Filed under: Chronology of Khmer Media
A Chronology of Media Events in Cambodia
1863: Cambodia becomes a French colony.
1935: A literature review called Reatrei Thngay Sao (Saturday Night) is published.
1939: First known Khmer-language newspaper, Nokor Wat, is published in Cambodia by three Khmer nationalists: Pach Chheun, Sim Var, and Son Ngoc Thanh.
1942: Nokor Wat is confiscated by the French who accuse the newspaper of being ultra-nationalist. Pach Chheun is arrested and Son Ngoc Thanh flees to Thailand, then to Japan.
1945: Son Ngoc Thanh returns to Cambodia and resumes the publication of Nokor Wat when Cambodia was under a short occupation by the Japanese army. (more…)
