Cambodia: Hun Sen growing more autocratic, opposition leader arrested

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Kem Sokha, of the right-wing liberal party CNRP, was arrested at his home recently. The CNRP had a very good local election in June, so it looks like the regime is flexing its muscles and cracking down on the press, activists etc. while panicking enough to promise minimum wage hikes and social spending. Might be interesting to monitor.

[Kingpoleon]

Between this, the horrid genocide in Myanmar, and the military coup in Siam, I have to say that Indochina is doing well.

[MAINEiac4434]

Between this, the horrid genocide in Myanmar, and the military coup in Siam, I have to say that Indochina is doing well.

This is odd considering five words before you used the right name for Myanmar. Thailand is known as "Thai" in the Thai language, so it's not like Siam is closer to the Thai people's pronounciation.

Bizarre.

[Kingpoleon]

Between this, the horrid genocide in Myanmar, and the military coup in Siam, I have to say that Indochina is doing well.

This is odd considering five words before you used the right name for Myanmar. Thailand is known as "Thai" in the Thai language, so it's not like Siam is closer to the Thai people's pronounciation.

Bizarre.

I'm sorry - I read up on historical geography before I read up on modern geography. I still catch myself saying Burma sometimes.

[Lord Halifax]

Between this, the horrid genocide in Myanmar, and the military coup in Siam, I have to say that Indochina is doing well.

This is odd considering five words before you used the right name for Myanmar. Thailand is known as "Thai" in the Thai language, so it's not like Siam is closer to the Thai people's pronounciation.

Bizarre.

I'm sorry - I read up on historical geography before I read up on modern geography. I still catch myself saying Burma sometimes.

Which is the proper name for the country. Myanmar is what the military regime renamed it to and its still not a proper democracy, so we shouldn't use their name.

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Between this, the horrid genocide in Myanmar, and the military coup in Siam, I have to say that Indochina is doing well.

This is odd considering five words before you used the right name for Myanmar. Thailand is known as "Thai" in the Thai language, so it's not like Siam is closer to the Thai people's pronounciation.

Bizarre.

I'm sorry - I read up on historical geography before I read up on modern geography. I still catch myself saying Burma sometimes.

Which is the proper name for the country. Myanmar is what the military regime renamed it to and its still not a proper democracy, so we shouldn't use their name.

I myself been using "Burma".

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CNRP has been forcibly dissolved by the top court. Half of its legislators have already fled the country.

Hun Sen will be unopposed in 2018.

[Tintrlvr]

Between this, the horrid genocide in Myanmar, and the military coup in Siam, I have to say that Indochina is doing well.

This is odd considering five words before you used the right name for Myanmar. Thailand is known as "Thai" in the Thai language, so it's not like Siam is closer to the Thai people's pronounciation.

Bizarre.

I'm sorry - I read up on historical geography before I read up on modern geography. I still catch myself saying Burma sometimes.

Which is the proper name for the country. Myanmar is what the military regime renamed it to and its still not a proper democracy, so we shouldn't use their name.

This is a complicated and touchy topic, and "Burma" is very much a colonial imposition/mispronunciation (and describes only the Bamar and not any other ethnic group in Burma/Myanmar), so there are arguments on both sides. The end of the junta has also significantly changed the dynamics of the issue, since the subsequent at least ostensibly democratic government led by the former opposition continues to call the country Myanmar.