Thursday, 26 November 2009

The Phnom Penh Post News in Brief



(Posted by CAAI News Media)

Briefs: PM to attend SEA Games

Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:00 Ung Chamroeun

FOLLOWING a state visit by Laotian Prime Minister Bouasone Bouphavanh to Cambodia on Wednesday, Cambodian Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong told journalists that Prime Minister Hun Sen is to attend the opening ceremony of the Southeast Asian Games in

Briefs: U23s complete training

Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:00 Andy Brouwer

CAMBODIA’S footballers concluded their final warm-up preparations for the Southeast Asian Games in Laos next month with a 1-0 defeat to V-League team Can Tho Wednesday afternoon. It was the last work-out for the Cambodian U23s before a 20-man squad of players for the SEA Games is announced Friday. The squad returned from their Vietnam-based Thanh Long training facility today and will train again Friday morning before boarding the bus for the two-day trip to Vientiane Saturday morning. Their first game is against eight-time gold medallists Thailand on December 4.

Brief: Cement factory to be built in Kandal province

Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:00 Soeun Say

CONSTRUCTION will begin early next month on a US$17 million cement factory in Kandal province following the signing Monday of a joint-venture agreement between three companies, the factory’s landholder said Tuesday. 7NG General Manager Chheang Bora said Flanders Concrete NV Co of the Netherlands, Thu Duc Long An Centrifugal Concrete Joint Stock Co of Vietnam and Cambodia’s Sokchoeun Development Co took out a 99-year lease on the company’s Borey Santepheap II land development in Ksach Kandal district. Construction will be completed in six months, he said.

Brief: Mekong tourism fair attracts minister

Thursday, 26 November 2009 15:00 May Kunmakara

CAMBODIAN Tourism Minister Thong Khon will lead a travel sector delegation to a festival in Vietnam next month designed to promote the Mekong region as a tourist destination. The five-day Mekong-Japan Tourism and Cultural Festival, which opens on Tuesday in the southern city of Can Tho, is expected to be attended by more than 1,000 local and international travel organisation representatives as well as the culture and tourism ministries of the Mekong sub-region countries and Japan.

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