Sreynat Sarum

Published on Mar 13, 2023 by Luke Hunt

Sreynat Sarum is a Cambodian journalist, fixer and videographer who has worked on stories for Voice of America, The Diplomat and UCA News. Sreynat studied journalism through programs sponsored by non-governmental organizations including Dan Church Aid and Newsroom Cambodia. She has also worked for Khmernas and maintained a relationship with Studio Bomborra while working as a fixer for overseas news outlets. This includes television, radio and the written word..

Dos and Don'ts

Published on Mar 12, 2023 by Luke Hunt

The  closure of the independent news outlet Voice of Democracy served as a warning for those who fail to toe the government line. The Cambodian government issues its recommendations regarding what it expects from journalists. Click here and read more from The Diplomat. .

Heydays with Hayes

Published on Jul 7, 2022 by Luke Hunt

Thirty years ago Michael Hayes arrived in Cambodia with his life savings of about US$50,000 and his then-wife Kathleen just as the United Nations began pouring into the Southeast Asian nation to oversee elections and hopefully end decades of war. Luke Hunt writes for the Phnom Penh Post.Armed with a royal seal from King Norodom Sihanouk Hayes founded the Phnom Penh Post from scratch, and for the next 16 years was responsible for a newspaper that enjoyed a reputation for telling the truth while maintaining a sympathetic ear for this country’s plight and its tragic history.But this reputation came at a price. Several Khmer contemporaries were assassinated and there were many sleepless nights from the top floor of his home....

Launch of Ashes from Annam

Published on Feb 20, 2022 by Luke Hunt

The much anticipated Ashes from Annam, written by Thierry de Roland Peel was launched on Feb 20. at Raffles Le Royale in Phnom Penh. About 150 guest arrived as Peel delivered a robust speech about his family's life and tragedies towards the end of World War II in Saigon. And of course the adventures of the family dog Mephisto..

A Podcast with Lindsay Murdoch AOM

Published on Jul 24, 2021 by Luke Hunt

Australian correspondent Lindsay Murdoch has been awarded an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) on this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to journalism after spending most of his five decades in journalism covering upheavals across Southeast Asia.Murdoch began his career working on the Warragul Guardian in southeast Australia in 1968 and joined The Age in Melbourne in 1977 as a police reporter. Starting from the mid-1980s, spent he spent 25 years as a foreign correspondent throughout Asia for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.Murdoch is also a veteran of the wars in Iraq, was among the first journalists to reach Banda Aceh, Indonesia after the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004, and covered the carnage in East Timor in....