Anchor Moy wrote: Yeah, just read it. Your Mother started a thread somewhere here.

Looking forward to the hard-hitting follow-up in the CD and PPP.

Phnom Penh Post: Few rules on logging beat
It is a sometimes dangerous job, but Mat says none of the local reporters get into the business out of a desire to conserve the remaining forests. They are similarly unmotivated by the ethics of journalism.

“We don’t have salaries, so sometimes loggers or sources ask us to delete pictures, or for us not to write a story. We have to do what they say because they give us sometimes $50 or $100,” says Mat, who also writes many of the articles.

The killing on Sunday of local reporter Taing Try, who was shot in the head on the side of a muddy road, allegedly by a military police officer involved in illegal logging, tragically highlights the relationship that local reporters in rural areas maintain with illegal logging syndicates. According to journalists who were with Try the day he died, that relationship can be at once symbiotic and antagonistic.