State-owned Telecom Cambodia to help ‘analyze and manage social media broadcasts’

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Cambodian free speech critics have raised grave concerns about the government’s plans to resurrect the introduction of a national internet gateway. (Nikkei montage)

FIONA KELLIHER

October 20, 2025 15:22 JST

LONDON — Cambodia aims to start building key infrastructure for its national internet gateway (NIG) next year, jump-starting a moribund project experts say will bolster the government’s ability to censor online activity, according to documents viewed by Nikkei Asia.