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Engaging online content and more targeted social media outreach are major keys for commercial success in Cambodia, whose youthful population has been identified as the world’s most receptive to social media advertising and content, a market researcher said on November 3. Eelco Dijkhuizen, general manager ...

Telcotech, a subsidiary of local internet provider Ezecom, announced on October 25 that it is nearing completion of Cambodia’s first submarine fibre-optic cable, which it expects to be operational by early next year. The Malaysia-Cambodia-Thailand submarine cable system will connect the three countries directly and link in ...

Four government agencies in Laos and Vietnam have agreed to share their work with the aim of bolstering social science research in their two countries. The four entities agreed to step up exchanges in the field at a ceremony attended by the Vietnamese Ambassador to Laos, ...

From attacks on Ukrainian power grids to central bank heists in Bangladesh and the leak of stolen information from the Democratic National Committee in the U.S., cybersecurity threats have escalated massively in recent years. Governments, companies and individuals are equally susceptible all over the world, but ...

The Lao Journalists’ Association and Vietnam Journalists’ Association on October 17 agreed to tighten their cooperation through more discussions and training sessions. The two sides agreed to boost ties during a visit by a Lao delegation in which 11 members of the LJA, led by its ...

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications has prohibited telecom operators from engaging in unreasonably strong competition to ensure proper management and productive competition in the industry. Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Mr Thansamay Kommasith issued a Ministerial Decision recently that prohibits companies from providing free telephones, ...

The Lao Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and the Ministry of Information and Communications of Vietnam have reached cooperation agreements in relation to the development of telecommunications and information communication technology. A signing ceremony in relation to the cooperation agreements took place in Vientiane on September ...

Vietnam hopes to expand cooperation with Japan in three priority areas in information and communications technology following a Vietnam-Japan policy dialogue on ICT in Hanoi on September 15. The priority areas are identified as policies and a strategy for the development of 4G/5G networks after the ...

The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society will be officially established on September 16, replacing the Information and Communications Technology Ministry. The MDE is being set up as part of the government’s “Thailand 4.0” policy. The Royal Gazette announced on September 15 that the MDE would become ...

The Highways Department proposed at a meeting on September 14 that two motorway projects. The meeting was held to prepare for today’s meeting of the Private Public Partnership Policy Committee. The committee is to consider the two projects. According to the Highways Department, the PPP Gross Cost model ...