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This entertaining tale about a reporter’s Cambodian encounter with an eccentric Russian billionaire is well worth a read.
Check out my latest story in the @MekongReview, about a rumble in the Cambodian jungle with a real(ish) Russian oligarch. mekongreview.com/meeting-men…
Check out my latest story in the @MekongReview, about a rumble in the Cambodian jungle with a real(ish) Russian oligarch. mekongreview.com/meeting-men…
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WATCH: @Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo reunite with their families after being freed from jail in Myanmar. More here: reut.rs/2VpMkEh
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Wisdom on a slide. @Colum_M talking about his Chinarrative media startup. #splicebeta
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Really happy that we got so many Cambodian journos out at #SpliceBeta.
With a group of #cambodian #media professionals at @splicenewsroom event!!!
“Before I only needed to care about what news I should cover. Now, I have to think in a more entrepreneurial way for running Cambonomist.” —@SotheaThai
Joshua Wilwohl retweeted
The hardest thing I've ever had to write. Lyra McKee, my former student who was shot and killed this week. link.medium.com/FumNJCBQ2V
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A Cambodian story:
This is Saing Soenthrith. He was born in Phnom Penh in 1964. There aren't any photos of him as a child, because when he was a schoolboy the Khmer Rouge seized the city and sent its entire population to the countryside to do slave labor under brutal conditions.
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The new owner of the @phnompenhpost - Sivakumar S. Ganapathy - held a press conference today. Here's his response (and new editor's) to allegations Vietnamese state-linked hackers used the paper's website to target local NGO @licadho #Cambodia
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Received information that Cambodia Telecommunications Ministry has called May 23 meeting of ISPs regarding plan for all domestic & international internet traffic to pass through state-owned Telecom Cambodia transit center
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⚡️ A revolt at the @phnompenhpost.
teapaw.org/i/moments/993783268477…
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For all the hand-wringing about how Facebook and Twitter are a threat to democracy in SE Asia, we've found them essential this week, as Cambodia's last independent daily newspaper has been sold and gutted. I predict the utility of social media will be magnified in coming months.
Joshua Wilwohl retweeted
This morning edition of The @PhnomPenhPost, with the bleak Monday incident being placed on its own front page. There are only 12 pages with significant absence of the list of the editorial team.
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The Phnom Penh Post issue this morning, the morning after the acquisition. #Cambodia
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"It’s their business and they said, ‘Kimsong, you’re the editor-in-chief – and you made a big mistake.’”
#PhnomPenhPost #Pressfreedom
sea-globe.com/phnom-penh-pos…
Joshua Wilwohl retweeted
.@phnompenhpost sold to Malaysian investor. Story is still online atm, but for when it's not phnompenhpost.com/business/p… by @BrendanOByrne & @antbaliga who resigned after new owners told them to take the story off the website
