Southeast Asia Globe: Facebook becomes No 1 news source in Cambodia

December 16, 2016 — Southeast Asia Globe, The Phnom Penh Post, and The Cambodia Daily feature The Asia Foundation’s newly-released report Mobile Phones and Internet Use in Cambodia 2016:

Almost half of Cambodians own at least one smartphone, according to an annual report on mobile phones and the internet from the Asia Foundation and Open Institute.

Their survey of urban and rural Cambodians found a marked rise in smartphone ownership, with the number of people saying they own at least one smartphone rising from just one in five in 2013.

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