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22 attacks on journalists in Cambodia
A report by the Club of Cambodian Journalists (CCJ) catalogues a series of 22 attacks against journalists in the south-east Asian country between 2008-2009. In addition the report slates unethical practices among journalists including bribery and corruption and those pretending to be journalists who are not,The press release urges the...more
Gunnar Bergstrom says sorry
Gunnar Bergstrom reported from Khmer Rouge run Cambodia as a young reporter in 1978. He spent fourteen days in Democratic Kampuchea and filed glowing reports. Seven months after he returned to Sweden he retracted what had originally reported. This week, some thirty years later, he's back in Cambodia to...more
FBI investigate death of Cambodian journalist
Two FBI agents arrived in Cambodia this week to help investigate the killing in July of local journalist Khim Sambo and his son. Khim was gunned down in the streets of the Cambodia capital in July. The Cambodian Ministry of the Interior reportely invited the duo to contribute in a...more
Cambodia journalist gunned down
Magnum snapper John Vink writes about going home to Phnom Penh to discover Khem Sambo, a local journalist, and his son were gunned down in the street, Today the cremation ceremony took place at the Toul Tompoung pagoda. Sambo is the 12th journalist killed in Cambodia since 1993. link...more
Jon Swain remembers Dith Pran
Sunday Times war reporter Jon Swain remembers Dith Pran, the man who saved his life in Cambodia in 1975 and who died last week, I first met Pran in 1972. Although his loyalty was always to Schanberg, he was ready to give help and advice to me and all the...more
Photojournalist Dith Pran dies
The photojournalist Dith Pran died last night in a New Jersey hospital. Pran first became known to the wider world in 1980 when the New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg published his book The Death and Life of Dith Pran. The book was later made into the film The...more
In Vietnam we looked like this...
Googling around for a picture of Sydney Schanberg for the previous post I discover this interesting wee site consisting of polaroid portraits of foreign correspondents and others who passed through the AP bureau in Saigon during the Vietnam war. Neal Ulevich has compiled the images here including the one...more
Cambodian house moves
Following on from the Magnum love of yesterday, Magnum's Cambodia-based John Vink writes an oddly third person blog - hey, maybe he doesn't write it all. It's misleading or just plain odd, but... the content should be worth a butcher's. Magnum are calling it the Khmer Chronicles, Except for a...more
Khmer Fried Chicken
In our global search for the cutting culinary edge and following on from the latest in Khartoum, we discover - courtesy of Phnomenon - that the devil's spawn American fastfood chain KFC is coming to Cambodia and it's coming soon, QSR Brands Bhd is expanding its restaurant business under...more
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