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Over the 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...
...presence of the Montagnards is causing controversy in Cambodia. Prime Minister Hun Sen has said they are not refugees but "illegal immigrants," and might be a rebel movement set on establishing an independent state in the Central Highlands. Cambodia's King Sihanouk, in contrast, has strongly supported the asylum seekers. "The Montagnards are deprived of their ancestral lands, their forests, their houses, their cattle," he wrote in a letter of support last week...
...REAPPOINTED. HUN SEN, as Cambodian Prime Minister; by the country's King Norodom Sihanouk, after a political stalemate that left the country without a government for nearly a year; in Phnom Penh. Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party (CPP) received the most votes in last July's election but was short of winning the two-thirds of parliamentary seats required to govern alone. Two days before Hun Sen was sworn in, military police surrounded the home of party rival Chea Sim, acting head of state and CPP president, forcing him to flee the country...
...Although the murders remain unsolved, they have clearly spoiled hopes of an end to the political stalemate. A meeting organized by King Norodom Sihanouk to help break that impasse was called off after Chou was killed. In an article that King Sihanouk wrote for his website last week, he lamented, "Our country has become, alas, a country with neither faith...
...part of a team of artists that drew up complete architectural blueprints of Angkor Wat in 1969 for the Ecole Fran?aise d'Extr?me Orient research organization. Those blueprints are proudly displayed on a wall in his workshop, along with an award from Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk in recognition of his work as an artist. In a visitors' book, one tourist rates this alternative Angkor "better than the helicopter trip to the real thing...