The Cambodia Daily Competitors

RFA is a private, nonprofit news corporation informing audiences living in places with few alternatives to state-controlled and -influenced media through uncensored, in-depth journalism. RFA broadcasts in nine Asian languages including: Mandarin, Tibetan, Burmese, Vietnamese, Korean, Lao, Khmer, Cantonese, and Uyghur. RFA also operates websites carrying original news content in nine Asian languages, plus English, and several additional dialects. RFA is funded through an annual grant from the United States Agency for Global Media.

A good newspaper, I suppose, is a Nation talking to itself. Arthur Miller, 1961. A history that stretches back more than 15 years has made the Phnom Penh Post the ‘Newspaper of Record’. In fact the Phnom Penh Post is the oldest existing independent newspaper in any language in Cambodia. First published in July 1992, the Post is read by thousands of foreigners and Cambodians throughout the country and by subscribers in 35 countries around the globe. For more than 15 years the Phnom Penh Post has been the paper of record on Cambodian current events – read by decision makers and consumers who have helped rebuild the nation during the past decades. No other newspaper can lay claim to such an extensive record. The Phnom Penh Post presents its readers with information and analysis that is convincing, useful and unique. The Phnom Penh Post readers are also the most highly educated in the country and demand access to the highest quality information possible. Our team of editors and journalists know that simply reporting the facts is not enough: they must analyze them and explain to readers how these facts will shape and affect their lives.

It is up to the readers to make up their minds, and the better informed they are from an unbiased point of view, the easier it becomes for them to decide which way to lean on issues. We also listen to our readers and publish Letters to the Editor on a variety of subjects, to give readers a chance to have their say. Khmer Times also caters to the large young population in Cambodia with our weekly Youth Today section, with stories and features on a wide variety of topics that young people are interested in. Our daily feature, or lifestyle, pages give the latest news on wining and dining and what entertainment or shows are on. Our business section is the market leader, and our daily business pages carry not only the latest news, but also weekly updates on the kingdom’s property sector, one of the fastest growing in the region. We have a highly experienced team of journalists and photographers – many of them international award-winners – who have spent many years covering events in Cambodia, the region and the world. Khmer Times is also unique among the English-language print media in Cambodia because of the way we gather the news and report on it. We have a team of very experienced local journalists gathering the news on a daily basis and writing about it. Nobody knows a country better than the people from that country. Our small team of talented foreign journalists work as both editors, writers and photographers and help put a foreign perspective on stories when needed. Using local reporters to gather and write news is a new concept for English-language newspapers in Cambodia, but not around the region, where all the papers use the same concept. We are a truly independent newspaper using the best and most experienced local journalists and photographers with the aim of bringing our readers the best, and sometimes worst, news, business, opinions, features and sport.