Overseas Press Club of Cambodia
Serving Cambodia with quality journalism since 1993
The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia is an independent and all-volunteer-run organization representing foreign journalists working in Cambodia.
Through advocacy and other activities, the OPCC aims to support working journalists and promote press freedom and professionalism in the country.
PHNOM PENH – The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia is dismayed with the sudden closure of The Cambodia Daily. Cambodia has often been praised for its vibrant press, with two English publications and several Khmer-language ones going about the often messy business of battling for public ideas. Taken together with the silencing of 19 radio
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PHNOM PENH – The OPCC is disturbed by the levelling, by the Cambodian Government, of a huge tax bill on the Cambodia Daily – a newspaper published since 1993. The $6.3 million bill, calculated by the Tax Department, will force the paper to close if they do not pay by Sept. 4. Due process has
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PHNOM PENH – The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia is concerned about the arrest of Australian filmmaker James Ricketson, who was charged with spying on June 9. Ricketson was arrested on June 2 for flying a drone over an opposition rally ahead of the recent commune elections. He was detained without charge for six days,
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PHNOM PENH – The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia condemns the intimidation of Cambodia Daily reporter, Zsombor Peter via social media. Last night, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith posted a picture of Peter’s passport to his Facebook page where it remains at the time of writing. He included a note to journalists to make sure they
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PRESS RELEASE PHNOM PENH – The Overseas Press Club of Cambodia is deeply concerned about the defamation case brought against BBC correspondent, Jonathan Head in Thailand. In Thailand, like Cambodia, defamation is a criminal offence rather than a civil one. The threshold in both countries is much lower for parties to bring cases against
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