Joshua Wilwohl

This entertaining tale about a reporter’s Cambodian encounter with an eccentric Russian billionaire is well worth a read.

Check out my latest story in the @MekongReview, about a rumble in the Cambodian jungle with a real(ish) Russian oligarch. mekongreview.com/meeting-mendel…

WATCH: @Reuters journalists Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo reunite with their families after being freed from jail in Myanmar. More here: reut.rs/2VpMkEh

Wisdom on a slide. @Colum_M talking about his Chinarrative media startup. #splicebeta

Really happy that we got so many Cambodian journos out at #SpliceBeta.

The hardest thing I've ever had to write. Lyra McKee, my former student who was shot and killed this week. link.medium.com/FumNJCBQ2V

A Cambodian story: This is Saing Soenthrith. He was born in Phnom Penh in 1964. There aren't any photos of him as a child, because when he was a schoolboy the Khmer Rouge seized the city and sent its entire population to the countryside to do slave labor under brutal conditions.

“No one will ever browse the Web on their wrist.”

The new owner of the @phnompenhpost - Sivakumar S. Ganapathy - held a press conference today. Here's his response (and new editor's) to allegations Vietnamese state-linked hackers used the paper's website to target local NGO @licadho #Cambodia

Statement by @phnompenhpost's new onwer on the newspaper

Received information that Cambodia Telecommunications Ministry has called May 23 meeting of ISPs regarding plan for all domestic & international internet traffic to pass through state-owned Telecom Cambodia transit center

⚡️ A revolt at the @phnompenhpost. twitter.com/i/moments/9937…

For all the hand-wringing about how Facebook and Twitter are a threat to democracy in SE Asia, we've found them essential this week, as Cambodia's last independent daily newspaper has been sold and gutted. I predict the utility of social media will be magnified in coming months.

This morning edition of The @PhnomPenhPost, with the bleak Monday incident being placed on its own front page. There are only 12 pages with significant absence of the list of the editorial team.

The Phnom Penh Post issue this morning, the morning after the acquisition. #Cambodia

"It’s their business and they said, ‘Kimsong, you’re the editor-in-chief – and you made a big mistake.’” #PhnomPenhPost #Pressfreedom sea-globe.com/phnom-penh-pos…

Comment from former managing editor Stuart White:

.@phnompenhpost sold to Malaysian investor. Story is still online atm, but for when it's not phnompenhpost.com/business/phnom… by @BrendanOByrne & @antbaliga who resigned after new owners told them to take the story off the website