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Gov’t to amend Press Law to be ‘in line with current reality’
The Ministry of Information is preparing with relevant ministries’ and institutions’ amendments to the Press Law to bring it in line with current reality, while UN human rights monitor for Cambodia Rhona Smith has expressed concerns over press freedom in Cambodia. ...
Voun Dara
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/govt-amend-press-law-be-line-current-reality
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
Cambodian media under threat: report
Media outlets in Cambodia have came under increasing threat over the past year, according to a new report by the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), though the Ministry of Information, responding to a similar recent report, has insisted freedom of expression and the press is ...
Leonie Kijewski and Rinith Taing
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/cambodian-media-under-threat-report
Press freedom ‘collapsed’ in 2017, journalist survey says
The “façade of media freedom” in the Kingdom “collapsed” last year, with journalists reporting a sharp drop in their hopes for independent press, according to the results of a new survey launched yesterday. The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) study surveyed 75 journalists from ...
Rinith Taing
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/press-freedom-collapsed-2017-journalist-survey-says
Cambodia blocks online access to shuttered Cambodia Daily
Cambodia’s government has ordered internet service providers to block online access to The Cambodia Daily newspaper, which closed last year amid a widespread crackdown on media and civil society groups criticizing Prime Minister Hun Sen’s ruling Cambodian People’s Party. ...
Richard Finney
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia/access-02052018171458.html
Panel calls for strong measures against Cambodian government
Politicians and civil society members in New York called on the United Nations to take harsh measures to restore democracy in Cambodia during a panel on Tuesday, even recommending leaving Cambodia’s seat at the UN empty and putting senior ruling party officials on a blacklist. ...
Leonie Kijewski
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national-politics/panel-calls-strong-measures-against-cambodian-government
Election rules for media called a threat and a ‘reminder’
Officials yesterday said government-issued media guidelines for election coverage which prohibit the publication of news that affects the country’s “social stability” were just a “reminder” of existing laws, but some NGOs said the issuing of the code of conduct was an act meant to “stifle ...
Matt Surrusco and Van Roeun
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/election-rules-media-called-threat-reminder-130159/
Civil society groups express concerns over restrictive laws
Civil society groups in Cambodia have expressed concerns over increasing restrictions placed on them since the passage of laws governing NGOs and unions. ...
Ith Sothoeuth
http://www.voacambodia.com/a/civil-society-groups-express-concerns-over-restrictive-laws/3775636.html
Fear hinders independent journalism in Cambodia, survey finds
Fear of government interference, legal repercussions and violence remain impediments to free and independent journalism in Cambodia, according to a survey released on Wednesday in a report by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM). ...
Tej Parikh
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/fear-hinders-independent-journalism-in-cambodia-survey-finds-109992/
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Cambodians generally accept media reports as fact and, despite a surging reliance on the Internet for news, many are still getting information from traditional media outlets aligned with the ruling CPP, according to new research conducted by two freedom-of-information organizations. ...
Matt Blomberg
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/website-names-hidden-hands-behind-the-news-101826/
Exhibit remembers slain journalists, calls for end to ‘impunity’
Im Chanthy was seven months pregnant when her husband was killed three years ago, his body stuffed in the trunk of his Toyota Camry. ...
Olivia Harlow
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/exhibit-remembers-slain-journalists-calls-for-end-to-impunity-98964/
Draft internet law gives new tools to surveillance state
A sub-decree being drafted by the Interior Ministry would give far-reaching powers to the ministry to potentially expand the surveillance of citizens. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/15722/draft-internet-law-gives-new-tools-to-surveillance-state/
Crowdsourcing Cambodia’s online bill of rights
As the government prepares to draft a new law on cybercrime, Internet users are speaking up about which rights they want to see protected. ...
Jonathan Cox
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/14004/crowdsourcing-cambodia---s-online-bill-of-rights/
Cambodians take to the web to make internet law suggestions
Hundreds of Cambodian internet users have made their feelings unknown on their government’s controversial plants to regulate the country’s internet, after a local civil society group invited public comment online. ...
Phorn Bopha
http://www.voacambodia.com/content/cambodians-take-to-the-web-to-make-internet-law-suggestions/2888283.html
Website crowdsources comments on draft ‘Cybercrime’ Law
The Cambodian Center for Independent Media has set up a website for public comment on a contentious draft law to regulate Cambodian cyberspace. The website establishes a “wiki”-like crowd-sourcing platform for comments on the law, even though the public has not been able to see the ...
Phorn Bopha
http://bit.ly/1TIJVKR
CCIM reporter’s case dropped
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has dismissed without any explanation a lawsuit filed by the Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) after one of its reporters was viciously attacked by Daun Penh district security guards in May. Lay Samean, a 27-year-old reporter for CCIM’s Voice of ...
Sen David
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ccim-reporters-case-dropped