Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet has sacked a prominent provincial city mayor while reports say rank and file members of the police and military, up to the rank of brigadier general, have been fired or demoted amid allegations of corrupt practices. The shake-up had been forecast by diplomats in recent weeks with Cambodian authorities grappling with … Read more
In its most recent national party congress last month, the ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) appointed Prime Minister Hun Manet as its newest vice president. This new political maneuver took place just a little over 100 days after Manet succeeded his father, Hun Sen, as premier in a dynastic succession arrangement that saw scions like … Read more
One of this columnist’s earliest experiences of Cambodia, perhaps a week or so after he arrived, was of a mob. Hitching a ride with a motodop, we pulled up near what at first seemed a standard traffic accident, the kind that becomes routine when you live in Phnom Penh for some time. From a safe … Read more
A Cambodian government critic who was beaten up by assailants last year has been arrested on charges of incitement and defamation after posting a social media comment that made fun of the Ministry of Commerce. Ny Nak, who sells fertilizer and fruit trees from the capital Phnom Penh, was arrested on Friday after Minister of … Read more
Each year, the U.S. State Department publishes its Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report which ranks every country on a descending 1-3 scale in terms of demonstrated commitment to combatting human trafficking. The review period for the 2024 report is now well underway. Despite the continued flourishing of a state-facilitated industry of human trafficking-enabled scamming and … Read more
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet capped his first 100 days in office with a highly successful Water Festival, which marked the return of dragon boat racing for the first time since 2019 and – as many said privately – hopefully better days ahead. The importance of the boat races should not be underestimated after their … Read more
Hun Manet’s first 100 days as prime minister show that Cambodia’s leadership has no vision for the future and that an effective transfer of power has yet to take place. The new prime minister took over from his father Hun Sen on August 22. His lack of credibility was immediately clear when he addressed the United Nations … Read more
The Debate | Opinion Despite repeated requests, Bristol University has refused to release the Cambodian leader’s doctoral thesis in economics. Prime Minister Dr. Hun Manet, At present, your PhD thesis, completed at Bristol University in 2009, sits gathering dust on a shelf in a library building in southwest Britain. No one reads it and no one is … Read more
Magazine Manet’s path to security in power will be difficult, as he is forced to carefully navigate the system his father built and, to a large degree, still controls. Hun Manet, foreground, a son of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, waves his supporters as he leads a procession to mark the end of an election … Read more
Advertisement In recent weeks, Cambodia’s state-aligned media has been flooded with articles attempting to recast the narrative around one of the ruling elite’s core economic interests: human trafficking-fueled scamming. The evidence is overwhelming. Over the past three years, Cambodia has become the epicenter of a globally unprecedented phenomenon in state-facilitated criminality: an online scam industry … Read more