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OCIC builds shops on diamond island
Thursday, 01 July 2010 15:00 Soeun Say
OVERSEAS Cambodia Investment Cooperation (OCIC) is set to complete building more than 100 shops in the Diamond Island project in the next month, according to Prak Chan Long, general manager of Diamond Island Convention Exhibition Centre. He said he did not know how much it cost to build. “We’ve built the shops for rent, not for sale, and will charge about US$500 per month. We’ve rented out most of the shops already,” he said. The Diamond Island Convention Exhibition Centre is part of a larger $200 million development being built by OCIC, which has the same owners as Canadia Bank. It is slated for completion in 2016, and is expected to occupy 75 hectares, according to government approval in 2006. The island, called Koh Pich in Khmer, is in Phnom Penh.
PP water awards $35 million tender
Thursday, 01 July 2010 15:00 Jeremy Mullins
PHNOM Penh Water Supply Authority has signed its second contract this month with Singapore-based Moya Dayen as part of the Niroth Water Production Facilities Project first phase of construction. The latest deal worth US$34.6 million follows a $13.38 million agreement struck mid-June on the same project, according to a press release Tuesday. Construction covered by the latest deal is expected to begin in August, and last about 30 months. “The completion of Phase 1 of Niroth Water Production Facilities will greatly alleviate the water supply situation in a fast-growing city,” Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority general director Ek Sonn Chan said in the release.
Skin Scare: Unlicenced beautician questioned
Thursday, 01 July 2010 15:01 Mom Kunthear
Skin Scare
A 26-year-old Vietnamese unlicenced beautician was questioned at Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Wednesday morning after one of his clients accused him of botching a skin-whitening procedure, a police official said. Sin Bunri, the police chief of Sen Sok district’s Toek Thla commune, said his officers arrested the man on Monday after the woman filed a complaint with them. The complaint said the man had given her injections of “skin-whitening cream”, and that her face had then become swollen and painful. The victim said she had consented to the procedure in the hope of whitening her complexion and concealing a bruise, he added. “When we arrested the man, we found two injection needles, cream and some products on him,” Sun Bunri said. “We asked him what kind of products he used, but he would not tell us because he was afraid that we would copy him and go into business.” In early March, a 23-year-old woman in Banteay Meanchey province died after overusing a skin-whitening cream made in Vietnam. Shorly thereafter, Prime Minister Hun Sen urged women to avoid such products and to preserve their “natural beauty”.
Acid Rumour: Police free accused mother
Thursday, 01 July 2010 15:01 Mom Kunthear
Acid Rumour
Military police in Banteay Meanchey province’s Poipet town on Wednesday released a woman who an official said had been wrongly accused of pouring acid on her 2-year-old son. The 36-year-old woman was allowed to return home after being arrested on Tuesday at a market close to the Thai border and detained overnight for questioning by police, said Ork Borin, deputy provincial military police commander. “There was a rumour that the mother had doused acid on her child, but in fact her son had the burn mark from an unrelated injury suffered a year ago,” he said.
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