PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Wednesday he will step down in August and hand the position to his oldest son, though Asia’s longest-serving leader is expected to continue to wield significant power. The widely anticipated move comes after the autocratic Hun Sen’s Cambodian People’s Partysecured a landslide victoryon Sunday in elections that Western countries and rights organizationscriticized as neither free nor fair, partially because the country’s main oppositionw

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People dutifully lined the road as far as you could see, party stickers on their cheeks, the sky-blue hats and shirts they had been given to wear getting steadily wetter.... New laws were hurriedly passed criminalising any encouragement of ballot-spoiling or a boycott.... Several Candlelight members were arrested." Why was the CPP campaigning so hard, against no one in this election with no real opposition?...

Hun Manet, center, arriving at the National Assembly in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Tuesday to be elected as the country’s new prime minister.... 21, 2023 For close to four decades, Hun Sen, the prime minister of Cambodia, maintained his grip on power by upholding a simple conceit: The country needed him, and, as such, he could never retire. Not anymore.On Tuesday, Mr.... Hun Sen, 71, transferred the premiership to his son, Gen....