The Kingdom will host its inaugural Cambodia Youth Internet Governance Forum to bridge the technology divide among the younger generation as part of its continued digitalization drive. ...

Blockchain network CamDL launches this week with the aim of providing the public with a platform to experiment with blockchain technology to solve daily issues, such as managing digital assets and strengthening data protection.​ ...

Get a loan sanctioned within a few hours, sometimes in minutes, and that too on the basis of an application you place through a mobile chat sitting at home! Well, this is already happening in Cambodia and some microfinance institutions (MFIs) have embraced the fast-developing ...

Cambodia says it hopes to have road connectivity to Vietnam and Thailand by 2015. The connection would be part of Asean integration, a process where Cambodia lags behind its neighbors. Six countries of the Mekong River delta have worked toward linking by road since 1998, in an ...

Smart Axiata, one of the leading mobile operators in Cambodia, yesterday officially launched its digital young innovator program SmartStart, aimed at helping young Cambodians develop their innovative digital-related business ideas into actual businesses or products.SmartStart is a nine-month university program initiated to inspire, enable and ...

Recent high school graduates are being encouraged to study digital technology-related subjects at university to fill the skills gap and help develop the country. ...

Cambodia and the US have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on patent cooperation, the move that will accelerate the bilateral trade between the two countries, according to the Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation (MISTI). ...

The Industry Ministry announced that the Kingdom’s water supply rose significantly last year, with more than 1,091,869 households receiving clean water. ...

The Ministry of Industry, Science, Technology and Innovation has suspended Phoenix Industrial’s operations after the factory discharged waste into the Sangke River in Phleav village, Treng commune, Ratanak Mondul district in Battambang province. ...

As Cambodia aims to become an upper-middle-income economy by 2030 and a high-income economy by 2050, it needs to focus on encouraging research and development (R&D) and become a knowledge-driven economy. ...

The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications proposed an expansion in cooperation and partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to speed up Cambodia’s journey towards digital revolution. ...

Cambodia has been diversifying into the industrial sector from garment manufacturing to non-garment manufacturing, using skilled labour and technology in the production chains. ...

ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI, provides many new opportunities, yet concerns have been raised over copyright issues as it seems unclear who owns the generated content: the users, tech companies or data owners? ...

New research on the cultural causes of and solutions to violence against women was presented in Phnom Penh on Friday in a bid to help those interested in ending violence understand what fuels it, specifically in a Cambodian context. The research is 25 years in the ...

Minister of Post and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth encouraged female students to join a new digital competition. The format features training, a digital bootcamp and a pitch contest for each team’s finished product.​ ...

The Ministry of Economy and Finance has called on all unregistered pawnshops to apply for an operating license by March 31 or face legal action, according to a government announcement on Friday. The move follows the 2010 law that first legalised pawnshops in the Kingdom, an ...

Vietnam’s Unicorn Ultra (U2U) ecosystem, an All-in-One platform for potential builders, opened its representative office in Cambodia to introduce, build and develop products applying block chain, artificial intelligence (AI), and Big Data. ...

The greatest obstacle to increased contraception use in Cambodia isn’t the price of birth control or the social stigma around using it, a new study has found, it is fear of side effects. What’s more, this fear may arise from the many disparate medical systems operating ...

Cambodia’s cybercrime law was leaked earlier this year. Cambodian officials have denied the existence of such a draft law, but local and international rights group have criticized the secret draft process, as well as some stipulations that might affect freedom of speech online. VOA Khmer ...

Amnesty International and rights group Licadho in a joint statement yesterday called on UN member states to “address the country’s human rights crisis” at a UN Human Rights Council hearing in Geneva on Tuesday. The statement, which was sent to foreign embassies, the Cambodian government and ...