I recall reading that she paid $100 or $1000 or some token amount like that.Miguelito wrote:Well their line for the month of August was that it was sold to his daughter. But then, in his letter on September 4th, he said that he'd be taking (not "buying back") all of the assets from the Daily. That's one interesting sales arrangement. I wonder how much it would have been valued at back in April, and what she "paid" -- It could have been a scheme to avoid U.S. Inheritance tax issues (I'm not saying it was, but it wouldn't be surprising).LaudJohn wrote:How do you "sell" an NGO?
You sell something that is profitable. Who would pay for a loss maker?
Ok, he says he sold the assests to his daughter, but are they not the assets that have been paid for or subsidised by foreign tax deductible donations?
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Regarding this current discussion (the closing of the Cambodia Daily), I do not think that anyone is "gleefull" about it. However, there have been a number of unanswered questions, and I believe many people (myself included) are rightfully skeptical about the CD's position.Loogan wrote:Seems some of you are downright gleefull at the impending Dictatorship.
Why no mention of the other 19 news Organizations shut down?
Regarding the other organizations, I suspect many of us just don't know enough about them to make an educated comment, and most of the coverage has been in Khmer.
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That's pretty much it, I was aware of Radio Free Asia (who have been broadcasting in the region for more than 6 decades and are US government funded), and one or two others but they all broadcast their propaganda in Khmer and I haven't used a radio in a long time so don't have much to say about their closure. Here's a good quote about RFA :Miguelito wrote: Regarding the other organizations, I suspect many of us just don't know enough about them to make an educated comment, and most of the coverage has been in Khmer.
Catharin Dalpino wrote:They lean very heavily on reports by and about dissidents in exile. It doesn't sound like reporting about what's going on in a country. Often, it reads like a textbook on democracy, which is fine, but even to an American it's rather propagandistic.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
And another one telling of his Cambodia Daily's heyday.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... odia-daily
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-des ... odia-daily
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For those who dont read Khmer, RFA happily have many stories in English as well:
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/cambodia
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Deborah Krisher-Steele is now disavowing the apology letter she wrote a few days ago, saying it was all in Khmer and she didn't know what it said and she signed it under duress.
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Fake confessions under duress are classic ChiCom tactics.gavinmac wrote:Deborah Krisher-Steele is now disavowing the apology letter she wrote a few days ago, saying it was all in Khmer and she didn't know what it said and she signed it under duress.
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So another interesting development. I received an email from someone (not a poster) who believes that someone has obtained the credit card details of former subscribers to the CD and is now using this information to make fraudulent charges against their visa cards.
He had subscribed for online access for six months back in March, but that was a one off and he didn't believe that they should have stored his cc for future purchases. He has just received an email invoice purportedly on behalf of the CD (with a fake U.S. phone number listed), and his card was charged $50 the same day (today, Monday the 18th).
He is not sure what to think, that it could be someone trying to further discredit the paper or maybe they forgot to turn everything off. Has anyone else that was a subscriber had this happen to them?
He had subscribed for online access for six months back in March, but that was a one off and he didn't believe that they should have stored his cc for future purchases. He has just received an email invoice purportedly on behalf of the CD (with a fake U.S. phone number listed), and his card was charged $50 the same day (today, Monday the 18th).
He is not sure what to think, that it could be someone trying to further discredit the paper or maybe they forgot to turn everything off. Has anyone else that was a subscriber had this happen to them?
Having credit cards available for theft is by itself a PCI-DSS violation. It doesn't matter if it's an ex employee or someone else, if true they fucked up massively.
Tell the sender of the email to contact the FBI. They're going to love this one.
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Tell the sender of the email to contact the FBI. They're going to love this one.
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Like so much that gets posted here (to include everything I've ever read by Alexandra), this is horse shit. Digital subscriptions at the Daily were processed by a company called Stripe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)
We set it up that way so that credit card processing would be secure. Nobody in Cambodia, nobody at the Daily, no one except staff at Stripe would have any access to card numbers, cardholder addresses or PINs.
Could you guys try to be less consistently wrong? Some of you make Fresh News look credible by comparison.
We set it up that way so that credit card processing would be secure. Nobody in Cambodia, nobody at the Daily, no one except staff at Stripe would have any access to card numbers, cardholder addresses or PINs.
Could you guys try to be less consistently wrong? Some of you make Fresh News look credible by comparison.
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CDNext wrote:Like so much that gets posted here (to include everything I've ever read by Alexandra), this is horse shit. Digital subscriptions at the Daily were processed by a company called Stripe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe_(company)
We set it up that way so that credit card processing would be secure. Nobody in Cambodia, nobody at the Daily, no one except staff at Stripe would have any access to card numbers, cardholder addresses or PINs.
Could you guys try to be less consistently wrong? Some of you make Fresh News look credible by comparison.
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Stripe is good, they don't violate PCI-DSS.
I wouldn't put it beyond Khmer staff to mess things up, e.g. going out of their way to handle it via email. Time will tell if more people are affected than the person who emailed Miguelito.
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I wouldn't put it beyond Khmer staff to mess things up, e.g. going out of their way to handle it via email. Time will tell if more people are affected than the person who emailed Miguelito.
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