Here is a little known website offering news on Cambodia, one of the few independent media sites not yet shut down by the sensitive children who run Cambodia...
https://vodenglish.news/
https://vodenglish.news/about-vod/
VOD News Site
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VOD News Site
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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I don't know about independent.
They were founded by CCIM which was founded by CCHR, the human rights organization founded by Kem Sokha.
Kem Sokha is known for saying that the Cambodian genocide was staged by the Vietnamese, and that Tuol Sleng (S21) was a fake prison.
They promote democracy, bluntly put they have close ties to the shattered CNRP opposition party.
I wanted to see who is funding them but they only published 3 annual reports for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Only their 2013 annual report shows a financial breakdown of exactly where their money comes from, and how much:
The 2011 annual report and 2012 annual report shows only a list of donors but no amounts. The 2011 donors include the U.S. Embassy and British Embassy.
They were founded by CCIM which was founded by CCHR, the human rights organization founded by Kem Sokha.
Kem Sokha is known for saying that the Cambodian genocide was staged by the Vietnamese, and that Tuol Sleng (S21) was a fake prison.
They promote democracy, bluntly put they have close ties to the shattered CNRP opposition party.
The Cambodian Center for Independent Media (CCIM) was established in the first quarter of 2007 and duly registered with the Ministry of Interior on June 15, 2007 as a non-governmental organization (NGO).
https://ccimcambodia.org/?page_id=489CCIM began its operation by continuing the production of broadcast of radio programs dubbed Voice of Democracy (VOD), which was started by the Cambodian Center for Human Rights in 2003 until 2007.
I wanted to see who is funding them but they only published 3 annual reports for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Only their 2013 annual report shows a financial breakdown of exactly where their money comes from, and how much:
The 2011 annual report and 2012 annual report shows only a list of donors but no amounts. The 2011 donors include the U.S. Embassy and British Embassy.
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Well, thanks for that information. I guess any such organization must depend on funding from a variety of donors. I just wonder how this one has slipped under the radar after dozens of news organs were shut down in the run up to the last national elections two years ago already. 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. Now everything's secret, and there is no information unless you have close Cambodian friends at the top. And they don't talk outside their circles.
"Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it."
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The U.S. and British embassies don’t care about the free press. It is just a pillar of their much larger “democracy” package they’re promoting. Independence is just a brand name for them and the only investigative journalism they will pay for is the one that serves their agenda.
The “independence” and “press freedom” terms are PR terms used to attract the specific audience that is receptive to the propaganda. The long term goal is that young people will read their paper and it will influence them to support the opposition party, so that they can successfully say that they have converted Cambodia to democracy. In practice it has very little to do about democracy and very much to do with control.
The American tax payers support CNRP projects like CCIM and CCHR for the same reasons they pay and educate opposition politicians. For the same reasons that they funded Lon Nol, and for the same reasons they attempted to overthrow Sihanouk.
A $400,000 annual budget is huge for an organization that, as you say, pretty much nobody has heard about. They are an NGO so I think it is safe to assume that their office rent is either very low or bartered. Their office on Google maps shows a villa that can’t cost more to rent than $1,000 maximum, and you can pay a lot of journalists with the remaining $30,000 a month. Yet, some of Cambodia’s best journalists are still unemployed.
Just imagine what a low-overhead operation like CNE would accomplish with $30,000 a month. I would be surprised if the Cambodia Daily even cost that much to run.
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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.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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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...Lucky Lucan wrote: ↑Fri Aug 14, 2020 9:03 pmI 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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That would explain why DanChurchAid got a mention in a speech by the PM a while back...
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I know, I meant prior to that.
Romantic Cambodia is dead and gone. It's with McKinley in the grave.
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