Every spring, all across Cambodia, high school seniors and young graduates open an account on the Études en France platform, fill in their choices, gather their bank statements, and wait — sometimes for months — for an answer that will decide their university year. Yet in Campus France's official statistics, Cambodia doesn't even appear among the top 25 countries of origin for international students in France

A new global index highlights Cambodia's contrast between an easy, affordable retirement and a still-young business climate — a contrast that recent economic data largely tempers

While European interest in Asia intensifies, a gap persists between dream destinations and those actually booked. A valuable lesson for Cambodia, which must rethink its positioning.

In its A Healthy Future report, published in 2026 by the World Bank, a multidisciplinary team of experts sounds the alarm. A silent epidemic of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) threatens Asia and the Pacific, a region home to over 2.3 billion people.