The first comprehensive survey of the accessibility and usage of Cambodian financial services found that only 17 per cent of the Kingdom’s adult population is banked, with poor access to financial services among the key impediments to financial inclusion of those living in rural areas. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Current assets in Cambodia’s banking and financial institutions had risen to 25.6 billion U.s. dollars by June 2016, an increase of 21.3 percent in the last 12 months, according to the biannual report of the National Bank of Cambodia (NBC), or the central bank, on ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Ministry of Commerce has extended the deadline for companies to re-register their businesses online for a third – and “final” – time, giving companies until December 31 to complete the online registration before penalties kick in, according to a document posted yesterday on the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Ten students will have the opportunity to further their studies for free thanks to smart Axiata’s smartEdu scholarship Program, which not only covers their entire tertiary education tuition, but has also awarded them a monthly stipend amounting to $15,000 for the duration of their degree. ss='cambodia-color'>...

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 ss='cambodia-color'>...

Opposition leader sam Rainsy has waded into the Twittersphere, using his first tweet to congratulate Us President-elect Donald Trump on his victory, and later calling on the few Cambodians who use the site to register to vote in next year’s commune elections.   ss='cambodia-color'>...

Three houses collapsed into the Mekong River in Kratie’s Chhlong district after a riverbank gave way on Monday amid recent unseasonable heavy rains. Twenty-eight other houses in the predominately Cham village have been pre-emptively dismantled following the collapse, according to Meas Kunmony, district deputy governor. ss='cambodia-color'>...

The Constitutional Council of Cambodia on Monday rejected the CNRP’s complaints against the first 76 of 2,441 people the opposition party says were unlawfully registered to vote last year, arguing, like the National Election Committee, that the opposition party lacked evidence to back up its ss='cambodia-color'>...

Smart Axiata, Cambodia&rSquo;S leading telecommunicationS company, yeSterday launched a $5 million venture capital fund for digital Service companieS and Start-upS in the country.&nbSp;The Smart Axiata Digital Innovation Fund aimS to meet demandS for caSh and expertiSe aS the number of Cambodian digital entrepreneurS increaSeS rapidly. SS='cambodia-color'>...

With the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Asean less than a week away, government officials yesterday said that the theme of the three-day event would focus on “Youth, Technology and Growth”, while providing an opportunity to raise Cambodia’s international profile and attract more investors and ss='cambodia-color'>...

Some 100 villagerS in Koh Kong province&rSquo;S Thma Bang diStrict removed warning poStS put up by environmental rangerS and a conServation NGO around land that had been allegedly cleared by the reSidentS Since 2013 for farming, filing a complaint againSt the NGO for allegedly deStroying SS='cambodia-color'>...

The amount of money political parties spent on the campaign trail ahead of yesterday’s nationwide commune elections varied wildly, with observers and party members yesterday blaming the lack of a campaign finance law in Cambodia for what they characterised as the uneven playing field among ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Cambodian official has said Us President Donald Trump’s decision to leave the Paris Climate Agreement is “unethical” and “irresponsible”. Tin Ponlok, secretary general of the National Council for sustainable Development at the Ministry of Environment, said it was “regretful” that Trump decided to abandon the ss='cambodia-color'>...

Defence Minister Tea Banh’s son has been appointed a deputy governor of siem Reap province by Prime Minister Hun sen. Major General Tea seiha said he had not been told about the appointment officially so could not give a date for when he would take up ss='cambodia-color'>...

AEON Mall, the first large-scale modern shopping mall in Cambodia, recently celebrated its third year of operation in the Kingdom, but with several new high-end malls slated to open over the next few years, analysts expect more competition and sweeping changes in the country’s retail ss='cambodia-color'>...

A Chinese company has donated fire equipment to the Interior Ministry worth about $200,000, an official said yesterday. Neth Vantha, a fire department chief, said that Enterprise Limited of China is set to donate the equipment, including two fire trucks. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Prime Minister Hun sen announced on Friday that he will make weekly visits to garment factories across the country to better understand the demands and needs of workers, in what some observers said could be an attempt to appeal to potential voters before next July’s ss='cambodia-color'>...

Exports to the Us saw a modest rebound during the first half of the year, benefiting in part from new trade privileges that allow Cambodian-made travel goods to enter the world’s biggest consumer market duty-free, a Garment Manufacturers Association in Cambodia (GMAC) representative said yesterday. ss='cambodia-color'>...

Khmer Power Party head and former convicted “terrorist” sourn serey Ratha was arrested yesterday over a Facebook post criticising the deployment of troops to the Laos border by suggesting that grunts in the field would suffer while the military’s leaders hung back to enjoy “money” ss='cambodia-color'>...

A recent report by the World Economic Forum underscored the Kingdom’s poor performance in educating and training its citizens in order to develop a competitive workforce and put their skills to productive use, ranking it for the first time in its annual review as the ss='cambodia-color'>...