Hun Sen doles out cash and threats as opposition dissolved

Phnom Penh: On the same day Cambodia’s highest court dissolved the main opposition party, Prime Minister Hun Sen was busy campaigning at garment factories, urging some 10,000 workers to vote for his ruling Cambodian Peoples Party and doling out cash to more than 700 pregnant women.

The strongman leader said he planned to remain in power for at least 10 more years before repeating lavish promises of additional benefits for garment workers beginning next year, including free healthcare, a higher minimum wage and a US$100 (RM417) bonus to mothers for every newborn child.