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Censored Cambodian journalists join forces in new network

On September 4, 2017, independent English-language newspaper The Cambodia Daily, which had reported in the country for 25 years, went to print for the last time. After being forced to close over a tax dispute widely seen as a politically motivated attempt to harass the newspaper, its last edition led with a front-page story about […]

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Two years of legal limbo for Cambodia journalists charged with espionage

Two years after their arrest in Cambodia on groundless esiponage-related charges, former Radio Free Asia (RFA) journalists Uon Chhin and Yeang Sothearin remain on trial in a case that has been repeatedly delayed, in part due to lack of evidence, leaving the pair in legal limbo and a state of constant uncertainty about their future. […]

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Cambodia ‘fake news’ laws tighten noose on press freedom

Last month, Cambodia’s Information Ministry took to the Internet to step-up its public warnings to news organizations in the Kingdom over the dissemination of so-called “fake news”. Pledging stricter enforcement of the country’s media regulations, director-general of the General Department of Information and Broadcasting Phos Sovann said that his office would renew its efforts to […]

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Cambodia media stranglehold continues despite propaganda

On January 11, over 4,000 people, including hundreds of journalists, gathered in Phnom Penh for a “solidarity dinner” organized by Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen. It was the third time that the prime minister had hosted this now-annual event intended to strengthen relations between journalists and the government. “The progress of the nation cannot be […]

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