"At the broadest level, the First Amendment remains an extraordinary gift to the US press, one that many journalists around the world would die to have—and all too often die without." www.cjr.org/the_media_to...

Plainclothes officers arrested a Cambodian journalist who was reporting in Khmer on deforestation in Prey Lang Wildlife Sanctuary. He's previously been cited in Mongabay, and had recently been harassed & assaulted. www.camboja.net/advocacy/art...

While Musk, who is apparently steering the US government, is calling for the complete dissolution of USAID, Cambodian demining experts and NGOs in particular are feeling the effect of the funding freeze. There will probably be more impacts in the future asia.nikkei.com/Economy/U.S....

Cambodian dissidents who fled to Thailand are living "like crabs or frogs..in a cave", hiding out of concern after a former opposition party official was shot in Bangkok. asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Int...

Maybe USAID funds getting frozen seems like nothing to many of you, but over here in Cambodia, it means jobs are frozen and people are just stuck - some in critical conditions. Let me give you an example from just ONE country (it's way beyond just 🇰🇭) cambodianess.com/article/trum...

Nearly 60 South Asian workers pushed through the gates of O'Smach Resort, a casino owned by the recently-sanctioned Cambodian tycoon Ly Yong Phat. Interestingly, they reportedly said they left bc they wanted to work in Poipet, a more populous border town ~200km away. www.rfa.org/english/camb...

Lim Kimya, a former Cambodian opposition MP was shot & killed in Bangkok on Oct. 7, shortly after arriving from Siem Reap. This comes after several dissidents have been deported from Thailand, raising new alarms about the safety of fleeing to the country www.rfa.org/english/camb...

Laos' Attapeu province is experiencing breakneck deforestation to make way for major Chinese banana and durian farms www.mekongeye.com/2024/12/16/f...

An online journalist was fatally shot last week in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Even though you may never have read his reports, pay attention to these cases. It's always local language journos who suffer first. opc-cambodia.org/blog/2024/12...

CAMBODIA: Cambodia blocks access to 16 crypto exchange websites, incl. Binance & Coinbase, but not their apps. Regulation ordering blocking of 102 websites included online gaming sites, writes @daniellek-o.bsky.social. asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Cr...