A lot stabler these days. Four months after a general election, it has a new coalition government.
More international aid is forthcoming.
Except for a handful of hardliners, the Khmer Rouge have disbanded or surrendered. Cambodia even boasts an elected opposition headed by the former finance minister, Sam Rainsy. The day after he talked to Prime Minister Hun Sen , Special Correspondent Dominic Faulder met with Rainsy, 50. Yesterday I spoke with Hun Sen, and it was a bit like talking to a born again democrat. I think he has put on new clothes, learned to speak as a democrat.