PHNOM PENH -- Encased in a teardrop of glass fixed to an elaborately decorated gold-colored pedestal, Cambodia's first drops of oil were memorialized at a ceremony on Wednesday, six months after being extracted from beneath the Gulf of Thailand.
Presided over by Cambodia's ministers for energy and defense, the long-planned event praised Prime Minister Hun Sen, to whom ultimate credit was given for realizing the country's decadeslong ambitions to pump petroleum.
