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    In Cambodia Daily’s shuttering, ill winds for country’s democracy?

    Sep 08, 2017 5 minutes
    Staff gather for the final editorial meeting of the Cambodia Daily. The paper was shut down by a government crackdown on independent media, representing a surge in authoritarianism from the government of Hun Sen, Cambodia's prime minister of 32 years.

    The Cambodia Daily office walls are bare but for a few photos of journalists picking splinters on fishing boats and chasing illegal loggers in the forest. The paper moved to new premises in a nondescript street in the capital of Phnom Penh in December 2016, and the space doesn’t feel lived in yet.

    It’s as if they expected to get closed down – which they did last week. Vendors in Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh, were soon hawking badly photocopied versions of Monday’s last edition after it sold out within hours. The headline took a parting shot at the government that had forced it to close: “Descent into Outright Dictatorship,” it said.

    “I went to work for ten years expecting the Daily to get shut down,” says Kevin Doyle, a former editor-in-chief. “People are afraid to speak out in Cambodia’s political environment and we knew our role

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