PHNOM PENH (Reuters)—Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen has banned
3G mobile phones after a complaint from his wife and her friends
about receiving pornography on them.
"I have written to the Minister of Telecommunications to delay the
use of certain mobile phones," Hun Sen told an assembly of Buddhist
monks in Phnom Penh Friday. "We can wait 10 more years until we
have managed to improve morality in society."
Hun Sen, a one-eyed former Khmer Rouge soldier who has been in
charge for the past 20 years, said his wife had signed a petition
asking him to act against the phones, which can send video as well
as still images.
Sexual violence and abuse are common in the war-scarred Southeast
Asian nation.
Cambodia's first 3G (third-generation) mobile network opened
earlier this year, but few people can afford the phones.
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