Former Khmer Republic’s Information Minister Chhang Song in Critical Condition
21 May 2021
Chhang Song, former information minister under Lon Nol regime in the 1970s. (Courtesy of Facebook/Chhang Song)
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PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA —
Former Khmer Republic official Chhang Song has been hospitalized in an “extremely critical condition,” his family said on Friday.
The wife of Chhang Song, who was information minister and military spokesperson for the Khmer Republic, issued a clarification statement after rumors circulated that the 82-year-old man had died.
“He is still alive,” Sum Sarun told VOA Khmer on Friday from Long Beach, United States, where the couple resides. “He was briefly [in a coma] before being saved by the doctors in their last efforts.”