Journalists arrested for extorting wood traders
Nine local journalists were arrested yesterday morning in Preah Vihear province’s Koulen district over allegations they threatened to write about local villagers who were transporting illegal timber unless they handed over cash, according to officials. ...
Buth Reaksmey Kongkea
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/24768/journalists-arrested-for-extorting-wood-traders/
Anti-fake news site online
The Women’s Media Centre of Cambodia (WMC) has launched an information verification website named ‘Crosscheck WMC’ to combat the spread of misinformation on social media. It will enable the public to verify information from a number of sources to identify whether the information is true ...
Long Kimmarita
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/anti-fake-news-site-online
Journalist union urges end to fake news dissemination
The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia (UJFC) has called on journalists and social media users to put greater focus on moral and ethical considerations when disseminating information in order to avoid spreading fake news. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journalist-union-urges-end-fake-news-dissemination
Minister of Information collaborates with Cambodian-Chinese Journalists to combat misinformation
Neth Pheaktra, Minister of Information, met with Soy Sopheap, President of the Cambodian-Chinese Journalists Association (CJCA), and his colleagues on March 5, 2024, at the Ministry of Information in Phnom Penh. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501451399/minister-of-information-collaborates-with-cambodian-chinese-journalists-to-combat-misinformation/
Officials on run after journalist reports threats, illegal timber
A reporter in Mondulkiri province who climbed a mango tree to look into a police official’s compound for a rumored stash of illegal timber over the weekend says he was later detained and threatened with a beating. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/officials-on-run-after-journalist-reports-threats-illegal-timber-115055/
‘Fake news’ being investigated
The Ministry of National Defence is cooperating with involved authorities to investigate a case of alleged fake news that said a well-known deputy commander supported the Cambodia National Rescue Movement. Ministry spokesman Chhum Socheat said the Ministry of National Defence was cooperating with authorities to investigate ...
May Titthara
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/50106512/fake-news-investigated/
PM praises media for efforts on ‘fake news
Prime Minister Hun Sen praised journalists and a large number of local press institutions for making efforts to prevent the spread of fake news propagated by “rebels” and opportunists who intended to incite social unrest against the government. Hun Sen’s statement was made through a ...
Mech Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-praises-media-efforts-fake-news
H&M tries exclusivity agreement
Clothing giant H&M is testing the garment production waters by entering into exclusivity agreements with factories in Cambodia and Bangladesh, according to a report from Bloomberg News yesterday. This means that Sweden-based H&M would buy all of the factory’s output. H&M, it seems, would still be ...
Daniel de Carteret
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/business/hm-tries-exclusivity-agreement
Government shuts down misleading websites
The government has ordered internet service providers (ISPs) to block websites and social media accounts of nine domains representing at least three news outlets, claiming the organisations are spreading misleading information and discrediting the government. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501326261/government-shuts-down-misleading-websites/
Cambodian-Chinese Media Urged To Collaborate In Combating Fake News
Minister of Information of Cambodia Neth Pheaktra has called on Cambodian and Chinese journalists to work together to protect the integrity of international news by combating fake news and information interference to promote the building of a Community of Common Destiny for humanity. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501394385/cambodian-chinese-media-urged-to-collaborate-in-combating-fake-news/
Corruption not rampant: Hun Many
Hun Many, the youngest son of Prime Minister Hun Sen and an elected lawmaker in Kampong Speu province, has defended his party against allegations of nepotism, corruption and election irregularities in a foreign TV interview. In a wide-ranging Channel News Asia interview that aired on Friday, ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/corruption-not-rampant-hun-many
Prime minister demands end to fake news on virus
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday criticised several outlets for spreading misinformation on the novel coronavirus outbreak and instructed the Ministry of Information to do more to eradicate fake news. Speaking at a press conference at the Peace Palace on Thursday, Hun Sen said a ...
Khorn Savi
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prime-minister-demands-end-fake-news-virus
PM: Fight against fake news
Prime Minister Hun Sen raised cyber-security and access to information in his address to nearly 5,000 participants at the correspondents’ dinner held on Friday in Phnom Penh. In his speech, Hun Sen called on officials and members of the press to wage a fight against ...
Niem Chheng
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/pm-fight-against-fake-news
Tycoon threatens to have journalists shot dead
A glass-manufacturing tycoon on Saturday threatened to shoot dead two local journalists as they were covering a dispute he was having with another businessman in Phnom Penh, according to a report posted on the National Police website. The journalists, from Cambodia Express News and Bayon TV, ...
Eang Mengleng
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tycoon-threatens-to-have-journalists-shot-dead-63937/
Spokesman says closure of 3 more news websites due to dissemination of false information
Meas Sophoan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Information, claimed that the closure of The Cambodia Daily and the Kamnotra website was because they spread false information and have no regulations as a press. ...
Lay Sopheavatey
https://thmeythmey.com/?page=detail&id=128389
Fake social media post promises $1,000 for free
A social media post appeared recently promising all Cambodian citizens a cash donation from the government. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501424905/fake-social-media-post-promises-1000-for-free/
Government calls for PM ‘fake news’ correction
The Cambodian government on Friday strongly urged Singaporean outlet Channel News Asia (CNA) to issue a correction to an article it published on Thursday, claiming Prime Minister Hun Sen had called on the military to destroy the country’s political opponents. The statement, issued by the ...
Mech Dara and Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/government-calls-pm-fake-news-correction
Journalist claims he was beaten
A local Pursat province journalist filed a lawsuit yesterday against a group of wood traders who he alleges beat him up on Tuesday. According to [Krouch] Non [Santre commune police chief], Nhok Yern, a reporter for Prum Bayon newspaper, and another journalist confronted men trafficking wood by cart. ...
Lieng Sarith
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/journalist-claims-he-was-beaten
Journalists accuse Ratanakkiri forestry official of intimidation
Four reporters accused a forestry official in Ratanakkiri province of locking them behind the gate of the local Forestry Administration headquarters Thursday morning in an attempt to stop them from reporting on the transport of illegally logged luxury wood. ...
Ben Sokhean
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/journalists-accuse-ratanakkiri-forestry-official-of-intimidation-91095/
Hun Many opens up to criticism
Prime Minister Hun Sen may regularly deliver hours of bombastic public oratory and rarely, if ever, allow anyone to ask questions of him. But his youngest son, Hun Many, a rising star in the ruling CPP, has begun doing just the opposite as he builds on ...
Kevin Ponniah
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/hun-many-opens-criticism