Word: samdech
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...past 60 years, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk has worn many crowns: a bon vivant prince, an absolute ruler, an exile, a prisoner of the Khmer Rouge and, since 1993, a constitutional monarch. Now, Sihanouk is seeking a new role: retiree. The 81-year-old, affectionately known as "Samdech Euv" (Papa King), dismayed many last week when he released a statement announcing his abdication. "I am too old now," the King wrote from Beijing, where he is receiving treatment for diabetes, exhorting his people "to please allow me to retire...
...Khmer Rouge still refers to him by the royal honorific Samdech (which means Lord), and he remains the nominal leader of the U.N.-recognized Kampuchean coalition government-in-exile. Although Sihanouk, 62, has outlasted the Lon Nol and Pol Pot governments that replaced him, he is not sanguine about prevailing over the Vietnamese invaders who control his country. Says he: "The Vietnamese will never withdraw. In one or two generations, my people and their children will not know what they are." The prince resides in mansions maintained for him by friendly governments in China, North Korea and Thailand, and often...
...Royal Highness Samdech Preah Norodom Sihanouk Upayuvareach is a man of many parts, some of which he enthusiastically plays himself in his role as Cambodia's leading film maker. Last week he staged his nation's first international film festival, at which two of his full-length works, Shadow Over Angkor and The Little Prince, were screened, along with entries from 23 other nations...
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