Taing Vida

A prominent researcher studying Cambodia’s border with Vietnam said yesterday that he had received numerous threats on Facebook amid the protracted and fiery debate surrounding the disputed frontier.

Sok Touch, the head of the Royal Academy of Cambodia’s research team tasked with investigating border demarcation, said that while he has received public support for the process he and his researchers are undertaking, he has also suffered harassment and insults through Facebook and other mediums.

“Since I’ve started work on the border research, there has been [a lot] of curses and criticism,” he said yesterday.

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hopefully in his investigations he'll find his backbone.