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New Phnom Penh Airport
Facts and figures on the new airport of Phnom Penh, which will be one of the biggest airports (by land size) in Southeast Asia.
Greetings from Quy Nhon, Vietnam. I’ve been on the road this week visiting beach resorts of the South Central Coast, beginning my trip in Tuy Hoa.
I’ve already compiled a Future Quy Nhon report, and after revisiting I will have to update it. I will also have a report on Tuy Hoa, which is emerging as a domestic hotspot.
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New Phnom Penh Airport
The New Phnom Penh Airport is - as the name suggests - a new airport in Phnom Penh. There is no official name yet, but my money is on Hen Sen International Airport 🙄.
I wasn’t planning to do a guide for this airport, but while researching other airports I saw a news report saying that this will be one of the biggest airports in the world! Long Thanh in Ho Chi Minh City and the New Manila Airport are also planning big, so having another mega airport in the region would make for a fiercely competitive battle to be the dominant airport hub of Southeast Asia. The new airport is big in land size, but it is not vying to be a mega airport.
I like the current airport as it’s only 10km from the city centre. It only has one runway though, so it will not be able to cater for a growing city in the future.
Even though new airport is now under construction, not all of the details are known yet. It was announced that British architectural design and engineering firm Foster & Partners are designing the airport, though there is no mention of this on their website.
Another question that needs to be answered is transport to the airport. The new airport is 30 to 40 km from the city centre. By comparison, KUL airport is 45 km from KL Sentral. From KUL it takes an hour by bus on a route that is mostly motorway without traffic lights. How long would it take to get from the new airport to Phnom Penh? And is there a plan for an airport railway? It will be a hard sell to use the new airport if you are going to be stuck in traffic that far out of the city.
Read about the airport at: https://livinginasia.co/new-phnom-penh-airport/
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On the subject of airports in Cambodia, I found this article about the abandoned Kampong Chhnang Airport.
China
“Technology giant Tencent has unveiled plans for an almost entirely car-free "city of the future," equivalent in size to Monaco, in the Chinese metropolis of Shenzhen.”
“Farmers in China have faced forced evictions and illicit land grabs for decades - sources of social unrest that the government is finally trying to address in a major shake-up of its property law.”
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Laos
“Laos is not likely to make all its debt payments this year, much of them owed to China, which has become the world’s biggest lender, more so than the World Bank or any other global institution, according to analysts.”
Malaysia
“Penang has reduced its minimum price threshold for foreign property ownership by up to 40 per cent to clear RM2.6 billion (S$848 million) worth of overhang units in the state.”
Philippines
“The P4.8-billion Bicol International Airport will be ready “within the year,” the Department of Transportation (DoTr) said Wednesday, hedging on the long-delayed project’s original launch date of July.”
South Korea
“Conventional bus stops on Seoul's main streets will have futuristic features, such as free Wi-Fi, mobile phone chargers and air purifiers, starting later this year.”
Thailand
“Every few years, Pattaya officials contemplate tearing down Walking Street’s seedy bars and replacing them with a natural, family-friendly attraction. While a high-season river of cash used to wash away such thoughts, the nightlife strip’s current shutdown has administrators rethinking their options again.”
“Students from Chulalongkorn University and residents of the Saphan Lueang neighbourhood have expressed their objections against the demolition of the Chao Mae Thap Thim Shrine for a real-estate development.”
“The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has begun removing trees along Na Phra Lan Road to pave way for construction of an underground network of walkways in a new landscape improvement project.”
“Phrae: The provincial governor has ordered a probe into the demolition of a 127-year-old two-storey building that was once used by the British.”
“A 4·3 km four-station extension of Bangkok BTS SkyTrain’s Sukhumvit (Green) Line north from Kasetsart University to Royal Forest Department and Wat Phra Sri Mahathat opened on June 5.”
Vietnam
“The Department of Natural Resources and Environment said the five companies had already sent their files to an auction of land-use of four plots covering 2.7ha on Vo Van Kiet and Vo Nguyen Giap streets on the Son Tra Peninsula.”
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