Peculiar partnership between ministry and foreign firm aims to connect government to the people as free press withers away
The blossoming friendship between China and the Cambodian government has become so close that a Chinese majority-owned, Khmer Language television station has built studios directly inside the Ministry of Interior in Phnom Penh. It’s a peculiar joint venture that comes as western-backed news outfits are being shutdown or harassed ahead of a national election in July. David Boyle has this report from Phnom Penh.
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