Hun Sen mistakenly claimed while speaking about peace-building in Myanmar that a jailed Australian economist there had been released. He later acknowledged the error, saying “this confusion came from misinformation I received.”
A local NGO was denied monthly access to jailed NagaWorld union members, a Lor Peang activist was sent to prison this week, and Cambodia reversed its insistence on Myanmar’s attendance at a Asean foreign ministers meeting this month.
More than 10 Taiwanese are being held against their will and working at a scam operation, said Taiwan’s foreign ministry. There are 84 endangered deer in a small patch of Kratie grassland. Hun Sen spoke with junta chief Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday, with the prime minister putting forth a four-point appeal.
According to a Myanmar ethnic political group, the ceasefire extension announced after Hun Sen’s visit has not stopped military action.
While a government news agency touted Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Myanmar, Singaporean and Malaysian officials were unsettled by the Asean chair’s interaction with the military regime.
Myanmar state member of parliament Min Tun Min Aung writes an open letter to Prime Minister Hun Sen, who visited the country last week.
Protesters in Myanmar have turned their ire against Prime Minister Hun Sen by bombarding his Facebook page with abusive comments and burning images of him as he visited the country on Friday.
Hun Sen is set to meet with Myanmar’s military junta leadership on Friday even as pressure mounts on the Cambodian prime minister to refrain from taking unilateral actions as the chair of Asean.
At a hotel inauguration, Hun Sen continued to defend his decision to travel to Myanmar next month to find a resolution to the February military takeover of the now-shunned Asean member state.
The United States was not against engagement with Myanmar’s junta, said a senior State Department official Friday evening, though it had to be a “purposeful” engagement.
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