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Water Festival at low ebb


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As the first day of the Water Festival rolled over Phnom Penh, the city was quiet. The riverside streets, once filled with teeming crowds from the provinces, were sparsely populated. If not for the workers setting up fireworks tubes on a repurposed river barge, there would be no indication a major holiday was taking place.

Prime Minister Hun Sen pulled the plug on the festival’s famous boat races just weeks ago, claiming dangerously low river levels. Pundits at the time claimed the premier was trying to prevent an influx of opposition supporters into the capital as the political climate deteriorated.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/water-festival-low-ebb

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