{"id":40174,"date":"2021-12-29T09:58:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/who-is-hun-manet-pms-son-anointed-as-cambodias-next-leader"},"modified":"2021-12-29T09:58:27","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:58:27","slug":"who-is-hun-manet-pms-son-anointed-as-cambodias-next-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40174","title":{"rendered":"Who is Hun Manet? PM\u2019s son anointed as Cambodia\u2019s next leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bristol University and West Point graduate is the oldest of Hun Sen\u2019s six children and has been groomed to succeed his father<\/p>\n<p>A doctor in economics, military leader, Bristol University graduate, Hun Manet, the oldest son of Cambodia\u2019s prime minister Hun Sen, has been confirmed as the next leader of the country\u2019s dominant political party, which described him as a \u201cprime minister candidate [of] the future\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>At last week\u2019s congress, the Cambodian People\u2019s party (CPP), which holds every parliamentary seat, voted unanimously for 44-year-old Hun Manet to succeed his father.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/29\/who-is-hun-manet-pms-son-anointed-as-cambodias-next-leader\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bristol University and West Point graduate is the oldest of Hun Sen\u2019s six children and has been groomed to succeed his fatherA doctor in economics, military leader, Bristol University graduate, Hun Manet, the oldest son of Cambodia\u2019s prime minister&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2710,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2710"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40175,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40174\/revisions\/40175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}