Tuk-tuks and flags as Cambodia opposition eyes bellwether local polls
Tuk-tuks blaring pop music and flag-waving supporters of Cambodia's embattled opposition led a rally on Saturday for upcoming local elections, a bellwether for efforts to end the three-decade rule of strongman Hun Sen in next year's national polls.The June 4 vote in more than 1,600 communes -- administrative clusters of villages -- will take Cambodia's political temperature ahead of a general election in 2018 that is expected to go to the wire.The opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP)
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