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Cambodia, China to co-organize Spring Festival Night Show in Phnom Penh
The state-owned National Television of Cambodia (TVK) and China’s Yunnan TV station will jointly organized the 2015 Spring Festival Night Show on Feb. 10 in Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, TVK’s director-general Kem Gunawadh said Monday. ...
The Cambodia Herald News Staff
http://www.thecambodiaherald.com/cambodia/cambodia-china-to-co-organize-spring-festival-night-show-in-phnom-penh-8140
Water Fest eyes foreign visitors
Expecting thousands of international tourists to travel to Phnom Penh for the first Water Festival held since 2010, the National Committee for Organizing National and International Festivals plans to set up several services catering specifically to foreigners. ...
Sean Teehan
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-fest-eyes-foreign-visitors
Gunawadh back as TVK director eleven days after resignation
Kem Gunawadh was reinstated as director-general of state broadcaster TVK on Wednesday, less than two weeks after his highly publicized resignation for failing to live broadcast the annual Royal Plowing Ceremony, according to a statement signed by Information Minister Khieu Kanharith. Acting Director-General Pang Nath denied ...
Saing Soenthrith
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/gunawadh-back-as-tvk-director-eleven-days-after-resignation-59948/
TVK boss’ departure draws further concern
Media watchdogs on Wednesday expressed concern that the resignation on Saturday of Kem Gunawadh, long-serving director-general of state broadcaster TVK, was due to the station’s airing of an opposition campaign spot showing violent government protest repressions. In a statement, the Cambodian Center for Independent Media and ...
Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tvk-boss-departure-draws-further-concern-59348/
TVK director resigns, apparently in response to gov’t criticism
Kem Gunawadh, the long-serving director-general of TVK who helped set up the state broadcaster in 1983, resigned abruptly on Saturday in what his successor said was a reaction to government criticism over his decision not to broadcast live that morning’s annual Royal Plowing Ceremony. The resignation ...
Phann Ana and Simon Henderson
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tvk-director-resigns-apparently-in-response-to-govt-criticism-58980/
Calm, mostly, prevails
Although International Human Rights Day ended in the forceful eviction of protesters from outside the US embassy last night, monks and their supporters who spent days marching to the capital met with no opposition in the morning as they defied a ban on marching to ...
Post Staff
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/calm-mostly-prevails
Cambodian, Thai state-owned broadcasters ink cooperation deal
The National Television of Cambodia and the Mass Communication Organization of Thailand (MCOT) on Tuesday signed a television cooperation agreement, focusing on the exchange of TV programs and information. The deal was inked between director general of the National Television of Cambodia Kem Gunawadh and MCOT’s ...
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-05/21/c_132398350.htm