Writing in Asia Times last year about the state of Cambodia’s media (“A bad day all around for Cambodian media,” published July 2019), I opined: “If the relationship of a journalist to politicians is supposed to be that of a dog to lampposts, as one saying goes, or either at their throat or at their feet, according to another, then Cambodia’s media today are retentive and supine.”
Fitting this summation perfectly is Khmer Times, an English-language daily that heaps praise on Cambodia’s autocratic ruling party and scorn on the party’s critics, and has a long history in the not-so-subtle art of plagiarism. (It’s still amusing that this newspaper is owned by a parent company called Virtus Media.)
Just last week, its worn-down “Ctrl-C” and “Ctrl-V” buttons were harassed again when the newspaper reprinted, word by word and without proper citation, an article that was published the previous day in the German news outlet DW, written by Ate Hoekstra, with additional reporting by Yon Sineat. (Try spotting the difference between the original and reprint.)
After publication of an earlier version of this article, Asia Times was told that Khmer Times has an agreement to exchange articles with DW, but it is uncertain about how resourced articles should be cited........ More:
https://asiatimes.com/2020/05/why-wont- ... -articles/
Khmer Times Continues to Steal Stories
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Oh, yeah. Like they have that contra deal. Nah. The Times is lying. They just lifted it whole and thought the public would be too stupid to notice.
Has he been permanently banned from entering the Philippines yet?
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