The Daily was shuttered by its owners, who were unable to pay a $6.3-million tax bill they say was politically motivated. Ganapathy was announced, the Post published a critical report of the deal, sparking demands from his representatives for the article to be removed from the paper’s website. “Not because we were trying to push them through some prism of outrage, but because the basic facts were genuinely awful.”īut the paper’s sale this month to a Malaysian businessman who once did public relations work for the government has cast serious doubt on whether that legacy of hard-hitting reporting will continue.Ī day after the sale to Sivakumar S. “Our stories routinely embarrassed the government,” said Chad Williams, who was editor in chief for three years until 2017. Though its print circulation is small, the Post had exploded in popularity online in recent years, racking up more than 6 million Facebook followers in a country of about 15 million. and Europe, many of whom jump-started their careers working alongside Cambodian reporters. It published scoops on illegal logging, unearthed irregularities on voting lists and exposed corrupt officials, winning awards for its coverage and attracting young journalists from the U.S. For more than 25 years, the Phnom Penh Post was one of Cambodia’s most important publications, among the few institutions trying to hold an increasingly authoritarian government to account.
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