Saturday, November 06, 2010

Question to RFA regarding one of its reporters

KI-Media Note: Dear Readers, a reader by the name of Vuthy forwarded to us the following email question which he submitted to Mr. Kem Sos of RFA Khmer Service. While we cannot verify Mr. Vuthy's claim one way or another, we are reproducing his question with some minor edits below for your information. Thank you!
Dear Mr. Kem Sos,

Is it true that Radio Free Asia spends American taxpayers money to hire CPP official to work for it? According to the document attached here [see below], it says Mr. Pon Bunsong who uses the airname on Radio Free Asia radio as Mondul Keo was working for the Phnom Penh city information office and, remarkably, he [also] speaks Vietnamese. Does Radio Free Asia has a policy of hiring government official to work for it?

Hoping to hear an explanation [on this issue].

Thanks,

Vuthy

In respect to the privacy of Mr. Pon Bunsong's children, KI-Media has blacked out their names and date of birth.
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44 comments:

Anonymous said...

Fire that mother fuckers Kim Sos he's the fuck CPP ass kisser that old fat ulgies ass. Why he hire the CPP Youn people to work on Radio free Asian for. Ah joymaray Kim Sos you're the idiots old dirty man.

Anonymous said...

one way to find out is to send your question to amrican embassy in phnom phen. any suppicious activity of RFA also can forward to the AMERICAN embasy because they are the money bag of RFA. RFA must be independent.

Anonymous said...

Oh, I know him. His real name is Hourt Vuthy, RFA senior editor of Khmer Service. He leaks the fact of document for his chance to kick out Mr. Kem Sos. His supporter and his adviser is Mr. Sam Poly, alas Pov Pon-Lok, RFA Khmer Service deputy director. He is the man that could bring this document to Hout Vuthy. I so sad to hear the bad image of Mr. Kem Sos for his last life.

Anonymous said...

This paper proves that he prefers to work for RFA than for Cambodian Information minister.

Anonymous said...

For God's sake. He just works in a job he likes and that feeds his family. The person who raised this up is evil. A lot of people in Cambodia are so-called 'gov't servants', but of course they work elsewhere to feed themselves. Please respect his life!!!

Anonymous said...

For God's sake. Koem Sos should help many other government servants that have low salaries. They need you to help and me too, I am a poor teacher but I don't speak Vietnam. Can you bring them all on board.

Anonymous said...

4:35PM and 4:51PM

You have no idea about the charter and Policy involved with RFA with American Broadcasting corporation principle. This is not RCG ministry nor RCG financial funding, therefore Kem Sos will be totally responsible for all breaching decisions he has made. Seat back and relax to listen and follow facts and findings before jumping in to make such comments.
Do not copy Hun Sen CPP's pattern of work ethic.

Anonymous said...

RFA should not fire Sam Borin because he is a CPP like Kim Sah too.

Anonymous said...

5:01pm- Is make comments on this post a CPP's pattern of work ethic? You already made a comment here, didn't you? Fuck you!

Anonymous said...

5:09 PM
The language you use , people will put you in that category .

Anonymous said...

Lok Pon Bun Song is innocent of the war between Hout Vuthy, Sam Poly and Kem Sos.

Anonymous said...

I think he is vietnamese.he do look vietnamese. might be this is a set up by hanoi to shut up RFA.

Anonymous said...

Racism is the problem. The main issue is the RFA management.

Anonymous said...

LONG LIVE VIET NAM...

KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
Province of Viet Nam

Nation Religion KING..

1. You idiot khmer have no nation it is all belong to vietnam now.. we run your country and our brothers and sisters are all over your country and in every level of government.

2. You have no religion becuase look at you even your own country to betrayed look at Hun SEn- CPPP we control thme -- how can they have religion becuase soon will be vietnam province

3. KING what KING-- he can not beg us to keep him there-- so he have to bring his mother which she work for our interested with hun sen and cpp.. then his father to beg us for keep him...

what a loser race. you all should dies and wishes you will never born.. better born as vietnamese you might be a little smarter and maybe love your own kind ans country better..

LONG LIVE VIET NAM.

more money from china is good for our vietnamese brothers and sisters
that hold every level of officials in cambodia that control cambodia.. will use this money to further control cambodia... it is us that the king of cambodia to to beg us the viet nam to keep him there.. good work hun sen-cpp.now we have more money from china..

now we have more money we will build all of you a cage

Anonymous said...

What a freak!

I am a Vietnamese, don't lump us with the like of you.

I wonder whether you are really a Vietnamese. You might be one but an uneducated asshole...

For those idiotic Khmers, especially those live in US, you always complaint about Vietnamese living in Cambodia! we just want to live in a better place like you assholes fled your country because of war. Is there something wrong with that?

What a group of selfish bastard.

Anonymous said...

7:13 PM I don't wanna DIE!

Anonymous said...

I knew Bun Song for more than 10ys. I know he is innocent. Kim Sos, he was the one hire him to be the spy of CPP in RFA. Kim Sos is the one to responsible of things going on here.

Anonymous said...

I am not saying who am I. But I also knew Kim Sous for longer than anyone else. Yes, he definitely did that, he told me. But he did on purpose. Just like all of you, you better find way to survive and get rich, and this is the only reason for Kim Sous to do so. Will you do that?

Anonymous said...

For me I am dare not to hide myself. I am Vuthy. The reason why Kim Sous recruited me back that's because he knew me quite well that I knew the secrets about him. Is this enough? You guy stop talking about this!!!

Anonymous said...

Please don't think negative to Kim Sos. He is old and may not live long. And I, therefore, kindly request you guy stop talking about him. Let him find his way to peace.

Anonymous said...

The most shameful for RFA is that they are still hiring stupid people like Kim Sos, Vuthy and Bun Song. They are all just CPP spies.

Anonymous said...

Since the day Kim Sos is charge of the RFA Khmer, the radio has been sold to the CPP and the Vietcongs. Kim Sos is the Vietcongs' man to destroy the free world.

We have to petition the US government to remove Kim Sos, the dictator Hun Sen's and Vietcongs' sympathizer. Kim Sos works for the oppressors and not the oppressed.

KHMER Angkor.

Anonymous said...

I don't know Kem Sos personally, from what I know him via reading his small English-Khmer dictionary, I can tell that he Kem Sos is one of the Khmer Rouge.

Anonymous said...

Hanoi killed Muslim and took Champa.
Hanoi killed Khmer Krom and has controlled.
That is Viet’s nature.
Down Vietnamese expansionism!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Muslim wakes up then unites to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!
All Muslim wakes up then unites to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Muslim wakes up then unites to take CHAMPA back!
Vietnam will be wiped out from the map!!
All Muslim wakes up then unites to take CHAMPA back!\

LONG LIVE CHAMPA !
LONG LIVE KHMER EMPIRE !

Anonymous said...

Dear All media, We know media is the channel to provide educate to peoples. Some new are 80 percent negative, If we represent SRP please use all forum like a friendly and reliable news, We Should avoid the boiler room environment in all media.
Please focus on cold and pleasure not magnet giant of garbage, that will heart up bad temper. We need to feed our viewer brain with Jewel not Garbage. Thank you

Anonymous said...

a lot of time too, khmer krom individuals were labeled as viet/youn by khmer in cambodia. so, even though they are khmer, but speak with viet accent, they are considered by khmers in cambodia to be viet/youn. sad reality for khmer krom who did not learn to speak better or fluent khmer language. shame for being afraid to be khmer! they should be proud to be khmer, not ashame, you know!

Anonymous said...

If you ask Kem Sos you will get Mr. Sos opinion but if you ask who incharge RFA to find out you will get the right answer.

Anonymous said...

Mr Vuthy,
Why not to spend the American taxpayers money for a good thing.
You have nothing to do and are not happy, because you don't get the job at RFA.

ជនពាល said...

លោកប៉ុនប៊ុនសុង ចេះភាសាយួន គឺជារឿងដ៏ល្អទៅវិញទេ ព្រោះថាតាមវិជ្ជាជីវះ ជាអ្នកសារព័ត៌មាន គឺគេទាមទារអោយចេះ ភាសាប្រទេសជិតខាងអោយបានស្ទាត់ជំនាញ ទើបមានប្រយោជន៏ ។ ចេះត្រឹមតែអង់គ្លេសមួយមុខ គឺបានធ្វើត្រឹមតែបោយគេប៉ុណ្ណោះ !
វិទ្យុអាស៊ីសេរី ជាវិទ្យុមួយដ៏អាព្យាក្រិតតែមួយគាត់​ដែលផ្សព្វផ្សាយនៅកម្ពុជា ។ អ្វីដែលគួរអោយស្ដាយនោះគឺ វិទ្យុRFI
ព្រោះថាចាងហ្វាងវិទ្យុនេះ ឧស្សាហ៍ត្រូវលោកខៀវ កាញារិទ្ធហៅអោយទៅស៊ីផឹកជាមួយជាញឹកញយដង!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

Saturday, November 06, 2010
In the US, a journalist is fired for donating to a political party ... in Cambodia, most journalists must work for the ruling CPP party or else...

Keith Olbermann, host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, has been suspended indefinitely by MSNBC. Photograph: Fred Prouser/Reuters
Friday 5 November 2010
Ewen MacAskill in Washington
guardian.co.uk

A prominent US television anchorman, Keith Olbermann, was suspended today for making donations to three Democratic candidates in this week's midterm elections, in breach of company rules.

US journalistic ethics are extremely strict, barring media employees from donating to political parties or any other political involvement that might cause a conflict of interest.

Although Rupert Murdoch contributed $2m (£1.23m) to the Republicans and commentators from his Fox News network also made donations, papers such as the New York Times, National Public Radio and television channels such as CNN and MSNBC seek to maintain strict neutrality.


Olbermann, host of Countdown with Keith Olbermann, made contributions to two Democrats standing in Arizona and the Democrat Jack Conway, fighting for a place in the US Senate in Kentucky against the Republican Rand Paul, a Tea Party favourite.

Olbermann confirmed in a statement to the Politico website that he had given each of the candidates $2,400, the legal maximum for donations.

The MSNBC president, Phil Griffin, said in a statement: "I became aware of Keith's political contributions late last night. Mindful of NBC news policy and standards, I have suspended him indefinitely without pay." Olbermann has a contract with MSNBC until 2012.

MSNBC has positioned itself in recent years as a liberal counterweight to the rightwing Fox News, with journalists such as Olbermann outspoken in support of Obama and the Democrats. But it still wants to be seen as adhering to journalistic standards of objectivity, and has been criticising Murdoch over his donations.

Olbermann contributed to one of the Arizona candidates, Raúl Grijalva, on the same day that the Democrat appeared on his Countdown show.

In his statement, Olbermann said: "One week ago, on the night of Thursday 28 October 2010, after a discussion with a friend about the state of politics in Arizona, I donated $2,400 each to the re-election campaigns of Democratic representatives Raul Grijalva and Gabrielle Giffords. I also donated the same amount to the campaign of Democratic senatorial candidate Jack Conway in Kentucky."

He added: "I did not privately or publicly encourage anyone else to donate to these campaigns, nor to any others in this election or any previous ones, nor have I previously donated to any political campaign at any level."

The Fox News commentator Sean Hannity, according to the Salon website, gave $5,000 to a political committee that supported Michele Bachmann, a Republican congresswoman and Tea Party favourite. But Fox, unlike MSNBC, sees no conflict of interest.

In a sign of the strict neutrality the US media normally applies, the former editor of the Washington Post, Len Downie, famously did not even vote. Another, more recent example was a ban by NPR on staff – other than those covering the event – attending Jon Stewart's rally on the Washington Mall last weekend.

Anonymous said...

I have sent all the complete docs about Bun Song to RFA HQ for timely action. But I just can't imagine why the professional journalists like them denied the truth. Are you working just for the money for to seek freedom and truth for your world?

Anonymous said...

The fact is that Kem Sos, Vuthy and Bun Song are all CCP spies. I can't believe why many people still listen to RFA. I was the fan of RFA for more than 20 years, but not now. I knew what is right and wrong.

A simple to make sure my assumption is correct. Ok, Let's compare the news from past 5-10 years and now? Can you differentiate?

No more report saying the truth which against the Government. Just a "YES" report.

Anonymous said...

Dear All:

May I sum up now. RFA has to make the right decision about Kem Sos, Vuthy and Bun Song case. I am not threatening, you if you don't yr institution will be getting worse and worse as we will move on to all media and the US parliamentarians.

Anonymous said...

Speak Vietnam and being Vietnamese are different. Sorry all Vietnamese friends. I just want to mention that Bun Song he can't be a spy of VN, CPP and work for RFA. It is not a right place for him. Too dangerous.
I worry about hims only.

Anonymous said...

all Sam rainsy associate are poor and garbage behavior, It reflect that Ransy himself is street wild made man. Some of those in KI media spent a lot energy for many years on garbage negative thing. most of you live in garbage I feel pity to your wife. You got well educate in civilize country but your words, your brain and your work are like man just walk 20 meters away from jungle. Rainsy if you win all Khmer suffer.

Anonymous said...

LONG LIVE VIET NAM...

KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
Province of Viet Nam

Nation Religion KING..

1. You idiot khmer have no nation it is all belong to vietnam now.. we run your country and our brothers and sisters are all over your country and in every level of government.

2. You have no religion becuase look at you even your own country to betrayed look at Hun SEn- CPPP we control thme -- how can they have religion becuase soon will be vietnam province

3. KING what KING-- he can not beg us to keep him there-- so he have to bring his mother which she work for our interested with hun sen and cpp.. then his father to beg us for keep him...

what a loser race. you all should dies and wishes you will never born.. better born as vietnamese you might be a little smarter and maybe love your own kind ans country better..

LONG LIVE VIET NAM.

more money from china is good for our vietnamese brothers and sisters
that hold every level of officials in cambodia that control cambodia.. will use this money to further control cambodia... it is us that the king of cambodia to to beg us the viet nam to keep him there.. good work hun sen-cpp.now we have more money from china..

now we have more money we will build all of you a cage

Anonymous said...

It a pity of him to make another way of learning as many other civil servants does in order to earn his leaving. Why that his ability to speak Vietnamese and his membership as CPP is of harmful to a self-named true democrat and democratic body.

In reality, almost all of civil servants have to join CPP member for their work security and advancement albeit they abominate that communist party. That he could speak Vietnamese is a good advantage for being a good human resource of RFA.

Please don't be narrow-minded. Love breeds love, Hatred breeds hatred.

Thank

Anonymous said...

There is nothing wrong with the guy by the name of Bun Song to work in Radio Free Asia. According to the posting, the question is meant to get the confirmation from Kim So of RFA whether or not that was TRUE. RFA has the right to explain that it is not against their policy to hire government officials like Bunsong to work for it, so that other government officials are encouraged to apply for jobs at RFA everywhere not just in Cambodia.

Anonymous said...

You guys should sing Kim Sos's praise as RFA has become more famous lately under his leadership. News about purging workers in Phnom Penh and Washington DC who don't like his way of management has been well disseminated to RFA listeners, thus making this US govt-funded radio more popular among the locals than VOA. Kim Sos has done a good job in RFA, so he deserved a high-ranking post in the Cambodian government like the guy by the name of Sieng Lapresse of VOA.

Anonymous said...

Yep that guy at the RFA speaks Viet then it means that he is 100% set up by the YUONs as a spy for sure.

To that fool 7:13 Vietnamese PhoCongYuck. Go back to your shithole in Hanoi, PhoDumbese. Cambodia is no place for a dogmeat eating as you, PhoDumbese fool. Lol.

Anonymous said...

Hun Sen: my monies my power..........
I can buy most of newspapers, radio, TV and all broadcast systems,...why I could not buy RFA ...all of you are not better than me to know Kem Sos. I was really know Kem Sos and his wife since they worked for refugee at Thailand border. How many diamonds and golds that Kem Sos's wife collected from the rich refugee in the interviewed for going to the third country.
Because they like monies so I (Hun Sen) think it's a piece of cake to buy RFA.......

Anonymous said...

Ah chhkae nis chea khmer mean khuo yuon sot sat.

This doggy man is a Khmer contains completly yuon brain.

Anonymous said...

~THE TEN COMMANDMENTS~

1. Thou shalt have no other Gods before me.
2. Thou shalt not make unto thee any gaven images.
3. Thous shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in van.
4. Remember the sabbath day to keep it holy.
5. Honour thy father and thy mother.
6. Thou shalt not kill.
7. Thous shalt not commit adultery.
8. Thou shalt not steal.
9. Thou shalt not bear false witness.
10. Thou shalt not covet.

Anonymous said...

Idiot, USA and Vietnam are friend.
SRP and USA will be friend.
Hun Sen and Sihanouk will be China friend.