A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Cambodian journalist are in a 'difficult situation' according to Reporters without Borders
Showing posts with label Cambodia Press Freedom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cambodia Press Freedom. Show all posts
13 February 2014
Cambodia 1,000 Words: Press Freedom
A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Cambodian journalist are in a 'difficult situation' according to Reporters without Borders
12 June 2013
Media Remain Silent as Opposition Party Expelled
It would be some news story, wouldn't it? Television and radio would be all over it. And it would cover the front page of every newspaper for weeks.
But not in Cambodia.
For when all the members of the main opposition, the Cambodian National Rescue Party, were expelled for spurious reasons and their salaries stripped, much of Cambodia's media remained mute.
In fact, of the eight biggest Khmer language newspapers, six papers didn't report the event at all. The other two gave just a brief account.
So with the thin veneer of democracy finally stripped away, Cambodia sits (at least until the next election) as an all-but one-party state.
And Hun Sen and his CPP party, who have most of the media in a strangling grip, are doing their level best to keep the significance of that decision from their people.
8 May 2013
Cambodia's Freedom of the Press Ranking Falls...Again
Depressing and predictable.
That sums up freedom of the press in Cambodia, as, for the sixth year in succession, its international ranking has tumbled.
Citing 'an increase in the number of journalists behind bars...and a significant rise in threats and physical violence against the press,' Freedom House now puts Cambodia in 143rd place in the world rankings and labels the press as 'not free.'
7 May 2012
Cambodia's Press Not Free. Not Even close.
Cambodia retains the same 'Press Freedom' rating as it did in 2011 but falls three spots to an inglorious 144th place. It remains firmly and disgracefully in the 'not-free' camp.
Country Rank 2012
|
Country
|
Rating
|
Status
|
1=
|
Finland
|
10
|
Free
|
1=
|
Sweden
|
10
|
Free
|
1=
|
Norway
|
10
|
Free
|
16
|
New Zealand
|
17
|
Free
|
88=
|
Philippines
|
42
|
Partly Free
|
97=
|
Indonesia
|
49
|
Partly Free
|
132=
|
Thailand
|
60
|
Partly Free
|
144=
|
Cambodia
|
63
|
Not Free
|
144=
|
Malaysia
|
63
|
Not Free
|
150=
|
Singapore
|
67
|
Not Free
|
182=
|
Laos
|
84
|
Not Free
|
182=
|
Vietnam
|
84
|
Not Free
|
185=
|
Burma
|
85
|
Not Free
|
185=
|
China
|
85
|
Not Free
|
197 (last place)
|
North Korea
|
97
|
Not Free
|
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