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• Cambodia's last independent newspaper, The Phnom Penh Post, has been purged of staff after publishing an article about the paper's sale to the owner of a PR firm.
• At least six staff, including the editor-in-chief, have been fired or resigned after the new owner of the paper demanded the article be taken down.
• The PR firm in question previously worked on a campaign for Cambodia's prime minister.
• Cambodia has seen a sweeping media crackdown and Prime Minister Hun Sen has taken steps to silence political opposition and media dissent.

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Cambodia's last independent English-language newspaper, The Phnom Penh Post, has been purged of staff after it ran an article about the paper's sale.

At least six staff, including Editor-in-Chief Kay Kimsong, have resigned or been fired since the paper's new owner, Sivakumar S Ganapathy, demanded staff takedown an article published on Sunday about the sale. 
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