There’s a polite warning about throwing stones in glass houses. There’s a more impolite instruction to know the extent of one’s own ignorance. In perusing the Phnom Penh Post’s recent piece (“PM calls for ‘ethical fourth estate’,” January 23), one is compelled to scrutinize what emanated from Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet. The scene? The … Read more
Advertisement On September 14, the Cambodian news outlet CambojaNews published an article about an attack on a government critic that took place two days earlier. The particulars of this assault are interesting but extraneous to this article. In any case, the Agriculture Ministry subsequently claimed that CambojaNews had defamed it, so instructed the publication to … Read more
Advertisement Cambodia’s Ministry of Agriculture has threatened an independent media outlet with closure in response to an article about a violent attack on a government critic, in a test of press freedom for the new administration of Prime Minister Hun Manet. On September 14, the news site CambojaNews published an article about a September 12 … Read more