{"id":63976,"date":"2020-02-21T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T03:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/?p=63976"},"modified":"2020-02-27T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-27T03:43:02","slug":"phnom-penh-bavet-expressway-project-under-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/en\/archives\/63976","title":{"rendered":"Phnom Penh-Bavet Expressway Project Under Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phnom Penh, February 21, 2020 &#8211;A study on the construction of an expressway linking Phnom Penh capital to Bavet city, at the border with Vietnam, has been conducted.<a href=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/7-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63972\" src=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/7-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/7-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/7-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/7-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/7-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The project was announced by H.E. Sun Chanthol, Senior Minister and Minister of Public Works and Transport at a press conference held on Feb. 21 at the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A framework agreement has been signed between the ministry and a Chinese firm, H.E. Senior Minister said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the agreement, inked in December last year, the study will take eight months to complete and the report of the study will be submitted to the government which make a decision on the investment of the expressway project, he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe give the firm an eight-month period to carry out the study [\u2026], and the report will be submitted to the government to decide whether or not we can invest on the project,\u201d H.E. Sun Chanthol said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first study of Phnom Penh-Bavet expressway project had been conducted by JICA, but the government found that the project would cost a lot, based on the report, he continued.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The first ever expressway linking Phnom Penh to the coastal province of Preah Sihanouk, southwest of the country, is currently under construction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stretching over 190 kilometres, the expressway construction is scheduled to complete in 2023.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By Chea Vannak<a href=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/12-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63977\" src=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/12-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/12-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/12-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/12-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/12-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-63974\" src=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9-1-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/9-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study on the construction of an expressway linking Phnom Penh capital to Bavet city, at the border with Vietnam, has been conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":63972,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63976","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-news","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63978,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63976\/revisions\/63978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}