PHNOM PENH: One of Cambodia’s most stridently independent newspapers, The Cambodia Daily, published its last edition with the headline “Descent Into Outright Dictatorship” as it closes amid a crackdown on critics of Prime Minister Hun Sen.
The English-language paper had been given a deadline of one month to pay US$6.3mil (RM27mil) for years of back taxes, which the publication disputed and described as “astronomical”.
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