Cambodia’s last independent newspaper is running on a skeleton staff with no foreign reporters or editors after a dispute erupted with the company’s new Malaysian owner over a story linking him to the country’s ruler Hun Sen. Former majority shareholder Bill Clough announced the sale of The Post on May 6 following a multimillion-dollar tax dispute with the Cambodian government that echoed the shuttering of The Cambodia Daily in September 2017 over a tax bill of over US$6 million. In the past year the Cambodian government closed The Cambodia Daily and dissolved the main opposition party in a wide-ranging crackdown. Hun Sen’s government has closed virtually all independent media and convinced the courts to dissolve the only credible opposition party ahead of July’s election.