Cambodia tech snapshots: Q1 2025
March 2025 ● February 2025 ● January 2025
- Cambodia’s population (2023): 17 million
- Cambodia’s online population: 5.4M / 32.8%
- Cambodia’s median age: 27.9 years
Profitence: E-commerce in Cambodia in 2024 (pdf link)
Cambodia snapshot: March 2025
- National Bank of Cambodia and China’s UnionPay Int’l launch phase 2 cross-border payments, now enabling Cambodians to make payments via QR codes in China and other countries / full item
- Cambodia’s Smart Axiata telco and Huawei ink MoU to jointly develop B2B solutions and market opportunities focusing on digitalization of local industries / full item
- Smart Axiata inks MoU to participate in GSMA Open Gateway ecosystem initiative, deploying Linux-based APIs with two other telcos / full item
- ICYMI: The Cambodia Blockchain Summit 2025 is set for March 30th in Phnom Penh / full item
- Cambodia’s Smart Axiata telco and Huawei ink MoU to jointly develop B2B solutions and market opportunities focusing on digitalization of local industries / full item
- Smart Axiata inks MoU to participate in GSMA Open Gateway ecosystem initiative, deploying Linux-based APIs with two other telcos / full item
- The Cambodia Blockchain Summit 2025 is set for March 30th in Phnom Penh / full item
Invested: Australia’s Southeast Asia Strategy Economic Strategy to 2040
Cambodia Tech news: February 2025
- The Toilet Board Coalition expands Accelerator to the Kingdom to drive progress on UN Sustainable Development Goal 6, sanitation for all by 2030 / full item
- A brief overview of Japan’s participation in the Kingdom’s moves towards digitalization, touching on development of Bakong payments and more / full item
- Digital & Green Innovation Accelerator launches with 9-month initiative to boost startups using digital and tech-enabled solutions for environmental sustainability / full item
- China’s BYD EV giant is to establish an assembly plant in Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone by year-end, initially assembling electric, and hybrid electric-gasoline units / full item
Glaad: Social Media Safety Index 2025
Cambodia: Tech in January 2025
- National Bank of Cambodia launches Bakong Tourists App partnership with Visa, enabling international tourists to make KHQR code payments at near 4.5M merchants / full item
- Can Nasdaq-Listed Grab’s Acquisition of Nham24 Spark Confidence in Cambodia’s Startup Ecosystem?’ / full item
- Government commits to major shift to EVs, targeting 35% electric cars, 40% electric buses, and 70% electric motorcycles by 2050 / full item
- Singapore-based Grab takes stake in Nham24 on-demand services and delivery platform / full item
