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Top works
- Droit public cambodgien
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Scale Mismatches in Management of Urban Landscapes
· 2006 · cited 174x
- Urban Biosphere and Society: Partnership of Cities—Introduction
· 2004 · cited 14x
- Global knowledge networking for site specific strategies: The International Conference on Biodiversity and Society
· 2002 · cited 7x
- Cambodia Neutral: The Dictate of Necessity
· 1958 · cited 6x
- Managing the Megacity for Global Sustainability: The New York Metropolitan Region as an Urban Biosphere Reserve
· 2004 · cited 6x
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Quotes
- “It is easier to talk about such things like democracy, human rights and freedom. Democracy is just a phrase to be talked about in idle gossip. Democracy means food for the people's stomach, shelter, education, medical facilities and basic amenities and the freedom to move freely. Discipline is more essential in our society than democracy, though they have a need of both.”
- “I didn't choose to be prince. But I am a citizen [and] as a citizen of this country I have the right to enter politics. It is not good to make such a discrimination. We are part of the Cambodian nation.”
- “I personally am too passionate, I am too much of a politician, and too outspoken to be a reasonable and successful king...definitely, I am no candidate for the throne.”
- “It's difficult to be the King's own son rather than his adopted son. That's Hun Sen. Samdech Hun Sen, as an adopted son, has the right not to listen to the King. I, as his [natural] son, don't have such a right.”
- “On the contrary, it will be a big gift if I am not King. I do not believe my father is happy to be King. He continues to blame me for making him King. I am happy also not to be King. We look too much like each other. He was deposed and I was deposed. History will talk about my father being deposed in 1970 in a coup d'etat. History will talk about Ranariddh as the deposed prime minister.”
- “If I have one final word to say, I have to quote Singapore's Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew, when I met him after being appointed first prime minister. He told me this, 'You look like your father, you talk like your father, but please don't be like your father'. I think, what he said summed up my father. It is enough. With such an assessment, maybe it is not even necessary to write a book on Sihanouk and on me.”
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Key facts
- Monarchs
- Norodom Sihanouk Norodom Sihamoni
- Vice president
- Heng Samrin Nguon Nhel
- Preceded by
- Chea Sim
- Succeeded by
- Heng Samrin
- Monarch
- Norodom Sihanouk
- President
- Norodom Sihanouk
- Born
- ( 1944-01-02 ) 2 January 1944, Phnom Penh , Cambodia
- Died
- 28 November 2021 (2021-11-28) (aged 77), Aix-en-Provence , France
- Party
- FUNCINPEC (1983–2006; 2015–2021)
- Other political affiliations
- Community of Royalist People's Party (2014–2015) Norodom Ranariddh Party (2006–2008; 2010–2012)
- Spouses
- Eng Marie ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1968 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2010 ) Ouk Phalla ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2010 ; died 2018 )
- Children
- Norodom Chakravuth Norodom Sihariddh Norodom Rattana Devi Norodom Sothearidh Norodom Ranavong
- Parents
- Norodom Sihanouk Phat Kanhol
- Alma mater
- University of Provence
- Website
- norodomranariddh .org
- House
- Norodom
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Encyclopedic overview
Norodom Ranariddh (Khmer: នរោត្តម រណឫទ្ធិ; 2 January 1944 – 28 November 2021, UNGEGN: Nôroŭttâm Rôṇârœ̆ddhĭ, ALA-LC: Narottam Raṇaṛddhi [nɔroːɗɑm rĕəʔnaʔrɨt]) was a Cambodian politician and law academic. He was the second son of King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia and a half-brother of King Norodom Sihamoni. Ranariddh was the president of FUNCINPEC, a Cambodian royalist party. He was also the first Prime Minister of Cambodia following the restoration of the monarchy, serving between 1993 and 1997, and subsequently as the President of the National Assembly between 1998 and 2006.
Ranariddh was a graduate of the University of Provence and started his career as a law researcher and lecturer in France. In 1983, he joined FUNCINPEC and in 1986 became the chief of staff and commander-in-chief of Armée nationale sihanoukiste. Ranariddh became Secretary-General of FUNCINPEC in 1989, and its president in 1992. When FUNCINPEC won the 1993 Cambodian general election, it formed a coalition government with the Cambodian People's Party (CPP), which was jointly headed by two concurrently serving prime ministers. Ranariddh became the First Prime Minister of Cambodia while Hun Sen, who was from the CPP, became the Second Prime Minister. As the First Prime Minister, Ranariddh promoted business interests in Cambodia to leaders from regional countries and established the Cambodian Development Council (CDC).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Norodom Ranariddh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.