{"id":39323,"date":"2021-11-29T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/29\/prince-norodom-ranariddh-former-cambodian-pm-dies-aged-77"},"modified":"2021-11-29T09:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-11-29T00:56:25","slug":"prince-norodom-ranariddh-former-cambodian-pm-dies-aged-77","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39323","title":{"rendered":"Prince Norodom Ranariddh, former Cambodian PM, dies aged 77"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of royalist Funcinpec party was overthrown as prime minister by Hun Sen, who has ruled country as a despot ever since<\/p>\n<p>Cambodia\u2019s former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the king\u2019s half-brother who spent his later years in the political shadow of his one-time rival prime minister Hun Sen, has died in France. He was 77.<\/p>\n<p>The information minister, Khieu Kanharith, said he had received the information from the royal palace. The prince, whose royalist political party won elections in 1993, was ousted in a 1997 coup by coalition partner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/jul\/29\/cambodia-hun-sen-re-elected-in-landslide-victory-after-brutal-crackdown\">Hun Sen, who remains Cambodia\u2019s authoritarian leader today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/29\/prince-norodom-ranariddh-former-cambodian-pm-dies-aged-77\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of royalist Funcinpec party was overthrown as prime minister by Hun Sen, who has ruled country as a despot ever sinceCambodia\u2019s former prime minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, the king\u2019s half-brother who spent his later years in the political sh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39324,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39323\/revisions\/39324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}