Puppet master: Hun Sen (centre) and Hun Manet (right) attending a ceremony marking the 45th anniversary of the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime in Phnom Penh in January. — AFP
THE nation’s Prime Minister Hun Manet kept a low profile at the Asean summit in Vientiane, holding meetings on the sidelines with fellow leaders but making no public statements to the media.
An ex-military man, he marched straight past waiting reporters as he arrived for summit sessions, his most animated moment a jovial conversation with Singapore’s foreign minister.
