AKP Phnom Penh, April 03, 2025 --

The government, using the border infrastructure crowdfunding, has achieved almost 40 percent of the planned construction of ring roads along the border between Cambodia and Vietnam.

The progress update was shared in a news release issued on April 1 by the Border Infrastructure Fund Management Taskforce focusing on border ring road construction.

According to the release, since the commencement of the work in Dec. 2024, eight units of civil engineering forces have been deployed along with 286 vehicles, machinery, and engines for the road construction in the border provinces of Mondulkiri and Rattanakiri.

The engineering forces have cleared the land and paved about 110-kilometre paths for initial 5-metre-wide roads and around 103-kilometre paths for 20-metre-wide roads.

About 44 percent or 2,752,500 square metres of the total 6,250,000 square metres of the road construction areas have been cleared from landmines and explosive remnants, and the demining mission is expected to be completed during the second half of 2025.

The forces have installed more than 120 sets of necessary sewage and drainage systems and facilities and constructed about 100 kilometres of ditches along the roads, it added.

Guided by Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Moha Borvor Thipadei Hun Manet, a public mobilisation campaign for a border infrastructure fund was launched in August, raising about US$27 million.

The government is using the fund to construct a 250-kilometre border ring road in Mondulkiri and Rattanakiri provinces and continues to provide updates of milestones and achievements to ensure a transparent and accountable process of the work.

By Thyda You