Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni (R) greets Prime Minister Hun Sen (2nd L) as president of the National Assembly Heng Samrin (C) smiles during the Water Festival in Phnom Penh on November 1, 2009. The Water Festival is one of the main festivals celebrated by Cambodian people from November 1 to 3 and attracts thousands of people from the country side to the Cambodian capital. Getty Images logo Getty Images 1 month ago

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni (R) greets Prime Minister Hun Sen (2nd L) as president of the National Assembly Heng Samrin (C) smiles during the Water Festival in Phnom Penh on November 1, 2009. The Water Festival is one of the main festivals celebrated by Cambodian people from November 1 to 3 and attracts thousands of people from the country side to the Cambodian capital.

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  1. Cambodian Pime Minister Hun Sen and Cambodian Foreign Minister Hor Namhong (L) at the 15th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) meeting in Cha-am, Thailand October 24, 2009. In a slap in the face to Thailand's rulers, Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun offered fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra a job as economic adviser. Thaksin, ousted in a 2006 coup, heavily influences a red-shirted, anti-government protest movement from self-imposed exile in Dubai. Thailand is seeking to extradite him to serve a jail term for corruption.
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  3. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) hugs fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  4. Siwarak Chothipong, front left, a former Thai airline employee convicted of spying on Thaksin Shinawatra, walks with his mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom, front right, out of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's residence in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Dec. 14, 2009. The Thai man pardoned for spying has been released to the custody of his mother and Thai opposition politicians and will fly home Monday.
  5. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) hugs fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  6. Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) hugs fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra during a meeting at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Thaksin returned to Cambodia on Sunday, a month after a visit that sparked a diplomatic row when the Cambodian government refused Bangkok's request to extradite him.
  7. Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) shakes hands with Siwarak Chuthipongse's mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Siwarak, a Thai engineer working for Cambodian air traffic control who had been found guilty of spying for leaking fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra's flight details to the Thai embassy, was pardoned last week after a request to Cambodia's king from Thaksin and others, according to a Cambodian minister speaking at the time. Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan said Siwarak would be officially freed on Monday at Hun Sen's residence.
  8. Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen (L) poses with Siwarak Chuthipongse (C) and his mother Simarak Na Nakhon Panom (R) at his house in Phnom Penh December 14, 2009. Siwarak, a Thai engineer working for Cambodian air traffic control who had been found guilty of spying for leaking fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra's flight details to the Thai embassy, was pardoned last week after a request to Cambodia's king from Thaksin and others, according to a Cambodian minister speaking at the time. Cambodian government spokesman Phay Siphan said Siwarak would be officially freed on Monday at Hun Sen's residence.
  9. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni (R) greets Prime Minister Hun Sen (2nd L) as president of the National Assembly Heng Samrin (C) smiles during the Water Festival in Phnom Penh on November 1, 2009. The Water Festival is one of the main festivals celebrated by Cambodian people from November 1 to 3 and attracts thousands of people from the country side to the Cambodian capital.

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