April 2nd, 2012
STT’s latest Facts and Figures publication, entitled Railways Relocation in Phnom Penh: Six Women Tell Their Stories has now been published. The publication features several widows’ direct narratives about how relocation to the project’s Phnom Penh relocation site Trapeang Anchang, some 20-25km outside the city, has affected their lives. In the meantime, the ADB has claimed that compensation rates – defined in 2006 – reflect current market rates and that “[a]t every relocation site, households are also provided with individual lots equipped with sanitation facilities, as well as electricity and water supply connections.”
Railway Relocation In Phnom Penh
March 29th, 2012
Manolis House in collaboration with architect and researcher Shelby Doyle have a symposium entitled Water & the City on Saturday 31st March at 5pm at Reyum (#47, Street 178, north of National Museum,1st Flr). It aims to explore questions such as ‘what water management systems are operating in Phnom Penh and who is responsible for them?’
March 23rd, 2012
The project is the third phase of a 1999 plan laid out by city hall to make vast physical improvements to the capital. The Japanese Government will provide US$ 44.2 m for the project, which is being spearheaded by Sumitomo Mitsui construction and is slated for completion October 2015. http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2012032255192/National-news/project-to-curb-floods.html
