Happy Khmer New Year!

Photo supplied by the police shows nearly naked defendants who were arrested on fraud charges. It was published last month in the Phnom Penh Post.
Consider me to be a grammar Nazi. Perhaps even worse, I tend to be a journalism tyrant as well, someone who finds himself, perhaps irrationally, irritated by lapses from commonly high journalistic standards.
I read Cambodia’s three English-language dailies online every morning or in print just about every afternoon that I am in Phnom Penh. Rarely do I get through any of the publications without finding a lapse in standards that are, to my mind, unforgivable.
I decided one day in December to skim the three journals for their lapses over a few days. Herewith what I discovered: Continue reading