climate in Cambodia, according to the UN Human Rights Office. The paper's closure followed the ban of popular independent radio news programs Voice of America, Radio Free Asia and Voice of Democracy as part of a country-wide media crackdown. The journalist community and Cambodian civil society showed their support for the paper with the social media movement #SaveTheDaily, and its closure received international coverage, including in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post and Al Jazeera. Within six weeks of the paper's closure, a news digest appeared on its website signaling an attempt to relaunch the shuttered paper as an online-only news service from outside Cambodia. On February 4, 2018, the Phnom Penh Post reported that the Cambodian Telecoms Ministry Secretary of State Khay Khunheng had ordered all Cambodian ISPs "to block the [Cambodia Daily's] webpage . . . and guarantee that this webpage and IP address will no longer be operating in the Kingdom of the Cambodia”. The letter also requested to block access to the Daily’s Facebook and Twitter accounts. Relaunch Despite the government-ordered blocking of The Cambodia Daily's online presence, the numbers of its readership and social media followers have increased since September 2017. While the print publication was an English-language newspaper with Khmer translations, the online service strengthened its Khmer language news service presenting its content in not only text but also in audio and video format. The Cambodia Daily Youtube channel in Khmer was launched in February 2018 and gained about 2,000 subscribers within its first two months; as of March 2019, it had around 28,000 subscribers. It caters to the growing number of smartphone owners across the nation and to an audience of varying levels of literacy. The content is either written and edited or aggregated offshore and available through The Cambodia Daily website, Facebook, and YouTube. Notable staff Molly Ball Thomas Beller Robert Bingham Bernard Krisher Kelly McEvers Graeme Wood See also Media of Cambodia References External links Khmer News Aggregator - including other popular Khmer news sites. Newspapers published in Cambodia English-language newspapers published in Asia Mass media in Phnom Penh Defunct daily newspapers 2017 disestablishments in Cambodia