By Keo Nimol
Radio Free Asia
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
On 14 February, a high ranking TVK official said that the station will broadcast live the preliminary results of the July 2008 election.
Kim Kunavath, TVK director, said during a conference held at the ministry of information that: “I want to inform that TVK is preparing to broadcast live the preliminary results of the 27 July 2008 election, starting from 06:00 PM until the next morning. This broadcast will be supervised by the NEC. This task … demands that a working group study clearly about the means to achieve it.”
Regarding this live broadcast of the preliminary election results, Tep Nytha, the NEC secretary-general, said that this is a joint plan between the NEC and TVK.
Tep Nytha said: “In the evening, following the election, after the vote counting is done, there will be posting of the election results along election offices, and the NEC plans to have the election polls office, the Commune Election Committee, and the Provincial Election Committee to send these results to the NEC, we then cooperate with TVK to broadcast them during that evening, if not all of them, at least the majority of results. These will be preliminary results while waiting for the temporary results.”
SRP MP Son Chhay said: “The quick broadcast of the results is a good thing also, but it must be done with transparency. We want to see a quick tally of the results.”
According to the ministry of information yearly report, in 2007, Phnom Penh city has 7 TV stations, and there are 7 TV stations along the provinces, in addition there are 21 relay stations broadcasting Phnom Penh TV stations.
As for radio stations, Phnom Penh has 23 station, and there are 14 station in the provinces. There are 25 relay radio stations broadcasting Phnom Penh stations.
There altogether 327 national newspapers, 36 bulletins, and 129 magazines published. There are 27 foreign news agencies operating in Cambodia, and there are also 11 foreign news and TV agencies.
Kim Kunavath, TVK director, said during a conference held at the ministry of information that: “I want to inform that TVK is preparing to broadcast live the preliminary results of the 27 July 2008 election, starting from 06:00 PM until the next morning. This broadcast will be supervised by the NEC. This task … demands that a working group study clearly about the means to achieve it.”
Regarding this live broadcast of the preliminary election results, Tep Nytha, the NEC secretary-general, said that this is a joint plan between the NEC and TVK.
Tep Nytha said: “In the evening, following the election, after the vote counting is done, there will be posting of the election results along election offices, and the NEC plans to have the election polls office, the Commune Election Committee, and the Provincial Election Committee to send these results to the NEC, we then cooperate with TVK to broadcast them during that evening, if not all of them, at least the majority of results. These will be preliminary results while waiting for the temporary results.”
SRP MP Son Chhay said: “The quick broadcast of the results is a good thing also, but it must be done with transparency. We want to see a quick tally of the results.”
According to the ministry of information yearly report, in 2007, Phnom Penh city has 7 TV stations, and there are 7 TV stations along the provinces, in addition there are 21 relay stations broadcasting Phnom Penh TV stations.
As for radio stations, Phnom Penh has 23 station, and there are 14 station in the provinces. There are 25 relay radio stations broadcasting Phnom Penh stations.
There altogether 327 national newspapers, 36 bulletins, and 129 magazines published. There are 27 foreign news agencies operating in Cambodia, and there are also 11 foreign news and TV agencies.
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in the US, media is very powerful liason between the general public and gov't. it ought to be the same in cambodia. expose the bad practices in gov't so the public can understand what is going on better. i mean someone got to do it, and there's no better organization than the media.
no gov't on the planet can help all its people, especially through nuke and cranny. instead of trying to have everybody this way, why not teach them all how to help themselves and not to depend so much on anyone but themselves. cambodia is not a big welfare state. its poor people ought to be taught to help themselves more my being innovative, diversify their agriculture to planting corns, vegetables, fruits, and other commodities else there than to just rely solely on rice, rice, rice, and more rice. i would prefer teaching them to help themselves over to keep handing out freebies. cambodia has a saying like this: education follow you everywhere and no one can steal your knowledge, whereas material stuff can come and go. so please practice this proverb; can never go wrong.
sorry, the comments above belongs to the thread above this one, my mistake. thanks
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