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

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.