Monday, March 17, 2008Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
The Sralanh Khmer (Love Khmer) newspaper which supports the Sam Rainsy Party stopped its publication since the end of last week, claiming that a phone threat was made against the Angkor printing shop, ordering it to stop printing the Sralanh Khmer newspaper. The Mekong Times reported that the stop of the publication of Sralanh Khmer on Saturday was made because an official from the ministry of information ordered the print shop to stop printing the newspaper. However, the ministry of information rejected this news. Khieu Kanharith, spokesman for the government, said that he did not order the stopping of Sralanh Khmer’s publication. Khieu Kanharith said that this story was made up, and that near the election, people always raised this issue. Some rumors explained that the temporary stop of the Sralanh Khmer was due to the fact that Thach Ket, the newspaper publisher, resigned from the SRP and joined the CPP. On the other hand Thach Ket is currently in Kampuchea Krom, he is expected to return back to Cambodia on Monday. Whether the newspaper will re-open again or not, this issue will not be resolved until Thach Ket is back in Cambodia first.
