(Bun Tharum, Phnom Penh, BLOG) Eighteen-year-old Thim Chanrithy is now in Vietnam’s Cantho province for three months, writing software he proposed to the coding giant, Google, to make open-source software more portable. That idea has special applications in Cambodia, where the Internet is not widely used but where the movement of software from disc to […]
Internet Access is a Human Right, says United Nations report
Posted June 16th, 2011 at 8:33 am (UTC+7)
VOA Khmer’s Heng Reaksmey reported Tuesday that a rights group called for “greater Internet freedoms” as it released its report on “Internet Censorship: the ongoing crackdown on freedom of expression in Cambodia.” The Cambodian Center for Human Rights concluded the report saying that “The RGC to develop mechanisms to increase Internet penetration in Cambodia, to […]
Facebook App Released for Cambodian Users
Posted June 10th, 2011 at 2:27 pm (UTC+7)
Apple users can now communicate in Khmer language over social site Facebook thanks to a new free app, Facebook Khmer, released by a Cambodian software development firm. Khemara-Soft, which previously released free Radio Khmer app for Apple users, has just launched Facebook Khmer that “allows you to read/view text typing in Khmer within Facebook.” While the […]
Fake Online Identity Raises Concern as Facebook Is Taking off
Posted June 3rd, 2011 at 1:34 pm (UTC+7)
As Facebook is taking off in Cambodia, concerns over online identity also arise when several public profiles of Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen were found online, but denied by the premier cabinet. With more than 600 million users world wide, Facebook has a policy that allows its users to report fake profiles. But a quick […]
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