Mediagazer: Journalist Investigating Illegal Logging Shot Dead (The Cambodia Daily)

5:00 PM ET, October 13, 2014

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The Cambodia Daily:

Journalist Investigating Illegal Logging Shot Dead — A 49-year-old journalist reportedly investigating illegal logging in Kratie province was shot dead early Sunday morning. Within hours, police arrested three men—a commune police chief, a military police officer and a Royal Cambodian Armed Forces …

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Yvonne Villarreal / Los Angeles Times:

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Washington Post:

The Post to power technology at the University of Maryland, Columbia University student newspapers — The Washington Post today announces it will provide software and technology to the student newspapers at the University of Maryland (The Diamondback) and Columbia University …

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