“In this world, no matter what country you go to, everything is under the table.” That is what Katsutoshi Ozawa, a manager from Kanagawa Prefecture, was told by director of the Intractable Disease Patient Support Association, a nonprofit organization that helps facilitate organ transplants.

Prime Minister Hun Sen hit back yesterday at suggestions that he would consider postponing this year’s elections, saying they will go on as scheduled “no matter what happens” – an apparent effort to clarify his remarks in a speech the day before that an election cannot be held “in a chaotic country”.