While the world looks elsewhere, an increasingly authoritarian government discreetly crushes dissent and tightens its hold. Hun Sen oye? (This essay was first posted on my personal blog last week.)It’s hard to explain to someone who hasn’t experienced it what......more
Isabelle Roughol about Cambodia: October 2009 Archives
Apologies...
... to the people whose comments were neither approved nor acknowledged for weeks. This CMS oddly doesn't notify me of pending comments.And while we're at it, apologies for this blog never really picking up. I had some professional reasons not......more
Press Freedom Index 2009: Cambodia's up 9 spots, which doesn't mean it's getting better
Reporters Sans Frontières (Reporters Without Borders) has released its famed Press Freedom Index for 2009. Cambodia has risen in the rankings by 9 spots, from 126 to 117, but the only explanation for this is that many other countries have sucked even......more
Isabelle Roughol about Cambodia
Isabelle Roughol is a newspaper reporter who was based in Phnom Penh for a year and is now back in...