Friday, 24 August 2012
By Yeun Ponlok and Ung Chamroeun
Phnom Penh Post 
A graphic design of the government’s proposed 94-hectare Morodok Techo
National Sports Complex, slated to begin construction at the end of this
year. Photograph: Yeun Ponlok/Phnom Penh Post
The Cambodian
government are set to invest heavily in the future of national sport
after a decision to create an inter-ministerial committee to manage the
construction of an Olympic Park-style facility named the Morodok Techo
National Sports Complex was rubber stamped by Prime Minister Hun Sen
earlier this week.
Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema has been named as head of the committee and has already signed off for the establishment of four subcommittees including a technical committee, dispute resolving committee, construction management committee, and land and building surveying committee.
A 94-hectare plot earmarked for the development will require the filling in of part of Boeung Pong Peay lake, which is located between Phnom Penh Thmey village in Sen Sok district and Tuol Sangke commune in Russey Keo district near the Ly Yong Phat bridge to the east of the city.
Thong Khon, the Minister of Tourism and president of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, told the Post that the complex would be Cambodia’s first modern multipurpose and international standard sports facility.
Plans designed by local company Architect Solutions are being held by the NOCC, who will co-operate with the Phnom Penh Municipality, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the private sector in developing the complex.
Vath Chamroeun, NOCC secretary-general and vice president of the construction management and land and building surveying committees, said about 40 per cent of the site will be used for construction of stadiums, offices and other buildings, while the remainder will be covered by grass, trees and gardens.
“Stadium construction will start at the end of this year,” added Vath Chamroeun.
The government is said to be bearing the total cost of the project, which has yet to be officially announced, although the municipality has granted the land. Engineering experts have estimated an expenditure of between US$100 million and $150 million.
The current plans include six arenas and a huge weights training gym for up to 1,500 elite athletes. The 43,000-seat main stadium will cover a plot of nine hectares and house a football pitch and running track.
A multipurpose indoor stadium on 3.6 hectares will seat 15,000 spectators while a swimming centre on a similarly sized parcel of land will be able to host 6,000 aquatics fanatics.
There is also a proposed 3,700-seat badminton and table tennis hall, a 3,700-seat gymnastics and traditional sports hall and a 3,000-seate sports hall for basketball, volleyball and futsal.
Also in the mix are plans for four six-storey blocks of offices and four eight-storey blocks to accommodate athletes, which will include 400 rooms and two eating halls.
Finally, a 800-room hotel on 3.2 hectares is in the pipeline.
Sports fans across the Kingdom are eargerly awaiting the news that Cambodia will host a SEA Games tournament, with ASEAN members keen to see one of the founding nations finally do so.
With next year’s edition to be held in Myanmar, Singapore to be hosts in 2015, Kuala Lumpur slated for 2017 and Bandar Seri Bagawan in Brunei given the nod for 2019, Phnom Penh can take at least nine years to wrap up construction before welcoming the premier regional competition.
Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema has been named as head of the committee and has already signed off for the establishment of four subcommittees including a technical committee, dispute resolving committee, construction management committee, and land and building surveying committee.
A 94-hectare plot earmarked for the development will require the filling in of part of Boeung Pong Peay lake, which is located between Phnom Penh Thmey village in Sen Sok district and Tuol Sangke commune in Russey Keo district near the Ly Yong Phat bridge to the east of the city.
Thong Khon, the Minister of Tourism and president of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia, told the Post that the complex would be Cambodia’s first modern multipurpose and international standard sports facility.
Plans designed by local company Architect Solutions are being held by the NOCC, who will co-operate with the Phnom Penh Municipality, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the private sector in developing the complex.
Vath Chamroeun, NOCC secretary-general and vice president of the construction management and land and building surveying committees, said about 40 per cent of the site will be used for construction of stadiums, offices and other buildings, while the remainder will be covered by grass, trees and gardens.
“Stadium construction will start at the end of this year,” added Vath Chamroeun.
The government is said to be bearing the total cost of the project, which has yet to be officially announced, although the municipality has granted the land. Engineering experts have estimated an expenditure of between US$100 million and $150 million.
The current plans include six arenas and a huge weights training gym for up to 1,500 elite athletes. The 43,000-seat main stadium will cover a plot of nine hectares and house a football pitch and running track.
A multipurpose indoor stadium on 3.6 hectares will seat 15,000 spectators while a swimming centre on a similarly sized parcel of land will be able to host 6,000 aquatics fanatics.
There is also a proposed 3,700-seat badminton and table tennis hall, a 3,700-seat gymnastics and traditional sports hall and a 3,000-seate sports hall for basketball, volleyball and futsal.
Also in the mix are plans for four six-storey blocks of offices and four eight-storey blocks to accommodate athletes, which will include 400 rooms and two eating halls.
Finally, a 800-room hotel on 3.2 hectares is in the pipeline.
Sports fans across the Kingdom are eargerly awaiting the news that Cambodia will host a SEA Games tournament, with ASEAN members keen to see one of the founding nations finally do so.
With next year’s edition to be held in Myanmar, Singapore to be hosts in 2015, Kuala Lumpur slated for 2017 and Bandar Seri Bagawan in Brunei given the nod for 2019, Phnom Penh can take at least nine years to wrap up construction before welcoming the premier regional competition.
To contact the reporters on this story: Yeun Ponlok at ponlok.yeun@phnompenhpost.com
Ung Chamroeun at chamroeun.ung@phnompenhpost.com
Ung Chamroeun at chamroeun.ung@phnompenhpost.com
16 comments:
I like to have the toilet that name after Hun sen for my out door public toilet in the backyard so my guess can sit on it.Whats store in kampuchea carry this stuff?
I heard that two schools were named after Hun Sen. One was named "Sala Hun Sen Kbal Chke" -Hun Sen Dog Head School- because the village where the school located was called Phum Kbal Chke (dog head village). Another one was called "Sala Hun Sen Derachhan"- Hun Sen Animal School- because the school was located in a village called Phum Derachhan (village of animals). This village was called Phum Derachhan because in 1916, the villagers killed a French tax collector named Bardez after they were upset with the burdens of high taxes. After that, the French colonial administrators named the village Phum Derachhan - village of animals.
The names of the schools have since been changed after Hun Sen complained and warned people who named those schools after him like that. However, the people who named those schools just wanted to please Hun Sen, but were oblivious to the fact that the names of the schools have insulted Hun Sen instead.
This is the risk that Hun Sen can expect and must be prepared to accept when he wanted everything named after himself. in Khmer we say "Domress Chiss Kor Aeng" - you try to outsmart someone, but instead you have outsmarted yourselves.
Too much!! Is it Kingdom of Cambodia or Kingdom of Hun Sen's family? Ah..! I see, maybe because of reconstruction of our country and all of infrastructures were paid by Mr. Hun sen and not by foreign donators. What a shame!!!
Somewhere paid by donors just he puts his name on everything, mini North Korea, Cambodia is sooner or later it will be Hun Sen the dear leader of salvation wht an insult to us it's the kingdom of Cambodia not the kingdom of cronies.
is this a plan to destroy olympic stadium? cheap land for prime lane?
Don't care, all I need is my toilet name after Hun sen,I don't have money to buy one but,I'll go steal one, put on my backyard for my friends to sit on while they drunk on their homemade alcohol during party once in a while.
It'd be nice if the toilet has Hun sen face printed on the seat with one eye blinded,looks exactly like Hun sen.I know the bridge name after him as well. My drunkage's friend peer on toilet seat thatwise,I want Hun sen face on the seat of my toilet,this guy he can't aim right!! Lol....lol..
shut the f up all of you comments. hun sen is not that great but this design is promising for srok khmer. i hope they add the lake to be included in this park to have a place to practice and cool down and maybe a running track incircleing it.
CPP dog, if Hun Sen is not great why doesnt he see that there are millions of Vietnam living in Khmer? Whats wrong with you CPP dog, Hun Sen ceded the Khmer land to Vietname, export the Khmer resources and Khmer timber to Vietnam, but Hun Sen is designing this park for Khmer?
This is what i call a CPP dog eating his own shit.
As much as we hate the CPP, let's not claim that there are million of youns illegally living in Khmer. This is a ridiculous charge.
Fight the yuon that live in your neighborhood and criticize Hun sen but don't disagree everything that he does. The ways you do only make us Khmer leaders look negative and at the same time make srok Khmer and Khmer look even dumber. I don't like Hun sen cus he lose koh tral island and other borders and uncontrol Immigrants especially the leach yuon. Everything else are minor setback.
It must hate a lot to call us Khmer a dog. It take me a lot to call any Khmer a dog. I don't even call pol pot a dog. I don't even call any Khmer l a dog, period! But when it come to calling the yuon, I called the very leechy dog of all dogs dog dog ...etc. got my drift you fool.
Now this guy maybe a dog
I call Hun Sen a dog, all CPP doggies are dogs. Khmers are dogs if they eat with the dogs.
Damn Pol Pot is a dog, the worst of all the dogs in Srok Khmer. He's a Khmer big dog who killed millions of us.
I give up all you Khmer. Too much fools
Any one disagrees with 1:19 PM is a dog. A little or a lot it doesn't matter. As long as you disagree with him, you are a dog.
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