Cambodia lost a once-good reputation for press freedom
Early this year, Cambodia has a piece of good news to impress the world. Reporters Without Borders released a new press freedom index ranking Cambodia at 85 among 169 countries in the world.
Though this figure seemed low regarding the respect for press freedom in a democracy, Cambodia’s ranking far surpassed that of senior democracies in [...]
Attending journalist training class
For more than 4 years, I abandoned my study after graduating university, even attending the short training course. Last week, I attended the journalist training course at the Cambodia Communication Institute under funding from UNESCO. The training course was providing the participants how to write articles for peace and conflict prevention in the current society.
There [...]
Access to information, freedom from fear essential to journalists
(This articles published on the Cambodia Daily is written by Mr. Choeun Chhean Nariddth, Media Advisor at InterNews)
I’d like to add some concerns about the press freedom in Cambodian to the article “Association Reports Mixed Bag for Press Freedom†(Thursday, page25).
Apart from legal and physical threats against journalists, many other challenges face Cambodian media professionals [...]
Two Journalists arrested for extortion
Two local-Khmer newspapers journalists were arrested by municipal police on January 13 following Vang SreyNo,Karaoke actress and singer, filed a complaint with municipal anti-human trafficking and juvenile protection bureau against a man for extortion. She claimed that the man called her to make an appointment in order to show sex video clip that he said [...]