BANGKOK — Chinese state media reports that Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk, one of Southeast Asia's defining leaders, has died in Beijing. He was 89. King Sihanouk led Cambodia to independence, but ...
Norodom Sihanouk, the revered and often mercurial former king and independence hero who helped navigate Cambodia through a half-century of war, genocide and upheaval, died Monday in Beijing. He was 89 ...
PHNOM PENH — Cambodians awoke Monday to the news that their country’s revered former king, Norodom Sihanouk, died overnight in Beijing. The 89-year-old leaves behind a colorful but tumultuous legacy.
He rode a wave of royalist sentiment to win a United Nations-sponsored election in 1993, but was later ousted in a power struggle with his co-prime minister. By Seth Mydans Musicians of a thriving pop ...
Norodom Sihanouk, the flamboyant Cambodian monarch whose intermittent rule was marked by shifting alliances, decades of strife and the near-destruction of his country, died Oct. 15 in a Beijing ...
Norodom Sihanouk was born in Phnom Penh on October 31st, 1922. He is the son of King Norodom Suramarit. As the former King of Cambodia, he held many positions in his life and is considered to be a key ...
Sihanouk abdicated the throne in 2004, citing his poor health. He had been getting medical treatment in China since January and had suffered a variety of illnesses, including colon cancer, diabetes ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results