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CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative said the Cambodian government should not use “flimsy” allegations of fake news to suppress reporting on COVID-19.

The Ministry of Information is preparing to publish 5,000 copies of Cambodia 2021 ahead of the 13th Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM), which Cambodia is hosting in the middle of this year, for distribution to delegates and participants.

Share More than 1,000 cases of fake, objectionable news identified Tue, 19 January 2021 In 2020, the Ministry of Information identified sources of objectionable or illegal material on social media including fake news and disinformation, various incitements, unfair criticism of the nation’s leadership and insults to the King totalling 1,343 cases. The ministry revoked, among others, three media licences of organisations that violated the law in 2020, according to Phos Sovann, director-general of the ministry’s General Department of Information and Broadcasting. At the forum on Internet Sa...

The Union of Journalist Federations of Cambodia (UJFC) intervened to resolve 33 cases last year where complaints were brought against Cambodian journalists, according to a report issued on January 11.

Share Minister of Economy and Finance Aun Pornmoniroth (centre) discusses digital platforms with officials at an inter-ministerial meeting on Monday. Photo supplied TV goes digital by 2023, paving way for 5G Tue, 29 December 2020 The government on December 28 held an inter-ministerial meeting to discuss setting up a digital television platform as part of the Kingdom’s shift away from analogue. Held at the Ministry of Economy and Finance, the meeting discussed the would-be platform operator’s models of management and financing (public, private or mixed) and shutting off analogue signals be...