CCHR highlights the lack of due process regarding the imminent forced evictions of 262 families living next to Phnom Penh Internatio​nal Airport

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Eviction deadline arrives as anxious villagers hold out

Villagers who have been ordered to relocate from a community near Phnom Penh International Airport go to meet with Por Sen Chey district officials last week. Photograph: Hong Menea/Phnom Penh Post

Thursday, 02 August 2012
Sen David and Claire Knox
TittharaThe Phnom Penh Post

More than 100 families from three villages in Por Sen Chey district’s Choam Chao commune were due to be ejected from their homes, marking the end of a harrowing seven day notification period after learning last week they would be forced out without compensation.

Flanking Phnom Penh International Airport’s southern-most fence, the village structures were “anarchic”, according to an eviction letter signed by District Governor Kit Sopha last Wednesday, which said the homes would be destroyed after seven days if the residents failed to leave.

But the villagers refused to budge, and have instead sought intervention from the Phnom Penh municipality to appeal for compensation for land they say is rightfully theirs.

Bank robbery at Phnom Penh International Airport

Friday, September 25, 2009
Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

A bank robbery at the Phnom Penh International Airport took place at 9:30PM on 22 September 2009. The victim of the robbery was Sothavy, a 20-year-old female employee of the Cambodia Asia Bank, located inside the Phnom Penh International Airport. Local news report indicated that the robber took off with $38,471. 35-year-old Chao Ratana was the identified robber, he is a male employee of the bank also. News report indicated that, prior to the robbery, the victim was sitting and working at her currency exchange station when the robber pointed a knife to threaten her. The robber then tied her hands and legs with electrical cord, and he also taped her mouth with scotch tape so that she would not yell. The robber told her frankly that: “I beg your pardon, my niece, don’t yell, I will not do anything to you, I only take the money because I am in dire situation.” After tying up the female employee, the robber proceeded to hastily search for money in the bank office and he walked out of the bank to safely flee in his car. The robbery took place without the cops being alerted because it was conducted very quietly.

Cambodia to have first airplane taxiway next month

May 29, 2009
Xinhua

PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia will have its first taxiway next month in Phnom Penh International Airport, a path that connects the runway to where airplanes park to increase the flight capacity of the airport, local media reported on Friday.

The US$9 million taxiway, which is 1,250 meters long by 44 meters wide, roughly the same size as the existing runway, will allow for more takeoffs and landings each day, Khek Norinda, communications and marketing manager for Societe Concessionaire des Aeroports (SCA), was quoted by English newspaper the Cambodia Daily as saying.

SCA, which is financing construction, is a French-owned company and manages Phnon Penh International Airport, as well as the airport in Siem Reap and Sihanoukville, under a contract with the government that runs until 2040.

The construction began in May of last year and will be finished in June of this year.

Currently, only 10 passenger planes can land or take off in an hour from the airfield at Phnom Penh's airport, said Sok Puth Thoeun, director of the airport's engineering department. That will jump to at least 16 planes with the planned taxiway.

"It is the first parallel taxiway for Phnom Penh International Airport," he added. The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation also has a master plan to build a parallel taxiway at Siem Reap International Airport, said Sok Puth Thoeun.

Pochentong Airport: Full Scale Airport Emergency Exercise

Fire fighters put out the fire at a mock air crash at Phnom Penh International Airport during the Full Scale Airport Emergency Exercise 2007 September 12, 2007. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

People pretending to be victims in a mock air crash lie on the ground at Phnom Penh International Airport during the Full Scale Airport Emergency Exercise 2007 September 12, 2007. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

Rescue workers remove "wounded" from a mock air crash at Phnom Penh International Airport during the Full Scale Airport Emergency Exercise 2007 September 12, 2007. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

A soldier patrols while rescue workers remove "wounded" from a mock air crash at Phnom Penh International Airport during the Full Scale Airport Emergency Exercise 2007 September 12, 2007. REUTERS/Chor Sokunthea

12-09-2007
By Kong Sothanarith
Cambodge Soir
Translated from French by Luc Sâr

The management of the Pochentong Airport wants to measure the efficiency of the emergency rescue, as well as the efficiency of the chain of information of the emergency operation center by setting up a full scale exercise.

The Phnom Penh International Airport organized on Wednesday 12 September, a simulation of an emergency operation during a plane crash. The exercise follows the crash of a PMT Airlines plane a few month ago, in the Kampot province, where 22 people died. “The goal of this exercise is to provide emergency during a plane accident, mainly a plane crash. We must test the command procedure for an emergency, evaluate the efficiency of the information recorded on the spot, and the follow up of this information by the Emergency operation Center. This is not about an operation related to terrorist action on an airplane,” Khek Norinda, the marketing and communication director of the Société Concessionaire des Aéroports (SCA), said. The exercise took place inside the military airport during a slow period of air traffic. Some 400 personnel involved would be participating in the exercise, they come from the national disaster management department, from Phnom Penh Hospitals, as well as from the police forces.