1. Khieu Kanharith is a Cambodian politician and former Minister of Information.
11 Facts About Khieu Kanharith
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Kanharith was born in Phnom Penh to Khieu Than, who was a customs official and his wife Lor Lienghorn.
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Khieu Kanharith was first elected to the National Assembly of Cambodia in 1981.
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Khieu Kanharith was jailed briefly in 1990 for suspicion of dissident activities.
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Khieu Kanharith served on the Secretariat of the Supreme National Council, the body representing the four Cambodian factions which had signed the Paris Peace Agreements.
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Khieu Kanharith was made Minister of Information the same year.
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Khieu Kanharith was elected to the National Assembly in 1998.
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Khieu Kanharith regained the title of Minister of Information in 2004.
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Khieu Kanharith was conferred an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Information and Communications from The University of Cambodia in 2011.
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Khieu Kanharith is an author and translator, and has produced an unauthorized Khmer language version of the James Clavell novel Shogun, which he has had printed with his own money.
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Khieu Kanharith translated Ben Kiernan's How Pol Pot Came to Power into Khmer.