Cambodia’s population has risen to 14.68 million, up nine percent over the last five years, according to the intercensal population survey. The survey conducted by the Planning Ministry’s National Institute of Statistics showed 7.12 million of the population are males and 7.56 million females, Xinhua news ...

The Institut Pasteur du Cambodge (IPC) on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Food Safety and Best Practices Training Programme with b. Consulting Cambodia. ...

The Ministry of Industry and Handicrafts (MIH) has started a laboratory and a department to check on the quality and safety of local products to be exported, state news agency AKP reported yesterday.   ...

Cambodia’s nascent information technology (IT) sector faces an enormous skills gap that is slowing the industry’s development, increasing costs for businesses and affecting the competitiveness of firms in the Kingdom, according to a report released yesterday. ...

A senior official of the Ministry of Interior requested the Chinese side provide digital skills training to Ministry of Interior officials, especially officials of the General Department of Digital Technology and Education, which has just been established in the seventh mandate. ...

Trying to stay in sync with Cambodia’s rapid information and communication technology (ICT) growth, the Kingdom’s ICT Federation has been overhauled and is now fully chaired by industry insiders. ...

National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) governor Chea Chanto said on Monday that the Kingdom’s economy has maintained robust growth with low and manageable inflation which paves a favourable path for the banking sector’s continuous development. Meanwhile, fintech is playing an important role in the financial ...

The National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) will launch a Blockchain-based, peer-to-peer payment and money transfer platform in the next few months, its director-general Chea Serey told The Post on Monday. Dubbed ‘Project Bakong’, the scheme already has the support of 11 banks, with many more ...

Witnessing the merger between PRASAC Minority Depository Institution (MDI) and Kookmin Bank Cambodia, the Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) Chea Serey expressed hope to see more consolation happening in the industry to boost its resilience and efficiency. ...

With more cellphones existing in the Kingdom than citizens and one of the youngest populations in the world, Cambodia’s mobile financial industry may be poised to bring the Kingdom’s deficit in financial inclusion to an end. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on Chinese tech giant Huawei to continue to cooperate with the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications on training the local workforce and help Cambodia procure the latest technology to ensure cyber security and competition.   ...

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth requested a Japanese association to open a digital technology training school in Cambodia for highly skilled Cambodians to work in Japan and participate in national development. ...

Scientists and international experts fine-tuning the design of the Xayaboury dam have unveiled a scale model of the planned run-of-river structure to ensure the most efficient level of sediment flushing. The 1:120 scale model simulates actual hydrologic flows and water velocities in the Mekong River at ...

Minister of Civil Service Hun Many is committed to reforming and strengthening the public administration effectively and efficiently, as well as promoting and modernising public institutions in line with the Pentagon Strategy. ...

While financial technology, or fintech, has made little traction so far in Cambodia, panellists at a conference in Phnom Penh on Friday expressed confidence that the sector was poised for rapid growth.​ ...

A Cambodian startup was selected to take part in Startupbootcamp’s three-month fintech accelerator program in Singapore, becoming the second firm from the Kingdom to join the international program in as many years. ...

Cambodia ranked number 176 in the world in an index measuring the best places in the world to launch a tech startup, according to the first Draper Innovation Index (DII). ...

Investment capital firm Haystack Asia has acquired KhmerDev, an information technology company which was the first French-speaking IT service provider in Cambodia when it launched in 2001. ...

COVID-19 has shaken the whole world and has changed our routines overnight. However, at ODC we believe that such bizarre days can also be an opportunity to learn from each other, strengthen relationships and discover new things.We encourage ODC users and ICT enthusiasts to participate ...

Amid reports of the emergence of the Zika virus in Myanmar and the discovery of the first birth defect believed linked to the virus in Vietnam, two researchers with Phnom Penh’s Pasteur Institute have concluded that Cambodia is at high risk of its own Zika ...