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Premier’s Attack on Foreign Media Offers Lessons
Letter to The Cambodia Daily, 27 July 2011
Many Cambodian journalists were concerned but not surprised at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s recent criticism of Radio Free Asia and Voice of America Radio as reported in Monday’s Cambodia Daily, “Hun Sen Talks Tribunal, Blasts US-Funded Radio” (page 24).
First, journalists working for different local media outlets look at the two American radio stations and other foreign-language media as a professional standard and to measure how far they can go in terms of pushing the limits of press freedoms in Cambodia.
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Reporter complians of ‘beating’
- by Mom Kuntear and Daniel Sherrell, The Phnom Penh Post, Tuesday, 12 July 2011
A REPORTER at Resmey 7 Makara newspaper has accused a timber broker of beating him after he took pictures of the man’s truck, which he believes was transporting illegal lumber.
Plong Reth said yesterday that he had filed a complaint against Hout Sophann to the police chief of Sra Nge commune, in Siem Reap town, on Sunday – two days after the alleged incident.
“I sued [the broker] for injuries he caused me, and demanded he pay US$2000 in compensation,” he said. Continue reading
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