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Phnom Penh Post Sold

Published on May 14, 2018 by Luke Hunt

Australian miner Bill Clough has ended months of speculation and announced the sale of The Phnom Penh Post – effectively the last bastion of independent journalism in Cambodia – to a Malaysian investor for an undisclosed sum. The sale raised fresh fears over independent journalism in Cambodia, where radio stations and The Cambodian Daily have closed while the opposition Cambodian National Rescue Party (CNRP) has been dissolved and its leaders jailed or fled into exile as Prime Minister Hun Sen looks to consolidate his authority ahead of upcoming elections this year. Clough hinted the current media climate had influenced his decision to sell Post Media Ltd, which includes The Phnom Penh Postand Post Khmer publications, to Sivakumar G, known as....

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The Last Foreign Correspondents

Published on Mar 19, 2018 by Luke Hunt

As Britain handed its cherished Hong Kong back to China in 1997 and Cambodia endured a coup that would bring decades of civil war to an end, American journalist Dan Boylan filed the following.PHNOM PENH  – “Strange … peace kills business,” one reporter said on a recent night at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Cambodia. Sitting alone, he stared into his Angkor beer while the sun sank against the Tonle Sap River outside.Just last summer, as AK-47’s rattled nearby, the club was packed. Reporters from around the world had descended upon Phnom Penh to cover Cambodia’s latest war, a short-lived affair that smashed a short-lived coalition government. With the action came the out-of-town professionals.“Yeah, it was wall to wall then,”....

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Ayu Mandala

Published on Jan 1, 2018 by Luke Hunt

Ayu Mandala was born in Denpasar, September 16, 1980. As a Balinese, her career choices are quite different from those of Balinese women in general, namely audio-visual communication.A job that demands high verbal, physical and intellectual abilities. The passion to develop skills and a career in communication has been cultivated for 17 years, starting with working in radio stations, television stations, the cinema industry.Until finally challenged to combine their abilities together with colleagues in Bali and internationally to develop platforms to be able to introduce the Balinese language so that can be learned easily by a wide audience.One of the media that is still being developed today is BASAbali wiki is a combination of multi-language multi-language reference dictionaries, encyclopedias, and....

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