Cambodian Stampede Featured in North American Press
One day after the tragic stampede at the Water Festival in Cambodia that killed at least 351 people, a number of major newspapers across the United States and Canada featured the Cambodian story on their front pages. The collection of front pages at Washington's Newseum, an interactive museum of news and journalism just a few blocks from the US Capitol, shows the prominence of the stampede news in nation-wide and state-wide newspapers in the United States and Canada. The news attracted passers-by well into the late evening. (By Soeung Sophat, VOA Khmer)
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The Boston Globe features the story prominently. The city of Lowell in Massachusetts, just one hour northeast of Boston, is the second largest Cambodian community in the United States.
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The Wall Street Journal, the largest American newspaper by circulation, prominently features the Cambodian stampede story on its front page.
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Even a newspaper in the more remote state of Montana features the Cambodian stampede story on its front page.
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A newspaper in the state of Vermont features the Cambodian story.
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A passersby examine the main photo of the stampede in Cambodia on the front page of Washington Post of November 23, 2010.
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A major Canadian newspaper, the Globe and Mail, has the Cambodian story on its front page.
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