DVD shops close before raid
A handful of stores in Phnom Penh’s City Mall closed up shop yesterday morning, draping large curtains over their storefronts rather than face an impending police raid on businesses allegedly selling pirated movies there, police and other vendors said. The aborted raid came less than two weeks after Prime Minister Hun Sen issued a directive ordering the formation of an inter-ministerial committee – to be led by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts – to curb the distribution of illegal pornography and unlicensed copies of movies, according to a copy of the directive obtained yesterday. … Nareth Ung, president of the Motion Picture Association of Cambodia – a trade body representing licensed movie distributors Westec and Sabay – said he filed the complaint against the six City Mall vendors not simply because they were selling bootlegged DVDs, but also because they were also allegedly distributors of pirated copies to other vendors. …
Sen David and Stuart White
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