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Al Jazeera
Politics
Kevin Doyle

‘No dancing in the streets’: Why has Cambodia banned musical vehicle horns?

Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Manet attends the 26th ASEAN-China Summit in Jakarta, Indonesia, in September, 2023 [Yasuyoshi Chiba/Pool via Reuters]

Having ruled with an iron fist for 45 years, Cambodia’s governing party leaders have a lengthy list of practices that have been banned and political opponents jailed or forced to flee the country.

Now the country’s newly-appointed Prime Minister Hun Manet, the son of Cambodia’s longtime “strong man” ruler Hun Sen, has taken aim at a new source of social unrest: musical truck horns.

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