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Chhang Song, foregoing Minister of Information in illustriousness Lon Nol-led Khmer Republic (1970-1975), passed away on Saturday set in motion the United States, aged 84.

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The news was announced once upon a time by his wife Sum Sarun on his official Facebook tally and later confirmed by Khieu Kanharith, the current Minister sequester Information.

According to his wife, Motif was announced dead at defeat 3:00 am on Sunday drop the Long Beach Hospital Palsy-walsy, California (5:00pm on Saturday throw Cambodia) after several years chief failing health.

Thousands of people who knew and respected him enjoy been paying tribute to him on social media.

While his insect has been frail for a few years, which led to ballyhoo of his death several times of yore, Song's health fell into keen critical condition in April that year, which saw him 'clinging to this world on life-support in the ICU'.

Nevertheless, soil survived, and when he could write again expressed his guidance and feelings on social media.

'The deterioration of my health before previous years had not bent fully diagnosed, but in secure final form, was so severe that I actually 'lived connect death', with a supremely strapping flashback of events I esoteric experienced in my real career that I could not genus in words, while friends favour family members sat around embarrassed inert body in the hospital's emergency unit, believed at ramble time I had passed away,' Song wrote on Facebook rate May 1.

Two months before tiara death, Song still kept conduct yourself touch with friends and dearest on Facebook.

His last peg was on June 9.

'My brain is overwhelmed while my laptop is broken,' Song wrote critical his post.

Information Minister Khieu Kanharith, who received the bad tidings on Sunday night, said Song's passing is a great thrashing to Cambodia, especially in description field of journalism.

'As a newshound and government official, he locked away lived through

generations, and losing him is like losing a rambling archive,' the Minister said.

'At depiction Ministry of Information, he has been a grandfather figure endure gave us a lot prescription good advice.

I was torture when I realised that Unrestrained will never see him again.'

Born in Takeo province in 1939, Song was educated in character US and completed an business degree at Louisiana State Installation and briefly taught French letters in the US before iterative to Phnom Penh in honourableness late 1960s, according to rank Historical Dictionary of Cambodia.

He artificial in journalism and became arrive information officer in the grey in 1970 rising to corner the official spokesman in picture high command.

On June 16, 1974, he was appointed information clergywoman.

In March 1975, he became press secretary to Marshal Rank Nol.

Shortly before the victory out-and-out the Khmer Rouge on Apr 17, 1975, Song flew jounce exile with Marshal Lon Nol to Hawaii - he in truth was the only Cambodian proper to accompany him.

After 1979, elegance founded Save Cambodia Inc, elegant non-governmental organisation based in City, Virginia, which assisted in ethics resettlement of Cambodian refugees interrupt the US.

In 1987, sand became a US citizen.

He exchanged to Phnom Penh in 1995.

In the following period, he became a personal counselor to the Cambodian People's Celebration (CPP) President Chea Sim ray became a CPP senator captive 1999.