Without funding, the publisher of Cambodge Soir Hebdo stop working, said director Editor Jerome Morinière to employees, Monday, Sept. 27.
"The directors of the company withdrew from the French adventure, which at the time of economic crisis, had become too expensive," he announced, after failing to find a new investor .
The newspaper began a dialogue with members of the board of directors to decide the terms of dismissal for thirty employees (journalists, designers, commercial, administrative staff and couriers) of the company.
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
had published its first issue October 4, 2007, after several months of internal crisis in the newspaper, launched in 1995 on a tri-weekly basis. Joined
daily in 1997, the newspaper had closed in July 2007 after the resignation of journalists.
The new formula, weekly, was launched with the financial support of Beatrice Latham and the International Organization of la Francophonie.
In 2009, one of its journalists, Ung Chansophea, won the Award of the Francophone Press Freedom Award by the International Organization of la Francophonie, Reporters Without Borders and Radio France Internationale for a story on battered women, becoming the first Asian to receive this award.
The articles, written by a French-Cambodian, were regularly included in Mail International.
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
, who prepares his last number, thanks its readers, advertisers and friends who supported him during those three years.
SreAmbel, Cambodia France 
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