Channel 3 yesterday apologised to Cambodians after its reporter appeared to have stepped on a picture of Cambodia’s recently deceased former king Norodom Sihanouk.

Cambodian social media have been awash with the image of black-clad reporter Thapanee Ietsrichai appearing to put her right foot on a sheet of paper on the ground that carried King Sihanouk’s picture. She was reporting in Phnom Penh on the preparations for the funeral of the ex-monarch, who died on Monday in Beijing.

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