Kampong Speu provincial governor Vei Samnang was born in 1974 into a family supported by his father’s work as a civil servant in Kanh Chriech commune’s Prey Pdao village of Prey Veng province’s Kanh Chriech district, but his family was forced to move to Kampong Thom province in 1979-1980 after the Khmer Rouge was overthrown.