Norodom Arunrasmy Explained

Norodom Arunrasmy
នរោត្តម អរុណរស្មី
Succession:Member of the Senate
Reign:23 April 2018 – present
Reign-Type:Tenure
Regent:Norodom Sihamoni
Reg-Type:Nominator
Succession2:Cambodian ambassador to Malaysia
Reign2:April 2005 – 23 April 2018
Reign-Type2:Tenure
Succession3:President of FUNCINPEC
Reign3:23 March 2013 – 19 January 2015
Reign-Type3:Tenure
Predecessor3:Nhek Bun Chhay
Successor3:Norodom Ranariddh
Birth Date:2 October 1955
Birth Place:Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Father:Norodom Sihanouk
Spouse:Sisowath Sirirath
(m. 1970; div. 1991)
Keo Puth Rasmey
(m. 1991)
Issue:5
House:Norodom
Religion:Theravada Buddhism
Child:yes
Party:FUNCINPEC
Royal Name:Norodom Arunrasmy
Dipstyle:Her Royal Highness
Offstyle:Your Royal Highness

Norodom Arunrasmy (Central Khmer: នរោត្តម អរុណរស្មី; born 2 October 1955) is a Cambodian princess, politician, and diplomat. She is the youngest daughter of HM King Father Norodom Sihanouk and stepdaughter of Queen Mother Norodom Monineath. Her birth mother is Mam Manivan Phanivong, a Lao woman who was born in Vientiane, Laos and married King Sihanouk in 1949.

Life and career

Arunrasmy attended primary school at the Petit Lycée Descartes in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and attended secondary school at the Dominican International School in Taipei, Taiwan. In the 1980s she began her professional career in banking, working at the Bank of California in Long Beach, and later Siam Commercial Bank in New York. After the Paris Peace Accords, Arunrasmay became deputy director and then director of Cambodian Agricultural Bank from 1992 to 1997. She was also a member of the Cambodian Red Cross Committee and member of the ASEAN Women's Association (ASEAN Ladies Circle). She was selected as the Funcinpec party candidate for the 2008 Cambodian parliamentary elections,[1] she was the Cambodian Ambassador to Malaysia from 2005 to 2018 before being nominated to the Senate by King Norodom Sihamoni.[2]

Her Highness is fluent in Khmer, French, Lao, Thai and English languages.

Family

Arunrasmy married Major Prince Sisowath Sirirath in 1970, with whom she had three children: Sisowath Nakia, Sisowath Nando and Sisowath Sirikith Nathalie. They divorced in 1991, and she then married Keo Puth Rasmey, with whom she had two children.[3]

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Notes and References

  1. http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/6286001.html Cambodian Princess Norodom Arunrasmy wins premiership candidate of Funcinpec
  2. http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/4/nation/9570489&sec=nation Cambodian princess new envoy to Malaysia
  3. Web site: Vong Sokheng. Royalists nominate princess for PM slot. 18 October 2007. 23 March 2015. Phnom Penh Post.