Cambodia’s most fabled newspaper, The Phnom Penh Post, has published its final English and Khmer language editions after 32 years of operations amid an economic downturn that prompted a mixed reaction from critics and long-term observers.
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The Post’s senior management blamed ballooning financial costs endured after the Covid-19 pandemic and the “subsequent economic downturn” — which seemed at odds with the government trumpeting of this country’s financial prospects — for the closure.
“It is most unfortunate as I read this newspaper every day,” said Khieu Kanharith, a former information minister about the last edition of the paper on March 29.
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