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

Government says CNN described Angkor Wat as being in Thailand

Cambodia’s Ministry of Tourism says CNN International described the Angkor Wat temple as being in Thailand in a posting on its Facebook page earlier this week. ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=11&token=OTM5ODQzMjczOTQ

Mfone staff paid final wages

Bankrupt telecommunications company Mfone yesterday handed out the final instalments of unpaid wages to former employees. More than 1,000 former Mfone staffers received the remaining 30 per cent of their unpaid wages after the telecommunications firm filed for bankruptcy in February 2013. Since then, workers have ...

May Kunmakara
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/mfone-staff-paid-final-wages

E-Commerce Law goes ahead with WB funding

A draft law on e-commerce that would regulate electronic trade in Cambodia will arrive at the Council of Ministers in August, following revision by two other state institutions, officials at the Ministry of Commerce said Wednesday. Orm Dararith, director of the Ministry of Commerce’s legal department, ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/e-commerce-law-goes-ahead-with-wb-funding-60518/

Teenager charged for hacking government site

A 17-year-old high school student was charged Wednesday after he confessed to hacking a government website and creating a Facebook page on which he encouraged people to attack government websites as well as the websites of pro-government groups, officials confirmed, though the exact charges are ...

Eang Mengleng and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/teenager-charged-for-hacking-government-site-60512/

Former Mfone employees demand severance pay

About 30 former employees of now-defunct mobile operator Mfone protested Tuesday outside the office of the company’s liquidator, demanding pay promised to them and more than 1,000 other employees after the operator collapsed last year. Mr. Darin said he was paid 70 percent of his ...

Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/business/former-mfone-employees-demand-severance-pay-60454/

App aims to report bribes

Cambodians may soon find it easier than ever to report official corruption, and not just to the authorities or their friends and neighbours, but to the whole world, thanks to the impending launch of a Khmer-language version of the graft-reporting smartphone app Bribespot. Already popular in ...

Stuart White
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/app-aims-report-bribes

Cambodian police arrest 10 Chinese on telephone fraud charges

Cambodian police detained 10 Chinese nationals, including three females, who were allegedly involved in a telecom scam, a local military police chief said. Heng Bunty, chief of Preah Sihanouk provincial military police, said the police raided two rented houses in the southern province on Wednesday and ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-05/28/c_133368894.htm

US army shuts down website cited in HRW report

Four days after Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report criticizing Washington for supporting Cambodia’s “abusive armed forces,” a Facebook page containing photos cited in the report has been removed from the Internet. According to the U.S. Embassy in Phnom Penh, the Facebook page titled “Angkor ...

Matt Blomberg
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/us-army-shuts-down-website-cited-in-hrw-report-59509/

Transparency group to launch anti-graft app

Transparency International Cambodia (T.I.) will next week launch an app for smartphones that allows users to log instances of bribery with the advocacy group. Bribespot, the work of a team of German computer programmers, will encourage users to share details of corrupt activity in real time, ...

Matt Blomberg and Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/transparency-group-to-launch-anti-graft-app-59242/

Country’s first Japanese news website launched

Thmey Thmey online news website on Wednesday launched a Japanese-language version of the site to help illuminate the world of Cambodian politics and business for Japanese residents here, as well as those considering relocating or investing in the country. The news site, which was set up ...

Hul Reaksmey and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/countrys-first-japanese-news-website-launched-58743/

Leaked draft of Cambodia's proposed cyber law reveals threat to free expression

TV news viewers in Cambodia are fed a steady diet of praise for the government and top officials. Whether they’re giving speeches that go on for hours, cutting a ribbon at a new development project, or shaking hands with foreign dignitaries, government leaders are presented ...

Kyle James
http://www.dw.de/leaked-draft-of-cambodias-proposed-cyber-law-reveals-threat-to-free-expression/a-17629723

Media experts fear online restrictions in Vietnam, Cambodia

Media experts warn that Vietnam continues to restrict social media, and Cambodia could be following suit. At a forum in Washington to mark World Press Freedom Day on May 3, panelists said online and traditional media activities have been restricted by Vietnamese authorities. The forum, ...

Sok Khemara,
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/media-experts-fear-online-restrictions-in-vietnam-cambodia/1910603.html

Government wants money for use of .kh suffix

The Telecommunication Regulator of Cambodia (TRC) on Wednesday issued a notice warning private companies and state institutions to pay their 2013 fees for using the country suffix .kh on their websites. “TRC would like to invite excellencies and okhnas that use websites with .kh to communicate ...

Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/government-wants-money-for-use-of-kh-suffix-58322/

Ministry plans to drag schools into digital era

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport is plunging public schools into the digital age with a new interactive technology plan fit with bells, whistles and 3G applications, light-years ahead of its mostly dirt-floor school houses. The five-year, $1.3 million project, developed and funded by Cellcard, ...

Laignee Barron
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ministry-plans-drag-schools-digital-era

ACU arrests two members of hacking group

The Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) said that it arrested and sent to two members of hacking group Anonymous Cambodia to Phnom Penh Municipal Court for questioning. “The ACU sent the two hackers on Sunday to the court for questioning,” said Om Yingtieng, the ACU president. Yingtieng, however, hasn’t ...

The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/detail/1?page=15&token=MTg5NTZhYzdjNGF

Two more Anonymous Hackers arrested

Two more alleged members of the hacking group Anonymous Cambodia were arrested Thursday for attacking the website of the Anti-Corruption Unit (ACU) and taking it offline for more than two hours this week, an official confirmed Friday. “We arrested two men and they were both sent ...

Kuch Naren and Joshua Wilwohl
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/two-more-anonymous-hackers-arrested-57976/

Telecoms unconsulted on cyberlaw provisions

Telecommunications companies say they are being left in the dark on the controversial draft law on cybercrime, despite provisions in the proposed law allowing prosecutors to order internet service providers to preserve data for them as part of criminal investigations. Three large telecom firms providing internet ...

Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/telecoms-unconsulted-cyberlaw-provisions

Cambodia unveils 2 suspects for hacking into gov't websites

Cambodia on Tuesday revealed two suspected hackers, who have attacked in large scales on the information technology networks of the national institutions, the National Police announced in its website. Bun Kingmongkol Panha, 21, and Chou Songheng, 21, both are the third year information technology students at ...

Xinhuanet News Staff
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2014-04/22/c_133281810.htm

Cybercrime law may silence critics, NGOs say

Cambodia’s cybercrime law, a draft of which was made available online Wednesday, could be used to arbitrarily punish people who share controversial opinions online or air complaints about the CPP government, rights groups said Wednesday. According to the law, people who publish content online that slanders ...

Joshua Wilwohl and Hul Reaksmey
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cybercrime-law-may-silence-critics-ngos-say-56288/

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