PHNOM PENH, May 20, 2008 (Xinhua) - The Burma Daily still managed to be published here Tuesday as "a supplement" to Cambodia's leading English-Khmer language newspaper the Cambodian Daily, after the police confiscated its second issue marketed Monday.
"The Burma Daily is a supplement, also on the web at www. burmadaily.org, sponsored by the Adam Lincoln Steele Foundation," said a notification on the third issue of the paper.
"The (New York-based) Adam Lincoln Steele Foundation is dedicated to developing a free and responsible press in countries that do not enjoy a free press," it added.
"The Burma Daily has no political agenda. It is designed to introduce to the Burmese people what a free and responsible newspaper looks like," another English-Khmer language newspaper the Mekong Times Tuesday quoted Bernard Krisher, publisher of the Burma Daily and the Cambodian Daily, as saying.
Earlier Monday, he vowed to keep on publishing the Burma Daily, as a supplement but not a new newspaper.
The credits on both papers showed that they were published by the same group of staff members.
The first issue of Burma Daily hit the market on Friday, without causing obvious official crackdown. The four-page black- white tabloid was folded inside the Cambodian Daily.
However, when the second issue appeared Monday, it incurred immediate ban. Police tried to confiscate all the copies within its distribution areas.
Government spokesman and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said that the Burma Daily was published without permission, so its publication and distribution must be terminated.
"Before we confiscate the newspaper, we informed the Cambodian Daily, which (first) published the Burma Daily on Friday. Bernard Krisher looks down on Cambodian law," the Mekong Times Tuesday quoted the minister as saying.
"There is an Australian company which owns the (English-language) Phnom Penh Post, published a newspaper in Myanmar, so he wants to compete with the Phnom Penh Post," he said.
"Perhaps he wants to seek money from U.S.-based organizations which oppose the Myanmar government to guarantee his income," he added.
The Cambodian government used to adhere to the principle of freedom of expression, but publisher has to acquire permission from the Information Ministry, before starting to print any new newspaper.
"The Burma Daily is a supplement, also on the web at www. burmadaily.org, sponsored by the Adam Lincoln Steele Foundation," said a notification on the third issue of the paper.
"The (New York-based) Adam Lincoln Steele Foundation is dedicated to developing a free and responsible press in countries that do not enjoy a free press," it added.
"The Burma Daily has no political agenda. It is designed to introduce to the Burmese people what a free and responsible newspaper looks like," another English-Khmer language newspaper the Mekong Times Tuesday quoted Bernard Krisher, publisher of the Burma Daily and the Cambodian Daily, as saying.
Earlier Monday, he vowed to keep on publishing the Burma Daily, as a supplement but not a new newspaper.
The credits on both papers showed that they were published by the same group of staff members.
The first issue of Burma Daily hit the market on Friday, without causing obvious official crackdown. The four-page black- white tabloid was folded inside the Cambodian Daily.
However, when the second issue appeared Monday, it incurred immediate ban. Police tried to confiscate all the copies within its distribution areas.
Government spokesman and Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said that the Burma Daily was published without permission, so its publication and distribution must be terminated.
"Before we confiscate the newspaper, we informed the Cambodian Daily, which (first) published the Burma Daily on Friday. Bernard Krisher looks down on Cambodian law," the Mekong Times Tuesday quoted the minister as saying.
"There is an Australian company which owns the (English-language) Phnom Penh Post, published a newspaper in Myanmar, so he wants to compete with the Phnom Penh Post," he said.
"Perhaps he wants to seek money from U.S.-based organizations which oppose the Myanmar government to guarantee his income," he added.
The Cambodian government used to adhere to the principle of freedom of expression, but publisher has to acquire permission from the Information Ministry, before starting to print any new newspaper.
3 comments:
What a Cambodia dictatorship regime!!
Those are the orders of ah traitor Hun Sen.
Down and out ! ah Hun Sen, a third-year- elementary-school- educated Prime Minister with 28 years of holding power, is the Criminal against humanity in Cambodia and is a former Khmer Rouge soldier in Khmer Rouge Regime, from CPP (Communist Pro youn Party)
Cambodia has enough on it's plate. Why should Cambodia Daily insert this "Burma Daily" here when it has nothing to do with anything that concerns Cambodia. Certainly the paper can run articles about conditions in Burma and editorials if it wants. The reaction by the Roysl Government is equally as distasteful and unnessary.
well, cambodian people aren't interested in reading about depressing burma issue; why use cambodia as a base or place to publish you "burma supplement", mr publisher? why cambodia? why don't you use the bangcock post or something else along that line, why have to be cambodia is what i don't understand!
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