Two foreign journalists were briefly detained in a Kandal province garment factory yesterday and ordered to delete photos they had taken, police confirmed yesterday.

Sitbou commune police chief Mey Sarin said the journalists – working for Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail – were held for about half an hour at Dignity Knitter Limited after entering the factory without permission.

“They entered through the small factory door at the same time as the workers were leaving through the big door and the security guards did not see them,” Sarin said.

WORDS, ACTION: Activists criticized lawmakers for failing to fulfill vows to pass anti-media monopoly laws, saying that their proposal would set ‘red lines’ for news outlets. Anti-media monopoly activists yesterday proposed their version of an anti-monopoly act and urged legislative caucuses across party lines to fulfill their promises to enact measures to prevent media monopolies.

“Despite many politicians across party lines promising that they would push for legislation against media monopolization, they have been rather unenthusiastic about turning their words into action,” Chiu Hei-yuan, a research fellow at Academia Sinica’s Institute of Sociology, told a news conference at the Legislative Yuan. “I hope lawmakers can show that they are sincere about this issue.”