Prime Minister Hun Sen said that two former opposition activists – Hun Kosal and Yim Sinan – were arrested for incitement because the messages and photos they posted on social media “distorted information” regarding King Norodom Sihamoni and “damaged the government’s honour”.

It happens on a daily basis all across Thailand. The casual insults come from a sense of superiority ingrained since school days: “Thais are better than their neighbours, the Lao.”