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The Phnom Penh Post, a newspaper founded in 1992 as Cambodia sought to re-establish stability and democracy after decades of war and unrest, said on Friday that it will stop publishing in print this month, the latest blow to the country's dwindling independent media...
It wrote on social media accounts that it would stop publishing both English and Khmer editions by March 29, citing a decline in advertising revenues due to a pandemic-related economic downturn, which added to financial difficulties caused by the spread of social media and other new technology...
The Post was founded on a shoestring by Americans Michael Hayes and Kathleen OKeefe as Cambodia with UN help, sought to recover from the devastation wrought by the brutal rule of the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s...
By that time, all independent media was coming under increasing pressure as then-Prime Minister Hun Sen and his Cambodia Peoples Party tightened their grip on power and sought to silence most critics..
Last year, one of Cambodias few remaining independent media outlets, Voice of Democracy radio, ceased operations after Hun Sen ordered its closure for allegedly slandering his son in a story...
