Local version of Bribespot allows anyone with access to smartphone or computer to pinpoint where, to whom, how much they paid a bribe.
Opposition leader Sam Rainsy last week claimed he has become the most popular Cambodian politician on Facebook leading into the July elections.
Divon Lan, product manager of Google’s Next Wave Emerging Markets program, recently spoke to VOA Khmer about what the new service means for the average Cambodian.
Applications for mobile phones and mobile devices—from games to maps navigation—are becoming increasingly popular in Cambodia. Bun Tharum, a technology reporter and VOA Khmer contributor, says that in Cambodia, applications like Angry Birds, Google Maps, and Facebook are popular—but developers are also building local apps. VOA Khmer’s Soeung Sophat reports for “Digital Voices.”
Cambodia is in the beginning stages of citizen journalism, US Embassy spokesman Sean McIntosh said.
The air balloon had reached an altitude of 300 meters when a strong wind pushed it down and into a palm tree.
Total revenue for Internet use is now worth about $1.4 million, according to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications.
Social media has the power to help Cambodia correct some of its social ills, including corruption and the abuse of power, a youth activist says.
This is the fifth such scheme to be broken up in Cambodia in recent years, with cooperation from Chinese authorities, who are having to track extortion operations outside the country after a crackdown within it.
With the increased used of social media, consumers in this new generation can access media anywhere, any time, through laptops and smartphones.
Some 200 bloggers and technology experts from 15 countries hotly debated the issue at a five-day conference, called BlogFest, in Siem Reap earlier this month.
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