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  1. Haing Somnang Ngor was born on March 22, 1940, in Samrong Yong, a village in Cambodia, then part of French Indochina. [1] [2] His mother was Khmer, and his father was of Chinese descent. [3] Ngor trained as a gynecologist and obstetrician, practicing in Phnom Penh before the capture of the city by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in 1975. He had to ...

  2. Feb 25, 2016 · Officially, three teenaged members of the Oriental Lazy Boyz gang were convicted of Ngor’s murder, but many in Cambodia believe his assassination was ordered by Pol Pot, who led the Khmer Rouge.

  3. Haing Somnang Ngor was born in Samrong Young (in 1940, French Indochina), Bati district, now Takeo province, Cambodia, he trained as a surgeon and gynecologist. He was practicing in the capital, Phnom Penh, in 1975 when Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge seized control of the country and proclaimed it Democratic Kampuchea.

  4. Haing Somnang Ngor was born on March 22, 1940, in Samrong Yong, a village in Cambodia, then part of French Indochina. His mother was Khmer, and his father was of Chinese descent. Ngor trained as a gynecologist and obstetrician, practicing in Phnom Penh before the capture of the city by Pol Pot 's Khmer Rouge in 1975.

  5. Haing Somnang Ngor ( Khmer: ហាំង សំណាង ង៉ោ; March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian-born American actor. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Dith Pran in the biographical drama film The Killing Fields (1984). He was murdered in Los Angeles in 1996.

  6. Mar 19, 2023 · Haing Somnang Ngor is a Cambodian-American gynecologist, obstetrician, actor, and author. He is best remembered when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in 1985 for his first performance in The Field of Death, in which he played the role of Cambodian journalist and refugee Dith Pran.

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  8. During the French colonial period, Cambodia was a sleepy backwater ruled by feudal lords and dominated by Buddhism. Most people—Khmer and French alike—were not even aware of the Khmer past until the French located Angkor Wat under a tangle of jungle.

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