by Orichá » Fri Aug 14, 2020 10:50 pm
Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:03 pm
Orichá wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 5:35 pm
I really miss the
Cambodia Daily and its in-depth reports on real world events, especially the corruption involved with land grabs/sales, horse trading, and crooked business ventures.
I don't remember the Daily like that. It was always very biased and only had a couple of pages covering events in Cambodia, the rest was news feeds they stole under the guise of being a non-profit. They did of course have some fantastic writers and articles over the years but the Phnom Penh Post was always way ahead in quality, even if it was only bi-monthly for most of its time.
Biased? I read the
Daily a lot about 2015, 2016 and almost every second day they had long and very detailed full page stories about local news and crooks and scandals: the drained Boeung Kak lake fiasco in PP; the boss's daughter's land-grabbing and her personal army to squash protests; the indigenous protests against the hydro dam flooding in Koh Rong province. Many other stories. They also reported every rich drunk guy running down poor moto riders, and followed up, usually within a week, about how the rich man paid off the poor, and no trial or jailing ever took place. By comparison, the newcomers,
CNE and the
Khmer Times, are nothing... Can you imagine them running a detailed analysis about how Kem Ley was shot and how the shooter was hired by the military? The
Daily had a very long and salacious article about that scandal. No more possible, such current stories. And don't forget, the
Phnom Penh Post got sold to a Malaysian close to the family, and now it's been sold on to the Chinese, if I am not mistaken...
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I really miss the [i]Cambodia Daily[/i] and its in-depth reports on real world events, especially the corruption involved with land grabs/sales, horse trading, and crooked business ventures.
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I don't remember the Daily like that. It was always very biased and only had a couple of pages covering events in Cambodia, the rest was news feeds they stole under the guise of being a non-profit. They did of course have some fantastic writers and articles over the years but the Phnom Penh Post was always way ahead in quality, even if it was only bi-monthly for most of its time.
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Biased? I read the [i]Daily[/i] a lot about 2015, 2016 and almost every second day they had long and very detailed full page stories about local news and crooks and scandals: the drained Boeung Kak lake fiasco in PP; the boss's daughter's land-grabbing and her personal army to squash protests; the indigenous protests against the hydro dam flooding in Koh Rong province. Many other stories. They also reported every rich drunk guy running down poor moto riders, and followed up, usually within a week, about how the rich man paid off the poor, and no trial or jailing ever took place. By comparison, the newcomers, [i]CNE[/i] and the [i]Khmer Times,[/i] are nothing... Can you imagine them running a detailed analysis about how Kem Ley was shot and how the shooter was hired by the military? The [i]Daily[/i] had a very long and salacious article about that scandal. No more possible, such current stories. And don't forget, the [i]Phnom Penh Post [/i]got sold to a Malaysian close to the family, and now it's been sold on to the Chinese, if I am not mistaken...