Cambodia Drops a Spot in Asean as Burma Reforms
THE ten-member Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) is used to fending off “interference” by the West in the internal affairs of some of its members. In recent years the human-rights record of the regime in Myanmar has been the tenderest of these sore spots. But as ASEAN’s leaders gather in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, for their annual summit between November 18th and 20th, Myanmar, liberalizing and opening up, finds itself flavor of the month in the West. Instead, it is the host country that is now the butt of more criticism. …
