{"id":56984,"date":"2023-07-26T16:59:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T07:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/cambodia-pm-hun-sen-steps-down-hands-over-power-son"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:08:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T13:08:43","slug":"cambodia-pm-hun-sen-steps-down-and-hands-over-power-to-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56984","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia PM Hun Sen steps down and hands over power to son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hardline leader announces end of four-decade rule after his party\u2019s landslide victory in election<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s authoritarian leader, Hun Sen, has said that he will resign and hand power to his eldest son, after ruling the country for almost four decades.<\/p>\n<p>Under Hun Sen, political opponents have been imprisoned, forced into exile and their parties banned. Just days ago his party claimed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/23\/cambodia-election-results-hun-sen-spoiled-ballots\">landslide victory after running virtually unopposed<\/a> in an election that was widely expected to be his last before the succession.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/26\/cambodia-pm-hun-sen-steps-down-hands-over-power-son\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hardline leader announces end of four-decade rule after his party\u2019s landslide victory in electionCambodia\u2019s authoritarian leader, Hun Sen, has said that he will resign and hand power to his eldest son, after ruling the country for almost four decades.U&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"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-56984","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\/56984","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\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57004,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56984\/revisions\/57004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}