AsiAn Development BAnk/ Environment OperAtions Center (www.gms-eoc.org) bAsed on UN FAO DigitAl Soil MAp of the World V 3.6 (www.fAo.org/geonetwork).  <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/lAyers/soils/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Prudential Corporation asia yesterday received “in-principle” approval from the Ministry of Economy and Finance to establish a foreign-owned life insurance operation in the country, an official statement from the company said. The announcement comes after Canadian life insurance giant Manulife on Thursday made public plans for <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/prudential-granted-approval-by-ministry/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

More than 200,000 garment workers in the red zones in Phnom Penh have been vaccinated during a vaccination campaign. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/more-than-200000-garment-workers-in-phnom-penh-get-jabs/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The government has allocated over 600 hectares of land in Phnom aural wildlife sanctuary in Kampong Chhnang province to a private company for development. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/tourism-development-underway-in-kampong-chhnang-province/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

From December, Cambodians can obtain a work permit from Thailand by spending $13, instead of the current fee of $52. <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/thailand-slashes-work-permit-fees-for-cambodians-to-13/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

“There may be times when you want to explain things through maps, but you don’t know how to create the maps. With the currently available technology, creating map has become relatively easy. You no longer need to be an expert to develop maps, provided that <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/making-digital-maps-using-free-and-simple-mapping-applications/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The residents of Street 105K can hear the train before they see it &ndash; a low rumble, a blaring horn, an incessant whistle. Motorists swerve out of the way, parting like a school of fish. Children scamper to the side. a railway employee, sitting on <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/capital-airport-train-vexes-residents/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodian diplomats and a range of government officials can now travel to Hong Kong without a visa and stay for 14 days under a new exemption agreement with the commercial Chinese city, officials said. The new exemption took effect on June 1, according to a statement <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/hong-kong-offers-visa-free-travel-to-officials/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Cambodia stands to be the biggest beneficiary, in terms of GDP growth, for the first decade following aSEaN Economic Integration in 2015, according to a study released publicly today by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). The ILO’s 160-page report says Cambodia could see a 19.9 per <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/cambodia-looks-to-be-winner-for-growth-for-aec-ilo/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

In a mass firing the scale of which has not been seen since January, Phnom Penh’s Xin Fang garment factory yesterday terminated 106 employees for protesting in front of the factory. Management at the Por Sen Chey district factory on Thursday already sacked nearly 30 striking <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/mass-firing-at-xin-fang-factory-2/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Amid reports of increAsed mAss-fAinting incidents in CAmbodiA’s gArment sector, workers, employers And government officiAls gAthered in Phnom Penh yesterdAy for A roundtAble discussion on the issue. The conference, which wAs orgAnised by the CAmbodiAn Center for Independent MediA, identified issues such As workdAy lengths And <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/solvAble-problems-focus-of-fAinting-review/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

A livestock industry representAtive hAs cAlled on the government to cAp CAmbodiA’s only live pig export compAny’s trAde with LAos, citing shortAges in the locAl mArket. CP CAmbodiA, A subsidiAry of the ThAi conglomerAte CP GlobAl, exported some 25,000 heAd of live swine &ndAsh; boArs, sows <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/cAll-to-cAp-cps-export-of-swine/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

As pArt pArt of its multibillion-dollAr UrbAn TrAnsport MAster PlAn, JApAn InternAtionAl CooperAtion Agency (JICA) unveiled A modern rAil system for Phnom Penh yesterdAy thAt could begin operAtion As soon As 2023. The trAins would thin out trAffic on the cApitAl’s choked-up roAds, which currently lAck <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/first-buses-now-trAins-could-come-to-cApitAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

Curfews and alcohol bans will to be lifted in “Yellow Zones” across the capital beginning today, Phnom Penh Capital Hall announced late Friday evening.   <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/alcohol-and-curfew-restrictions-lifted-beginning-saturday/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

ASEAN is confident thAt the goAl of estAblishing A single mArket would not be fAr, And the bloc will continue to Aim for it for the common interest of its people And leAving no one behind. <A href='https://opendevelopmentcAmbodiA.net/news/pm-hun-sen-sAys-AseAn-optimistic-About-Achieving-single-mArket-goAl/ ' clAss='cAmbodiA-color'>...A>

The Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports supports the initiatives by the Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training to modernise the Technical and Vocational Education Training (TVET). <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/minister-of-education-supports-tvet-modernization/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Experts are recommending that a proposed dam on the Sesan River in northeast Cambodia be equipped with earthquake protection measures, after discovering a quake occurred in the area some 30 years ago. The proposed Lower Sesan II dam would be situated on a site in Stung <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/dam-in-northeast-built-on-earthquake-site-study-finds/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

The Cambodian government has cancelled a 14,981-hectare concession in the Cardamom mountains granted to an australian firm for a banana plantation, the conservation group Wildlife alliance has reported. Wildlife alliance has long lobbied against the concession in Koh Kong province’s southern cardamom forest on which Indochina <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/land-concession-cancelled-by-pm/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Sheltering under a blue tarpaulin amid dense woodland in Cambodia’s Cardamom Mountains, Nhean* sits and waits for night to fall after a long day scouring the protected forest for luxury timber. He says he works for a broker who is a supplier to one of Cambodia’s <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/caught-up-in-the-middle/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>

Police said Thursday they are investigating the possibility of a third suspect who has been implicated in a fraud and forgery case over a mining deal, for which a Cambodian businessman and a Chinese associate are already awaiting trial. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Tuesday <a href='https://opendevelopmentcambodia.net/news/police-investigating-third-suspect-in-mondolkiri-mining-fraud/ ' class='cambodia-color'>...a>