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CNRP registers company to run party’s television station

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said Thursday that a group of businessmen close to the opposition has successfully registered a company with the Ministry of Commerce that will hold the television license promised to the party. Mr. Sovann said that the CNRP received notice in the past ...

Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-registers-company-to-run-partys-television-station-72344/

Railway communities dissapointed with ADB's same response

People living along the railroads in Phnom Penh city has made another demonstration in front of ADB’s office in Cambodia for the third time. However, there was not any better response from ADB than the previous times. People affected by the railroad development project which ...

Ngem Sophal
http://www.khmer.rfi.fr/residents-in-rail-road-community-are-disappointed-with-adb-20-10-2014

CNRP begins registration for first opposition TV station

CNRP spokesman Yim Sovann said Monday that a group of people close to the opposition party has applied to register a firm with the government that will operate the television license promised to the CNRP by Prime Minister Hun Sen during the political deadlock. ...

Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cnrp-begins-registration-for-first-opposition-tv-station-70396/

Cambodian telecom firm cooperates with China's Huawei to build 4G network in Cambodia

Cambodian telecommunications company EMAXX signed a contract with China’s Huawei, a global ICT solutions provider, on Wednesday in order to develop EMAXX’s 4G network in Cambodia. The contract was inked between Ai Min, chief executive officer of EMAXX, and Weng Kefeng, deputy general manager of Huawei ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2014-09/17/c_133650709.htm

Government plans to regulate online content

The Ministry of Information is planning to begin regulating the Internet in the country to prevent offensive content from being posted online, ostensibly to prevent defamation and provocations to violence, according to a ministry official. ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-plans-to-regulate-online-content-67524/

Smart posts midyear gains

Mobile service provider Smart has outperformed its fellow Axiata Group subsidiaries in the first half of the year, according to the Malaysian conglomerate’s latest financial report. Driven by a 115 per cent increase in data traffic revenue, Axiata’s results show Smart’s gross revenue totalled 270 million ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smart-posts-midyear-gains

Telecom regulator warns fee dodgers

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) has issued a warning to 15 companies that offer Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services for allegedly failing to pay their annual fees. In a statement published on a local media website on August 22, the TRC demanded the companies ...

Hor Kimsay
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-regulator-warns-fee-dodgers

Metfone eyes sites in Areng

In what could be the latest sign that authorities are pushing ahead with the Areng Valley hydropower dam, Vietnam Military Telecommunications Group has sent engineers into the valley in Koh Kong province to scout for locations where its local subsidiary, Metfone, could build mobile phone ...

Daniel Pye
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/metfone-eyes-sites-areng

Citizen Journalists Move To Establish Wider Network

Around 80 citizen journalists from around Cambodia held a meeting in Phnom Penh Wednesday, in a first-ever networking event for a new kind of reporter in the country. Professional journalists and other media professionals joined the event, sponsored by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media and ...

Suy Heimkhemra
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/citizen-journalists-move-to-establish-wider-network/2422037.html

Media agencies warned about gambling ads

The Ministry of Information last week warned media organizations not to publish or broadcast advertisements from gambling outlets unless they have permission from the government to do so, according to a ministry notice obtained Tuesday. “The ministry previously advised [media outlets] to stop all types ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/media-agencies-warned-about-gambling-ads-65808/

Gov’t gives telecom firms time to digest new draft law

The ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) has postponed a two-day meeting with telecom firms to discuss a controversial draft law leaked to the Post last week, which details the government’s plan to assert control over the industry. A representative from one telecommunications provider who wished ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/gov%E2%80%99t-gives-telecom-firms-time-digest-new-draft-law

Telecom law outrage

Cambodia’s telecom sector is outraged over a draft law handed down by the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPTC) on Wednesday, which details a government plan to assert control over the industry. In what is being labeled an “unprecedented, draconian” effort to nationalise the industry, the ...

Eddie Morton
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/telecom-law-outrage

ICT federation launched in Cambodia

The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Federation was inaugurated here on Thursday with an aim to advance Cambodia to a digital age, officials said. Speaking at the launching ceremony, Kan Chanmeta, secretary of state of the Ministry of Post and Telecommunication, said the federation would be ...

Shanghai Daily News Staff
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=231571

Anonymous hacked us: Hun Many’s youth group

The Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia (UYFC), led by Hun Many, Prime Minister Hun Sen’s son, is claiming that one of its Facebook pages was hacked by international “hactivist” group Anonymous. ...

Vong Sokheng
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anonymous-hacked-us-hun-many%E2%80%99s-youth-group

Apple to officially sell iPhones in Cambodia

Apple Inc. on Friday will officially launch the iPhone in Cambodia through its authorized reseller, iOne, giving customers—long used to gray market iPhones—access to Apple’s warranty. “The sales launch will be July 18. iOne, which has the monopoly right to import Apple’s products to Cambodia’s market ...

Hul Reaksmey and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/apple-to-officially-sell-iphones-in-cambodia-64448/

Tycoon threatens to have journalists shot dead

A glass-manufacturing tycoon on Saturday threatened to shoot dead two local journalists as they were covering a dispute he was having with another businessman in Phnom Penh, according to a report posted on the National Police website. The journalists, from Cambodia Express News and Bayon TV, ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tycoon-threatens-to-have-journalists-shot-dead-63937/

Smartphone sales slowing

After years of ever-brisker sales, the smartphone market may be plateauing. Cambodians spent more than $300 million on smartphones last year, a 38 per cent increase from 2012’s figure of about $220 million, according to data from Singapore-based research firm GfK. Some 907,000 smartphones were sold in ...

May Kunmakara and Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/smartphone-sales-slowing

Online Khmer-English audio dictionary launches

Foreigners seeking to learn the Khmer language have long been restricted by a dearth of resources beyond beginner’s textbooks, often relying on conversation and the methods of individual teachers to advance their vocabulary and comprehension. Aiming to put a small dent in the situation, U.S. citizen ...

Alex Willemyns
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/online-khmer-english-audio-dictionary-launches-63885/

Online registration option to be rolled out to SMEs

The Ministry of Industry and Handicraft will introduce an online registration platform for Cambodia’s small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) this year, a ministry official confirmed yesterday. Heng Sok Kong, secretary of state at the ministry, said the new software for web registration was built in partnership ...

Annie Lee
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/online-registration-option-be-rolled-out-smes

Scores of Chinese arrested for phone scam

The Interior Ministry’s internal security department arrested 78 Chinese nationals Thursday for their alleged involvement in a VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) extortion scam in coordinated raids in Phnom Penh and two provinces. The men and women were arrested in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap and ...

Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/scores-of-chinese-arrested-for-phone-scam-63216/

Mobile network operators ordered to halt free SIM delivery, or face legal punishment

Authority has asked all mobile network operators in Cambodia to stop delivering free Sim Cards without getting a copy of identification card from their clients, warning that they would face legal action if they disobey the order. The warning was made during a meeting on Thursday ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZWE1NmIwNWIzMmN

ILO launches fifth round of radio competition

The International Labor Organisation launched Friday the fifth round of a radio competition to promote understanding of the Cambodian labor law among garment workers. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=13&token=ZmFlZmE0MjIwMDQ

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