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Lanmei Airlines is a low-cost carrier based in Cambodia which commenced operations in September 2017.
Image: Christian Junker; CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Hun Sen's personal interest in reviving Cambodia's ethnic Chinese community likely grew from a combination of economic and personal factors. Economically, Hun Sen was convinced by 1990 that only capitalism could bring development to Cambodia.
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Cambodia is the only country in the modern era to have had money, had that money abolished, and then had money reinstated. Shiller, in the article mentioned previously, mentioned - without detail - that Marxist Communism supported the idea of societies without money. This, of course, is correct. But I should emphasise that Marx went further than just support the abolition of money. In fact, this was central to Marxism.
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Tomba Pol Pot, E' stato cremato con le gomme dei trattori e dei camion, il massimo dell'umiliazione; Du Hangst; CC BY 2.0
From the perspective of political economy, the realities of contemporary Anlong Veng make perfect sense – Douglass North’s famous statement about the “stickiness” of institutions, both formal and informal. At the same time, however, it raised the question of the current state of societal trust in Cambodia and the impacts thereof as to economic development.
Read moreThe Khmer Rouge communists continued to wage a protracted low-intensity battle by targeting lines of communication and other economic targets as a tactic to terrorize the people and undermine any faith they might have in the ability of the PRK regime to protect them. They also employed a combination of tactics such as propaganda, bribery, intimidation, torture and outright execution of PRK officials.
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President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister of Cambodia Hun Sen at the ASEAN-Russia Summit in Sochi May 2016; Image: Kremlin.ru
The question on everyone's mind since the communal elections in Cambodia is, naturally, what's going to happen in the national elections next year?
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Norodom Sihanouk, former King of Cambodia (left) is welcomed on April 22, 1975, in Pyongyang by North Korean President and "Great Leader" Kim Il Sung (right). Photo: AFP
If you ever visit Phnom Penh or Siem Reap in Cambodia, you may have had the pleasure of looking at a curious chain of restaurants called “Pyongyang Restaurants”. These chains are found throughout China and Southeast Asia and are run the North Korean government, staffed by North Korean waitresses, serving North Korean cuisine.
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General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Nguyen Phu Trong and the visiting Lao Prime Minister Thongloun Sisoulith on 15 May 2017 Photo: VNA
Francis Fukuyama's prediction of the "end of history" and the inevitability of the establishment of liberal democracy clearly took a hit after the third wave of democratization as we continued and continue to observe roll backs of individual rights across the globe. So, why has this been the case? What exactly do we know about democratization?
During the course of my research centered on the historical relationship between Cambodia and India, I came across a remarkable piece of authorship by Dr David Kenneth Basset (1931-1989), who reveals intriguing details of much less scrutinized features of the Company's inner-deliberations and operations pertaining to the East Indies.
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