Phnom Penh: The Ministry of Commerce held the second Cambodia Digital Trade Forum and Online Expo on September 12–13, 2025, under the theme “Building Cambodia’s Future through Digital Trade,” to support the country’s digital trade development.
At the September 12 opening at Koh Pich City Hall, Commerce Minister Cham Nimul commended the organising team and partners for their close cooperation. She linked the event to the first phase of the Pentagonal Strategy and Cambodia’s goals of upper-middle-income status by 2030 and high-income status by 2050. Priorities include digital infrastructure and knowledge, policy awareness, market diversification for Cambodian products through e-commerce, stronger private-sector and stakeholder capacity and participation in digital trade and emerging technologies, online safety and consumer confidence.
She said the ministry is pursuing digital transformation through online and automated public services, including business registration, applications for certificates of origin, intellectual property registration and notices of secured transactions. Its Commerce Call Center, 1266, enables specialists to answer questions about domestic and international trade procedures.
In 2022, the ministry established CambodiaTrade.com, the first national B2B2C electronic marketplace, providing a free platform for Cambodian small and medium-sized enterprises and enabling processing businesses and artisans to sell in domestic and international markets.
On the forum’s second day, September 13, Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Chea Vandeth delivered a keynote on building a smart and secure digital Cambodia through youth, innovation and trust in the AI era. The two-day programme also covered guidance and governance for ethical online commerce, AI and e-commerce and smarter marketplaces, SMEs’ international expansion, consumer trust and digital identity, e-commerce trustmarks, social-media revenue, a youth debate, and product and service displays through booths and CambodiaTrade.com.
By ចិន្តា ទីទិ.
