WASHINGTON DC Chhang Song, a wartime information minister, post-war ruling party senator, and self-styled ambassador of the Cambodian-American community, was born a writer. As a child of poor parents in rural Takeo province, he made chalk out of clay and used it to write the alphabet on crude.
Chhang Song, former Minister of Propaganda, Culture and Information under Marshal Lon Nol’s Khmer Republic regime, passed away in a US hospital on August 21, according to his wife Sum Sarun.
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.”