A new online platform, Kamnotra, launched on Tuesday by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM), aiming to consolidate access to public data in English and Khmer.
Journalists were subjected to violence, threats and criminal charges in 2020, as the Cambodian government targeted the free press but did not investigate crimes against reporters and editors, according to a new report.
An Information Ministry advisor was fired from his position, and a journalist association and Facebook news page he runs had their licenses revoked after he posted a picture of a packaged golf kit which he mistook for the first person to die from COVID-19.
Government officials said civil society calls for dropping charges against two former Cambodia Daily reporters in a 2017 incitement case was tantamount to interfering with court procedures.
The editor of Chinese-language news website Angkor Today will be deported from Cambodia after publishing a story claiming that coronavirus vaccines were being sold improperly out of Calmette hospital, officials said, as the tally for cases related to connected to the February 20 outbreak rose to 194 cases.
Authorities doubled down on threats of legal action against reporters who “interfere” in police investigations after four media associations on Friday called for clarification of a new directive, but the scope of police powers remains unclear, journalists and advocates said.
A Kampong Chhnang court convicted and sentenced a radio station owner to 20 months in prison on Tuesday for reporting about a land conflict between villagers and military officials in the province.
Rath Rott Mony sits at a Phnom Penh café over the weekend, dressed in a blue shirt and grey trousers – gone are the orange prison overalls. The media fixer and translator was released from prison on Friday.
A Kratie journalist has alleged that the provincial Military Police commander threatened him for reporting a story of illegal timber transports, where sources claimed the Military Police facilitated the movement of luxury logs.