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This March 2007 photo shows a bronze sculpture titled "Standing Shiva" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The sculpture is one of 16 pieces of artwork that the museum said it will return to Cambodia and Thailand that federal prosecutors say were tied to an art dealer and collector accused of running a huge antiquities trafficking network out of Southeast Asia. (Metropolitan Museum of Art via AP)

Cambodia welcomes the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s plan to return looted antiquities

Associated Press

Tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia, on Dec. 31, 2017. The human rights group Amnesty International in a report released Tuesday Nov. 14, 2023 has strongly criticized the U.N. cultural agency UNESCO and its World Heritage program for failing to challenge the Cambodian government’s ongoing mass evictions at the world famous centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

UNESCO urges Cambodia not to forcibly evict residents of Angkor Wat temple complex

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A Cambodian policeman directs traffic as a convoy of police vehicles that was reportedly carrying Japanese citizens who were taken into custody on suspicion of running phone scams moves along a street on their way to Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 11, 2023. Twenty-five Japanese nationals suspected of involvement in an online scam operation based in Cambodia were deported to Japan on Wednesday, Nov. 8, said Gen. Khieu Sopheak, a spokesperson for Cambodia's Interior Ministry. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia deports 25 Japanese nationals suspected of operating online scams

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Myanmar police hand over five telecom and internet fraud suspects to Chinese police at Yangon International Airport in Yangon, Myanmar, Aug. 26, 2023. Tens of thousands of people, many of them Chinese, have been caught up in cyber scams based in Southeast Asia. Local and Chinese authorities have netted thousands of people in a crackdown on such schemes, but experts say they are failing to root out the local elites and criminal networks that are running the scams. (Chinese embassy in Myanmar/Xinhua via AP)

China crackdown on cyber scams in Southeast Asia nets thousands but leaves networks intact

By Huizhong Wu - Associated Press

FILE -In this Sunday, Dec. 31, 2017, photo, tourists line up for stepping up Angkor Wat temple outside Siem Reap, Cambodia. Commercial operations have begum at Cambodia’s newest and biggest airport, designed to serve as an upgraded gateway to the country’s major tourist attraction, the centuries-old Angkor Wat temple complex in the northwestern province of Siem Reap. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia opens a new airport to serve Angkor Wat as it seeks to boost tourist arrivals

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

FILE - Thach Setha, foreground, a prominent vice president of the country's main opposition, Candlelight Party, talks to media members near the Vietnam Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 21, 2014. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued its verdict Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023, against Thach Setha, a vice president of the Candlelight Party, after finding that he had issued several bounced checks in 2019. Thach Setha was arrested in January this year, ahead of Cambodia’s general election in July. His arrest was seen by government critics as part of a broader campaign to ensure that the long-ruling Cambodian People’s Party would face no serious opposition in the polls.(AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

A leader of Cambodia’s main opposition party jailed for 18 months for bouncing checks

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet greets garment workers at Prey Speu village outside Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Aug. 29, 2023. Hun Manet headed to Beijing on Thursday, Sept. 14, on his first official trip abroad since taking office last month in a demonstration of his country's warm relations with China, its closest political and economic ally. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet visits country’s close ally China on his 1st official trip abroad

By Sopheng Cheang and Ken Moritsugu - Associated Press

This photo released by the Cambodia Mine Action Center, CMAC, shows unexploded ordnance at Queen Kosamak High School in Kratie Province, northeastern of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed the high school where thousands of pieces of unexploded ordinance from the country's nearly three decades of civil war have been unearthed. (Cambodia Mine Action Center via AP)

Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance found buried in ground at Cambodian school

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

In this photo provided by Kok Ky/Cambodia's Government Cabinet, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, during a meeting in Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. (Kok Ky/Cambodia's Government Cabinet via AP)

China’s foreign minister visits Cambodia days after incumbent premier hands off the job to his son

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Hun Manet, a son of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, receives flowers from his supporters as he leads a procession to mark the end of an election campaign of Cambodian People's Party, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 21, 2023. Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni on Monday, Aug. 7, formally endorsed army chief Hun Manet to succeed his father and long-ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen as the nation's leader later this month after their party sealed victory in a one-sided election last month. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia’s king appoints army chief Hun Manet as successor to his father, long-ruling Hun Sen

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra welcomes his guests for the wedding of his youngest daughter Paetongtarn "Ing" Shinawatra at a hotel in Hong Kong on March 22, 2019. Thaksin attended a birthday party for outgoing Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen in Phnom Penh, according to video posted online Sunday, Aug. 6, 2023, a day after Thaksin said he would delay plans to return to Thailand following years of self-imposed exile. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Ousted Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra seen in video at Cambodian leader’s birthday party

By Sopheng Cheang and Jintamas Saksornchai - Associated Press

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) raises a ballot before voting at a polling station at Takhmua in Kandal province, southeast Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on July 23, 2023. Longtime Cambodian leader Hun Sen says he will step down in three weeks as prime minister and hand the position to his oldest son. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Longtime Cambodian leader Hun Sen to step aside to let son rule

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Hun Manet, a son of Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, shows a thumbs-up as he leads a procession to mark the end of an election campaign of Cambodian People's Party, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, July 21, 2023. Hun Sen says he is ready to hand the premiership to his oldest son, Hun Manet, who heads the country’s army. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen says he will step down in 3 weeks, and his son will succeed him

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen of the Cambodian People's Party (CPP) drops a ballot into a box for voting at a polling station at Takhmua in Kandal province, southeast Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Sunday, July 23, 2023. Cambodians go to the polls Sunday with incumbent Prime Minister Hun Sen and his party all but assured a landslide victory thanks to the effective suppression and intimidation of any real opposition that critics say has made a farce of democracy in the Southeast Asian nation. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

U.S. announces punitive measures over concerns Cambodia’s elections were ‘neither free nor fair’

By Sopheng Cheang and David Rising - Associated Press

Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, center, also president of the Cambodian People's Party, delivers a speech during his party election campaign in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Saturday, July 1, 2023. Two senior members of Cambodia’s opposition Candlelight Party have been arrested for allegedly teaching voters how to cast a null ballot in this month's general election, becoming the first people to be arrested under the country's recently amended election law. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

Cambodia’s P.M. Hun Sen, in power for decades, cruising to another term in Sunday vote

By Richard S. Ehrlich

Theary Seng, right, a Cambodian-American lawyer, dressed in a prison-style orange outfit, greets her supporters as she arrived at Phnom Penh Municipal Court in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Jan. 4, 2022. The United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention said in a judgement late Wednesday, July 12, 2023, that while attorney Theary Seng had been convicted of conspiracy to commit treason and other charges last year, her only crime was “making two posts on Facebook critical of Hun Sen,” Cambodia's autocratic prime minister. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, File)

U.N. expert group calls for release of Cambodian-American human rights activist after investigation

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press

Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen, front right, President of Cambodian People's Party, waves to his supporters during his party election campaign in Phnom Penh Cambodia, Saturday, July 1, 2023. The three-week official campaigning period began Saturday for the July 23 general election. Eighteen parties are contesting the polls, but Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party is virtually guaranteed a landslide victory. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodia ruling party victory a sure bet as campaigning begins for general election

By Sopheng Cheang and Grant Peck - Associated Press

Indonesia's Adm. Yudo Margono, center, talks with Cambodia's Gen. Vong Pisen, second right, Thailand's Gen. Chalermphon Srisawasdi, third left, and Vietnam's senior Lt. Gen. Nguyen Tan Cuong, left, during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chiefs of defense forces meeting in Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia on June 7, 2023. Indonesia, the current chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said Tuesday, June 20, it was moving ahead with plans for joint naval exercises in September, the first-ever being held by the countries of the bloc on their own, which come at a time when several are taking stronger approaches to counter increasing Chinese assertiveness in the area. (AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati, File)

Southeast Asian nations move ahead with plan for navy drills near disputed area of South China Sea

By Edna Tarigan and David Rising - Associated Press

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen attends a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on Dec. 13, 2022. Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen has hinted strongly that he intends to step down as the country’s long-serving top leader when a new government is installed after July’s general election. The 70-year-old Hun Sen has served 38 years as Cambodia’s top leader, and during the last election in 2018 had vowed to stay in office for two more terms, until 2028. (AP Photo/Francois Mori) **FILE**

Eyeing the exit, long-serving Cambodian leader keeps it all in the family

By Richard S. Ehrlich - Special to The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Kok Ky/Cambodia's Government Cabinet, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, center right, prays together with his minister of Culture and Fine Arts Phoeung Sackona, center left, in front of a sandstone statue at Peace Palace, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Friday, March 17, 2023. Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures. (Kok Ky/Cambodia's Government Cabinet via AP)

Cambodia celebrates return of ‘priceless’ stolen artifacts

By Sopheng Cheang - Associated Press