The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) has selected a high school in Takeo province to open the first Community Tech Centre (CTC). The pilot project comes ahead of expansion into high schools nationwide. ...

Cambodia has unveiled its Financial Technology (FinTech) Development Policy 2023-2028, aiming to enhance financial inclusion, maintain financial stability, and promote innovation. ...

Cambodia’s level of development of government technology measured by the Govtech Maturity Index (GTMI) has been upgraded by the World Bank (WB) to Grade B from C for 2022. ...

Collaboration within the education sector is key to fill the huge learning gap created by the pandemic, with a push needed for digital literacy, entrepreneurship skills, and technological readiness, a new roadmap reveals. ...

Twenty-two Chinese higher education institutions jointly held a one-day education exhibition here on Thursday with an aim to boost education cooperation between China and Cambodia and to attract more Cambodian students to study in China. The 2nd edition of China Higher Education Exhibition is held at ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen used a speech inaugurating a Chinese-funded university in Kratie on Wednesday to defend Chinese investment in Cambodia, which has come under fire in recent months both for its adverse economic side effects and its perceived potential for political influence. ...

The Minister of Health has instructed all health departments to completely eliminate illegal medical practitioners in order to ensure that only proper treatment is provided across the Kingdom. Speaking during the Roundtable Forum on Hepatitis C at the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh on ...

Newly released maps using U.S. satellite data show that Cambodia continued to suffer major deforestation in 2013, much of it in nominally protected forests and wildlife sanctuaries. In November 2013, the University of Maryland released what it said was the first study to combine a consistent ...

The Royal University of Phnom Penh plans to make its social work degree available to everyone next year, as young, locally trained graduates look to take the reins from foreign aid workers. RUPP Department of Social Work Faculty member Ung Kimkanika said the move would ...

In a significant stride towards ensuring equitable healthcare access for all citizens, Prime Minister Hun Manet has officially launched the Roadmap for Universal Healthcare Coverage in Cambodia 2024-2035. ...

Locally-owned Acleda Bank Plc will become the first commercial bank to be listed on the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX). It received an official letter to this effect from the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC) on November 26, which allows it to proceed with its plans for ...

Korean investors are looking forward to investing in the local stock market as it prepares to welcome Acleda Bank Plc into its main board. With Acleda Bank, one of the largest banks in the Kingdom, scheduled to go public in upcoming weeks, hundreds of Korean businesspeople ...

Hundreds of villagers from various provinces have occupied an economic land concession in Kampot province’s Chhuk district. The land was granted to Chan Sothea, vice president of the Cambodian Chamber of Commerce, and her company First Bio-Tech Agriculture by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries ...

Phnom Penh will host one of Asia’s biggest technology conferences later this month. FossAsia, a conference on open source and free software, will be held in the capital Feb. 28 to March 2—a free event open to students, developers and entrepreneurs. technologies discussed at the conference will ...

The new data, released by the University of Maryland, tracks forest cover loss globally using satellite imagery. Results showed that not only was 2016 worse than 2015, but of the 16 years for which deforestation was recorded, last year was the fourth worst – with ...

A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has found that the loss of dense forest in Cambodia is associated with higher risk of diarrhea, acute respiratory infection, and fever in children. ...

As Cambodia seeks greater integration with regional and global economies, a language expert warns against overreliance on foreign identity and language. Chan Virak, a doctorate student in culture, literacy and language at the University of Texas at San Antonio, says Cambodia should invest in its own ...

Sihanoukville Autonomous Port (SAP) is edging closer to be listed on Cambodia’s burgeoning stock exchange after five years of delays. The state-owned enterprise will start a formal process of studying investor demand by April, to decide how much shares will cost when the company makes its ...

Following a bruising first quarter, the Cambodia Securities Exchange (CSX) index has picked up over the last few days after Acleda Bank Plc’s (ABC’s) initial public offering (IPO).​ At Thursday’s close, the index ended 7.25 per cent higher at 793.59 points. Trading volume reached 280,791 ...

A Thailand-based technical university yesterday signed two memorandums of understanding (MoUs) with technical training institutes in Cambodia to improve human resources in the technical sector. The MoUs were signed between the Thai Rajamangala university of technology and the National Polytechnic Institute of Cambodia and the National ...