive signs after a subdued period, following a double whammy shock of an exodus of Chinese nationals in the wake of an online gambling ban, and then the Covid-19 crisis, observers have said. In a bid to develop the Kingdom’s largest coastal province…
The value of imports and exports passing through the Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SEZ) reached $1.373 billion in the first eight months of 2021, an increase of 44.37 per cent year-on-year, the operator reported. Using an earlier report as reference, this means the imports and exports that passed through the industrial zone last month alone…
According to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport of Cambodia, the construction of the Phnom Penh (PP)-Sihanoukville Expressway is progressing smoothly and to date, the project has achieved 63% in terms of overall completion. After the completion of the above expressway project, the journey from PP to Sihanoukville is estimated to take only 2…
While Southeast Asia becomes embattled by the Delta variant of Covid-19 this summer, Cambodia’s people have cause to stay optimistic in a bright future. Cambodia has spent more than $1 billion to combat COVID-19, and herd immunity could be achieved by October, 2021. The tourism centers of Sihanoukville and Siem Reap are likely to evolve…
The Cambodian government’s relentless push to improve the Kingdom’s logistics infrastructure got another boost this week with officials committing to build 11 new roads for Sihanoukville. Already, the province is set to benefit from the 190 kilometre-long, $2 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway due to be completed next year. Earlier in 2021, the government completed a…
The government has decided to relocate the venue for the ASEAN Tourism Forum 2022 (ATF 2022), which was originally scheduled to take place in Phnom Penh on January 16-22, to Sihanoukville, according to a letter from the Council of Ministers. The letter, signed by the Council’s permanent secretary of state Hing Thoraksy on July 8,…
Sihanoukville was once a city that drove both local and international headlines. Considered the next hot property investment destination, Sihanoukville continued development as a prime residential, commercial, retail, and up until 2019, gambling hub in Southeast Asia. The city was the microcosm of Cambodia’s rapid development in the past decade. Sihanoukville, a once-sleepy beach town…
Ream City development, is a new ‘city within a city that is rising from an 834-hectare plot of reclaimed land in Sihanoukville, Cambodia located along the coast of the Gulf of Thailand. The $16 billion project led by the Cambodian property development company Canopy Sands, is one of the largest real estate investments in the…
Cambodian Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said the construction of the Chinese-invested Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway has gone full steam ahead despite the Covid-19 pandemic. It is expected to be completed ahead of schedule. Invested in by China Road and Bridge Corp (CRBC), the $2 billion expressway will connect the capital city of…
Senior Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport Chanthol inspected the progress of the construction of National Road 146B and National Road 148, both of which are scheduled to be completed by August, 2022. The Senior Minister also inspected the automatic concrete mixer, which can be produce enough materials to build 500 meters per…
The construction of the nearly $2 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway is 51% complete and is expected to be finished in 2023, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Vasim Sorya. Invested in by Cambodian PPSHV Expressway Co Ltd, the first expressway in Cambodia will boast a total length of 190.3km and…
Sihanoukville provincial authority and private sector has welcomed a $50 million investment in a new five-star hotel, which observers note will better equip the province to serve tourist arrivals in the years to come. The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) on May 5 gave JinBei Palace Co Ltd the nod for its 195-room…
The nighttime lockdown curfew in Cambodia’s capital city, Phnom Penh (pictured), host of the NagaWorld casino resort, has been again extended by the local authorities for another week, to May 5. Such curfew was first introduced on April 1 as a countermeasure against the further spread of Covid-19, and was due to last until April…
Malaysian-based WA Hospitality will be making its foray into Sihanoukville with the opening of the 300-key Won Majestic Casino Hotel & Resort Cambodia come 1Q2022. Located steps from the picturesque Sokha beach, the property will feature luxury suites and studio rooms, a swimming pool, gym, three restaurants, guest lounge and a casino. WA Hospitality had…
Chinese officials have pledged to bolster Cambodia’s railway infrastructure, according to local media reports. National news agency Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP) reported yesterday that an agreement was made following Preah Sihanouk Provincial Governor Kuoch Chamroeun’s request for Chinese aid in developing the province’s railroad infrastructure. Cambodia’s existing 264 kilometre-long Southern Line connects the coastal city…
PARSIPPANY, N.J., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world’s largest hotel franchising company and leading provider of hotel management services with over 8,900 hotels across nearly 95 countries on six continents, has opened its first hotel in Cambodia, the Howard Johnson Plaza by Wyndham Blue Bay Sihanoukville, a brand new landmark on…
Canopy Sands Development, a member of Prince Holding Group has approved a masterplan for Ream City developed by Surbana Jurong Group, a global urban, infrastructure and managed services consultancy headquartered in Singapore. The masterplan specifies a land use plan for the 834-hectare project requiring total investments estimated at $16 billion, and will be developed on…
Canopy Sands Development Co Ltd, a member of Prince Holding Group, one of Cambodia’s largest and fastest growing conglomerates, approved a master plan to develop Preah Sihanouk province’s Ream bay into the $16 billion Ream City. The masterplan specifies a land use plan for the 834ha project, which will be developed on reclaimed land and…
The Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ) has reported export growth of 26.52 percent in 2020, a significant achievement in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The value of goods exported from the SSEZ was $1.556 billion, according to the report obtained by Khmer Times on Friday. The zone’s main products are clothes, electronic devices, bags, construction…
A 34-road infrastructure project in Preah Sihanouk province has completed initial construction of concrete roadways and drainage systems and is on schedule to be entirely finished in the first half of next year. Provincial hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told The Post on December 28 that 98 per cent of light poles had been installed as…
The Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ), will be a key driver in bilateral trade between Cambodia and China, reaching $10 billion in 2023, and could prove to be a bellwether in boosting trade activities with other countries in the region and globally, according to Deputy Prime Minister Hor Namhong. Namhong said that the SSEZ enjoys…
The construction of the more than $1.9 billion Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway has not been delayed despite the Covid-19 pandemic, with more than 26 per cent of the project completed and expected to finish in about two years, according to Ministry of Public Works and Transport secretary of state Vasim Sorya. The first expressway in Cambodia…
The once dormant Cambodian gaming capital of Sihanoukville is returning with a modernized model for the times that appears prepared to create added steady revenue flow for Cambodia. Recent History Originally arising from a construction boom backed primarily by Chinese investors, Sihanoukville developed into a resort of palm-fringed beaches with no regard for urban planning,…
The coastal city of Sihanoukville has recently undergone a $294 million restoration and expansion project of 34 roads, making it more accessible, clean and ready for the return of tourism. In November last year, the government, with the attendance of Prime Minister Hun Sen, began the work, spanning 82 kilometres. A key issue in Sihanoukville…
State Councillor and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China, Wang Yi, arrived in Cambodia on Sunday for an official visit which will include a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen and other senior officials. Three documents will be signed, including the Cambodia-China Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA), the Exchange of Note for…
Sihanoukville – A new luxury retail space opened its doors to consumers on 1 October 2020 after a three-year construction period. It is a shopping mall with five floors and an area of 50,000 square metres, which offers a stylish shopping experience to the customers in Sihanoukville. Prince Mall is now Sihanoukville’s premier shopping destination,…
The Kingdom’s first expressway project, built by state-owned China Road and Bridge Corp (CRBC) through its subsidiary Cambodia PPSHV Expressway Co Ltd, linking Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, at a cost of roughly $1.9billion, is now about 30 percent of its 190 kilometres complete. Cambodia is also considering the construction of a Phnom Penh logistics centre…
Having harnessed the attention of residential investors for at least the last three years, Cambodia’s construction boom continues without any signs of dwindling. Until a slowdown evident over the last 12 months, developers had been particularly active in Cambodia’s condominium sector and CBRE sees signs of a resurgence in this side of the market. “The…
Hong Kong-listed NagaCorp Ltd, the parent company of local casino operator NagaWorld Ltd, has expressed an interest in developing integrated resorts (IRs) in areas of Siem Reap and Preah Sihanouk provinces. Siem Reap town is home to UNESCO World Heritage site Angkor Wat in Nokor Thom commune, just 6km north of the provincial capital’s downtown…
Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (PAS) plans to expand deep port terminal into phase II and phase III aiming to handle the container traffic at the port, as the traffic of containers are predicted to increase in the years to come. As planned, the port terminal will be expanded to 410 metre long and 16 metre deep,…
A 700 MW coal-fired power plant in Sihanoukville province is set to begin construction soon, as authorities announce they have completed an environmental and social impact review. The $1.3 billion project is developed by Cambodia International Investment Development Group Co Ltd (CIIDG), in coordination with partner Huadian Sihanoukville Power Generation Co Ltd. “The project will…
US-based hardwood flooring manufacturer AHF Products has announced that it will fulfil its orders solely out of its Sihanoukville facility, and will cease operations in Shanghai, China, reported Hardwood Floors Magazine. Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told The Post that AHF Products, registered in Cambodia as Fine Flooring (Cambodia) Co Ltd, built its…
The Kingdom’s coastal Sihanoukville, where Chinese nationals national dominated nearly a half of businesses before the COVID-19 outbreak, is seeing economic activity gradually rebound after Middle Kingdom’s investors and workers started to return to the province as pandemic fears ease. Preah Sihanouk provincial hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told Khmer Times that Since May 23 up…
The coastal province of Preah Sihanouk – considered to be one of the Kingdom’s economic hubs and a southwest rising star of the country – will soon be home to six more special economic zones (SEZ). The additions will bring the total number of industrial parks in the province to 10, the provincial administration reported….
Cambodian and Chinese investors have jointly invested about $8 million to build a fruit processing plant in Preah Sihanouk province. Preah Sihanouk Provincial Hall spokesman Kheang Phearum told The Post on Wednesday that Shang Da Jian Hui International Agriculture Product and Logistic Co Ltd is in the process of constructing a fruit processing plant for…
The Preah Sihanouk Provincial Administration has signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with 16 Chinese cities and provinces to promote investments in tourism, culture, education and sports between the province and China. Government spokesman Phay Siphan said Preah Sihanouk is a multi-purpose coastal province that the government believes has the potential to become a multi-purpose economic…
The government has high hopes that Sihanoukville will be the country’s first smart city and a magnet for foreign investment once coastal infrastructure development is completed. Prime Minister Hun Sen said during a meeting on Monday that with the construction of new roads and infrastructure equipped with smart lighting and security camera installations, which has…
Prime Minister Hun Sen said the 34 roads and other infrastructure projects underway in Preah Sihanouk are preparing the province to be a model of sustainable development for Cambodia’s coastal areas and a special economic area that will attract tourists and foreign investors. He said this at a meeting with officials in charge of Preah…
Hong Kong’s Century Entertainment International Holdings Limited, formerly known as Amax International Holdings, has terminated a lease deal with Cambodia’s Crown Resorts Co Ltd to operate a VIP room at Genting Crown Casino in Poipet, Cambodia. The lease deal, which was due to expire in November, saw Century Entertainment run 13 VIP tables at Genting…
The government has approved the construction of a $100 million five-star hotel in Preah Sihanouk province that officials say will be ready to welcome tourists once Covid-19 disappears. The Council for the Development of Cambodia (CDC) issued a final certificate of registration to Yong Wang (Cambodia) Co Ltd to build the 700-room establishment with a…
The Preah Sihanouk provincial administration, led by the National Committee of Cambodia Coastal Management and Development, is bulldozing a coastal area in Bit Traing commune, Prey Nop district, to create a new public recreational beach named Chum Teav Mao Beach for national and international tourists to visit. Provincial tourism department director Taing Sochet Kresna told…
The outbreak of COVID-19 has frozen many sectors in Cambodia: hotels shuttered, workers in garment factories laid off, trade disrupted, and tourism stopped. Despite all the obstacles brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, the construction of the first expressway in Cambodia continues to make headway day by day under a joint effort made by Chinese and…
A ring road for transport linking Sihanoukville deep seaport to a road section of National Road 4 in Preah Sihanouk province’s Prey Nup district through Stung Hav district has broken ground late last week. According to the ministry, built by China Road & Bridge Corporation Co., Ltd., the road construction would cost nearly US$77 million…
Sihanouk International Airport will soon increase its capacity to allow for long-haul flights – flights longer than seven hours – and the upgrade is expected to enhance relations in the trade, investment and tourism sectors between Cambodia and the rest of the world. At a press conference on the “Progress and Implementation plan of the…
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambodia (Reuters) – When casino owner Kang Qiang looks out the window of his 20th floor office in this city on the remote Cambodian coast, he sees construction cranes sitting idle. The Chinese-funded gambling enclave of Sihanoukville has suffered a double blow. Travel restrictions imposed in recent weeks to slow the global coronavirus pandemic…
Cambodia is planning to build a new container seaport in Preah Sihanouk province with financial assistance from Japan, Minister of Public Works and Transport Sun Chanthol said last week. A 14.5m-deep port, funded by the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), will soon be built in the southern province, he told a press conference. The container…
The National Committee for Coastal Management and Development will coordinate with relevant ministries over the establishment of a billion-dollar tourist area named Neak Reach in Preah Sihanouk province after it was proposed by the Ministry of Tourism. The press release said the Ream City project was estimated to cost up to $16 billion in investment…
The government aims to transform Sihanoukville into Cambodia’s industrial hub – a “second Shenzhen city”, Ministry of Economy and Finance secretary of state Vongsey Vissoth said. Located along the coast, Preah Sihanouk province boasts an international airport, a railway line connected to Phnom Penh and the Kingdom’s only deep-sea port. Its construction sector has attracted…
Sihanoukville, once a sleepy beach town that has experienced tremendous growth in recent years fueled mostly by Chinese investment, will soon boast two new shopping malls. Furi Times Square, a $10 million joint venture between Furi Real Estate and investors from Macau and Hong Kong, will open its doors to the public next month. Speaking…
