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Hun Sen

(L to R) Philippine President Benigno Aquino, Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Thailand's Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Brunei Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, Myanmar's President Thein Sein, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, Indonesia's President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong and Malaysian Senate President Abu Zahar Ujang from the 10-nation Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) join hands for a group photo at the summit in Bandar Seri Begawan on April 25, 2013. Southeast Asian leaders of the 10-member grouping were set to wrap up a summit on April 25 dominated by efforts to defuse tensions over the South China Sea and deepen economic links throughout the region.

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    are likely to increase speculation that Hun Sen is seeking to establish a political dynasty, even though he's only 60.Most of Hun Sen's immediate family members hold influential jobs.His oldest and most-favored son, Hun Manet, is a two-star army general with   Read more »

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About Hun Sen

Hun Sen (Khmer: ហ៊ុន សែន) (born April 4, 1951 or August 5, 1952) is the Prime Minister of Cambodia. His current, full, honorary title is: Samdech Akkak Moha Sena Pedey Decho. He is one of the key leaders of the Cambodian People's Party, which has governed Cambodia since the Vietnamese-backed overthrow of the Khmer Rouge in 1979. He was a former Khmer Rouge who escaped to Vietnam before 1979 in order to call the Vietnamese to overthrow the other Khmer rouge. From then on he was in power. Since the restoration of multi-party democracy in 1993, the CPP has been in coalition with the royalist Funcinpec party and as senior partner since 1997. The title "Samdech" was attached to his name in 1993 by King Norodom Sihanouk. It is only an honorary title and does not give him further powers. He has a glass eye, the result of a wound sustained during the Khmer Rouge offensive against Phnom Penh in April 1975.

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