2025 Southeast Asian Games Mai, Chonburi, and Songkhla. Six days later, the Philippines, through the Philippine Olympic Committee president Peping Cojuangco, confirmed that the country will host the 2019 Games, after Cojuangco wrote Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte and appealed for reconsideration. On 18 August 2017, the SEAGF meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia confirmed that Thailand would host the Southeast Asian Games in 2025, such as the Philippines in 2019, Vietnam in 2021, Cambodia in 2023, and Laos in 2027. On 2 September 2016, Ubon Ratchathani Governor, Somsak Changtrakul and the bid committee announced that Ubon Ratchathani will bid the 33rd Southeast Asian Games and
Cambodia provided no protection to whistle-blowers, and whistle-blowers can be jailed for up to 6 months if they report corruption that cannot be proven. The foreign relations of Cambodia are handled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Prak Sokhon. Cambodia is a member of the United Nations, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. It is a member of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), ASEAN, and joined the WTO in 2004. In 2005 Cambodia attended the inaugural East Asia Summit in Malaysia. Cambodia has established diplomatic relations with numerous countries; the government reports twenty embassies in the country including