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LOCAL RADIO IN A CAMBODIAN
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Excerpt from a paper,
submitted by student Pen Sophal:
In third world countries like Cambodia, social
issues is a major problem for development. Radio
is the most influential tool at this moment to
help people, whom many of them are illiterate and
live in the countryside, become aware of things
happening around them and get ideas of making a
good decision. Feature and magazine program is
what I would like to focus on.
Almost all radio stations are state-controlled
(there is one opposition radio in Cambodia right
now), and we have few local radio stations, which
just entertain or are government-backed.
Recently, Cambodian Club of Journalism, the
biggest Journalism Club in Cambodia, has done
research on possibilities of setting up community
radio. Negatively responding to this, government
officially decided not to give license to those
who want to set up community radio until
broadcast law exists. |
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