Hun Sen is the longest-serving head of government in Cambodia's history. [4][5] He is the president of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), which has governed Cambodia since 1979, and has served as a member of the Senate since 2024.

Jul 26, 2023 · Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, one of the world's longest-serving leaders, has announced he will resign and hand over to his son in early August. The anticipated announcement came three...

Jan 23, 2025 · Hun Sen (born April 4, 1951, Peam Kaoh Sna, Kâmpóng Cham province, Cambodia) is a Cambodian politician who was the prime minister of Cambodia from 1985 to 2023. Hun Sen was educated at a Buddhist monastery in Phnom Penh. In the late 1960s he joined the Communist Party of Kampuchea and in 1970 joined the Khmer Rouge.

Jul 27, 2023 · Hun Sen was a middle-ranking commander in the radical communist Khmer Rouge regime, which was blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodians from starvation, illness and killing in the 1970s, before defecting to Vietnam.

Cambodian leader’s son, a West Point grad, set to take reins of power — but will he bring change? Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen had been a huge Facebook fan. Now he’s threatening to ban it. The Associated Press is an independent global news organization dedicated to factual reporting.

Aug 22, 2023 · West Point graduate Hun Manet, 45, is taking over as prime minister from his father, Hun Sen, who progressively tightened his grip on power as Asia’s longest-serving leader.

Jul 26, 2023 · Cambodia ’s Hun Sen, one of the world’s longest-serving prime ministers, said on Wednesday he would resign and hand power to his eldest son, after almost four decades of hardline rule.

Jul 26, 2023 · Hun Sen, who has ruled the Southeast Asian country for nearly 40 years, was speaking just days after his ruling Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) swept a general election after running virtually...

Three days after Cambodia’s highly controlled national election, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Wednesday he will step down and hand power to his eldest son, army chief Hun Manet. Hun...

Jan 12, 2015 · Hun Sen has proven to be an extremely durable politician. Now just 62-years-old, he was the world’s youngest foreign minister at age 26 after Vietnam invaded Cambodia in 1979 and ejected the...