NEWLY LAUNCHED BURMA DAILY AND ITS CARRIER, THE CAMBODIA DAILY, CONFISCATED BY CAMBODIAN POLICE
May 19th 2008 11:06
The Cambodian government on Monday confiscated the Cambodia Daily newspaper from newsstands over a supplement called The Burma Daily, the Information Ministry and the newspaper's publisher said.
DPA reported that the official ministry explanation was that the confiscation was ordered because The Burma Daily, which had appeared since last week as an insert with an identical masthead as its sister publication, was not licensed.
But publisher Bernard Krishner argued that the paper did not need a license because it was a supplement and the decision to confiscate the English- and Khmer-language daily, which has a circulation of about 5,000, reflected badly on the government.
Krishner said he had not spoken to the ministry about the reasons for confiscating the paper
"I don't have to explain to anyone," he said. "The New York Times does not explain to President Bush."
There is some speculation that the government might fear that the often anti-government Cambodia Daily might embarrass it by taking a similar approach to the Burmese military junta.
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