Media and Press Freedom in the Kingdom

11/25/20 • 32 min

Anakut - The podcast about Cambodia's future

This week on Anakut, hosts Meng and Andrew wrap up the first season with a slightly meta -topic: The Cambodian media landscape as it stands today. This is a big topic that covers everything from the country’s falling press freedom ranking to the future of mobile, social information platforms, and so we invited on more guests than ever before. Click to listen to our conversation with reporter Phorn Bopha, media director Ith Sothoeuth from the Cambodia Center of Independent Media and Nov Povleakhena, lead editor of Focus: Ready for Tomorrow, a Khmer language outlet aimed at young Cambodians.

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Democracy in Cambodia and ASEAN

This week, it’s all about democracy. We sat down with Pech Pisey, executive director from Transparency International Cambodia (TI) about the state of play here in Cambodia. From our conversation Pisey shared with us that Cambodia today does not practice democracy in a meaningful way. We spoke at length about the restriction of civil society, including the repression of protesters escalated since the July arrest of unionist Rong Chhun.

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