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Programme

Thursday, 15/11/2007

During the dayArrival of Participants

19:00 pmWelcome Dinner

Location: L’Explorateur Bar Terrace or Pool, 1st Floor

Friday, 16/11/2007

08:00 a.m.Registration

Location: Bayon Ballroom, 1st Floor

09:00 a.m.Opening Ceremony

Welcome remarks

Mr. Clauspeter Hill, Director, Rule of Law Programme Asia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Singapore

09:20 a.m. Keynote address and official opening: “Cambodia: It’s Media in Troubled Times - An Overview”

Speaker: H. E. Mr. Srey CHHANNY, Secretary of State

10:00 a.m.Q & A Session, Moderator: Clauspeter Hill

10:45 a.m. Morning Coffee Break

11:15 a.m.“Responsible Journalism: Personal Rights – Limits of Freedom”

Speaker: Ms. Eva RHODE, Lecturer at the Department for Media and Communication, Royal University of Phnom Penh

12:00 p.m.Q & A Session, Moderator: Mr. Clauspeter Hill

12:30 p.m.Luncheon

Location: L’Escale Restaurant, 1st Floor

14:00 p.m.“Media-Laws: Protection or Threat for Journalists?”

Speaker: Mr. Hinca IP PANDJAITAN, SH MH ACCS Media Lawyer, LQQ Media Law Offices, Indonesia (t.b.c.)

14:45 p.m.Q & A Session, Moderator: Mr. Werner vom Busch, Director, Media Programme Asia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Singapore

15:15 p.m.Afternoon Coffee Break

15:45 p.m.“Self-rule or Self-censorship: Press-councils instead of Court Cases?”

Speaker: Mr. Pen SAMITTHY, President of the Club of Cambodian Journalists, Cambodia

16:30 p.m.Q & A Session, Moderator: Mr. Clauspeter Hill

17:00 pm“Celebrities Close up – Where Are the Legal Boundaries”

Speaker: Mr. Mukund PADMANABHAN, Editor “The Hindu” and Lawyer, India

17:30 p.m.Q & A Session, Moderator: Mr. Clauspeter Hill

18:00 p.m. End of Day one

19.30 p.m.Dinner

Location: Le Jardin d’Apsara, 1st Floor

Saturday, 17/11/2007

09:00 a.m. “Contempt, Defamation, Privilege - Three Problematical Media Laws”

Speaker: Mr. Mukund PADMANABHAN, Editor “The Hindu” and Lawyer, India

09:45 a.m. Q & A Session, Moderator: Mr. Werner vom Busch

10:30 a.m. Morning Coffee Break

11:00 a.m. Panel Discussion: "Tips and Traps: How Can Problems with the Judiciary Be Avoided"

Speakers: Mr. Werner vom Busch

Mr. Clauspeter Hill

Mr. Mukund Padmanabhan

Mr. Hinca IP Pandjaitan

11:45 a.m.Q & A Session, Moderator: Mr. Clauspeter Hill

12:15 p.m.Farewell Remarks

Mr. Werner vom Busch, Director, Media Programme Asia, Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Singapore

12:30 p.m.Luncheon

Location: L’ Escale Restaurant

14:00 p.m.Cultural Tour to the Temples of Angkor Wat

(Delegates to assemble at the Main Lobby at 13.45 p.m.)

19:00 p.m.Farewell Dinner

Location: L’Escale Restaurant

Sunday 18/11/2007

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