CPP-friendly businessman launches newspaper

13 May 2014
The Cambodia Daily
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Cambodian People's Party / CPP / Phnom Bokor National Park / T Mohan / The Khmer Times

T Mohan, a Malaysian publisher and businessman arrested in the 1990s for attempting to extort a casino executive, is back in Cambodia’s newspaper market. The Khmer Times, the latest English-language news offering from Mr. Mohan, hit newsstands earlier this month, with a government spokesman even resigning his position to report for the newspaper. … According to sub-decrees issued in the Royal Gazette in February 2011, Mr. Mohan currently chairs a company with a 7,187 hectare economic land concession in Kampot province’s Phnom Bokor National Park. …

 Alex Willemyns
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