The Mirror, Vol. 11, No. 521
“Phnom Penh: A foreign newspaper said recently that the Bangkok Mass Transit System [BTS] from Thailand plans to build two electric sky train lines in Phnom Penh soon in order to add a transportation system, also guaranteeing safety and reducing the number of traffic accidents in Phnom Penh.
“Officials of the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport said regarding the construction of electric sky train lines in Phnom Penh, that the Thai company will build two lines costing more than US$500 million. One line is to go from the Cambodian-Japanese Friendship [Chroy Chongva] Bridge to the Preah Monivong Bridge, and another line is to go from Phsar Thom Thmei to the Stung Meanchey Bridge.
“The construction of the electric sky train lines in Phnom Penh will start from 2008 and finish in 2011, and then the train operation will start. In late 2006, experts from Phnom Penh, and experts from China conducted a study along the Russian Federation Boulevard at the Ambassador Junction [leading from this boulevard towards Tuol Kork] and the junction near Tuek Thla, in order to plan the construction of bridges across those junctions to facilitate the traffic and to reduce traffic jams there.
“Officials of the Cambodian Ministry of Public Works and Transport said that in Cambodia, the Royal Government has a project to reconstruct, repair, and develop the two railway lines in the country, that is one line from Phnom Penh to Sihanoukville, and another line is from Phnom Penh to Poipet at the Cambodian-Thai border area, to be linked to the railway in Thailand. The railway line from Sisophon to Poipet is to be repaired with a donation from Malaysia.
“The officials added that the reconstruction and development of the railway lines in Cambodia are, at this time, part of the development project of ASEAN railway lines, linking Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, and other countries in the region toward Kunming in China. As for the ASEAN railways which will link Cambodia to Vietnam, they will link the Cambodian railway on the north of Phnom Penh across Kompong Cham to the Cambodian-Vietnamese border, and this section has been studied by Chinese experts.
“In Phnom Penh, traffic jams can be reduced somehow at the main entrances to the city, after the construction of the electric sky train lines by the Thai company is completed and the train operation starts.” Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1421, 18.8.2007
Newspapers Appearing on the Newsstand:
Saturday, 18 August 2007
Kampuchea Thmey, Vol.6, #1421, 18.8.2007
- Thais Plan to Invest More Than $500 Million in Construction of Electric Sky Train Lines in Phnom Penh
- Municipality Tells People, Who Have Money to Buy Houses, to Be Careful [because some companies construct buildings illegally]
- Officials Check Four Illegal Sites That Secretly Refine Used Oil to Make It into Diesel Fuel [Russey Keo, Phnom Penh]
- Man Handcuffed for Raping Nine-Year-Old Girl [Kien Svay, Kandal]
- Indonesian People in Cambodia Mark Their 62nd Anniversary of Independence Day [independence from the Netherlands]
- Mr. Thaksin [Shinawatra, former Thai Prime Minister] Is Still a Hero for Poor Farmers in Rural Areas
- Deaths in Peru’s Quake Increase to 510
- Hot Wave Kills 37 People in America
Khmer Amatak, Vol.8, #507, 17.8.2007
- Court System Reform Is Just to Lure Votes in 2008
- People Know that Sam Rainsy Does Politics to Share Power with the Cambodian People’s Party and to Attempt to Kill the Monarchy
- Samdech Krom Preah Expects Norodom Ranariddh Party Will Win and Get Many Parliamentarians in Term 4
Koh Santepheap, Vol.40, #6121, 18-19.8.2007
- CISCO Systems Cooperates with [Cambodian] Ministry of Education for Information Technology Training
- Request of Cambodian National Research Organization [for monks not to vote] Rejected
Moneaksekar Khmer, Vol.14, #3240, 18-19.8.2007
- [US Ambassador] Joseph A. Mussomeli Says So Many Khmer Citizens Do Not Believe that National Election Committee Is Independent and Just
- Drug Producing Chief Chea Chung in Traeng Trayueng Arrested in Vietnam and Sent to Cambodia
Rasmei Kampuchea, Vol.15, #4366, 18.8.2007
- [Kanika (phonetic) Boonyaratglin] Sister of Thai Military Coup Leader [General Sonthi Boonyaratglin] Arrested by Banteay Meanchey Customs Officers [because she drove a right-hand-drive car into Cambodia illegally – according to Thai Rak Thai]
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