STORY OF THE DAY • Jun 04, 2021 • 12 min read
History Inside the decrepit Hotel Renakse, Cambodia’s free press was reborn
By
Alastair McCready
• Jun 04, 2021
Today the crumbling Hotel Renakse sits empty in the shadow of Phnom Penh's Royal Palace, being slowly reclaimed by nature. But in the early 1990s, the hotel played host to three decisive moments in the reintroduction of press freedom to Cambodia