China Unicom launches new Hong Kong-Cambodia cable link as mainland firms leverage city

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A new state-of-the-art submarine cable, which will enable faster internet for Cambodia, made a successful landing in Hong Kong earlier this week, another milestone in a series of projects undertaken by Chinese firms to bolster information infrastructure by laying and expanding international seabed networks.The project, named SHV-HK, links Sihanoukville, a coastal port city in Cambodia, to Hong Kong, traversing 3,000 kilometres through the Gulf of Thailand, the southern tip of Vietnam and the...