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Phnom
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EXTRA
- PHNOM
PENH TOP FIVE STORIES
D. J. Ken - National Radio Text Service
Activist Theary Seng took the number one spot in our review of the documentary Facing Genocide in which Seng is the primary focus of the film - The child sex trade documentary Red Light continues to attract readers as it is ranks 2nd on the Phnom Penh Top 5 - Phnom Penh Burning returns to the charts
Phnom Penh, Cambodia Sunday June 26, 2011 THE BEAT GOES ON The popularity of our previous Phnom Penh Top 5 Stories in February 2011 prompted us to assemble another PP Top 5 ratings list. In our previous edition our review on the Cambodia's child sex industry documentary Red Light took the # 1 position. It also has qualified for our overall NR Top 10 ratings. Five months on Red Light continues to attract readers as it is ranks 2nd on the June NR Top 10 ratings and has made this Phnom Penh Top 5 chart by also notching the 2nd spot. Activist Theary Seng took the number one spot in our review of the documentary Facing Genocide in which Seng is the primary focus of the film. That review also is ranked # 4 in our June edition of our overall NR Top 10 ratings. Phnom Penh Burning returns to the charts. It is our oldest piece and deals with the student riots in Phnom Penh in 2003 and burned down several Thai businesses in the city. It was a result of the resentment of the students after a Thai actress allegedly claimed that Angkor Wat belonged to the Thai's. Are we speaking shades of Preah Vihear? The fourth and fifth spots were taken by our take on the Tourism Forum held in January in Phnom Penh title NO WONDER IN THE KINGDOM OF WONDER. That was followed by the ICT FAILED TO DELIVER THE WORD. It raises questions of how ethical are the figures reported by Cambodia's telecom industry where the apparent exaggerated numbers presented belie logic. In a strange twist our soccer and sports sections were the most visited. The irony being is that when we first arrived in Phnom Penh over a decade ago then Phnom Penh Post owner and editor Michael Hayes and Cambodia Daily owner Bernard Krisher asked what did we do? We replied we covered primarily sports and entertainment. Both said at that time that they didn't cover those subjects. So much for foresight. Since then the Post has changed hands. Currently the Post is diligent in it's' coverage of those subjects while the Daily rarely mentions either. As they say what goes around comes around. SURPRISES!!! Though it's not a NR generated story an OPINION piece on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal jumped up on the charts within a few days of being published thus we are including it in our surprise section due to its rapid movement up the charts. In our search surprisingly though Dennis Rodman has nothing to do with Phnom Penh in our search of the ratings he popped up in the top 10 among 1530 listings. In the Southeast Asian region the youth are familiar about his role as an actor but know nothing about his NBA basketball career which led him to be named to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. A story that repeatedly surfaces for some unknown reason was published in May 2004 on Charles Salmon the one time US Ambassador to Laos. We Googled his name and he continues to be a mystery as there is very little information about him. So why is there such interest? Salmon gave a speech at the University of Cambodia in Phnom Penh. We also have the ONLY photo of him as we could find no other on Google. Is that the draw? PHNOM PENH TOP 5
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