{"id":57741,"date":"2023-08-22T12:03:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/22\/who-is-cambodia-pm-hun-manet-hun-sen-son-transfer-of-power"},"modified":"2023-08-22T12:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T03:03:01","slug":"cambodia-son-of-long-time-ruler-hun-sen-becomes-pm-in-historic-transfer-of-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57741","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia: son of long time ruler Hun Sen becomes PM in historic transfer of power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major powers will be watching to see if Hun Manet adopts his father\u2019s authoritarian approach to governing<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s newly elected parliament has endorsed military general Hun Manet as prime minister, completing a historic transfer of power in a fast-changing country led by his father for nearly four decades.<\/p>\n<p>The western-educated Hun Manet, 45, had the backing of most of the National Assembly in proceedings screened live on television on Tuesday. He became eligible for the job after winning a seat in last month\u2019s parliamentary elections, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/23\/cambodia-election-results-hun-sen-spoiled-ballots\">widely criticised as a sham<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/22\/who-is-cambodia-pm-hun-manet-hun-sen-son-transfer-of-power\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Major powers will be watching to see if Hun Manet adopts his father\u2019s authoritarian approach to governingCambodia\u2019s newly elected parliament has endorsed military general Hun Manet as prime minister, completing a historic transfer of power in a fast-ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":203,"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-57741","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\/57741","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\/203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57742,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57741\/revisions\/57742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}