Cheng Heng
Cheng Heng( 10 January 1910 – 15 March 1996) was a Cambodian politician, who acted as the country's Head of State from 1970 – 1971, and was a relatively prominent political figure during the Khmer Republic period( 1970 – 1975).
Heng was born in Takeo Province into a middle- peasant family of Sino Khmer descent.
He went on to become a prosperous businessman and landowner.
He served in the civil service of colonial Cambodia, eventually reaching the grade of" Oudom- Montrey"( senior grade mandarin) by the mid-1950s.
His early political career, during the period when Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum party controlled the country, is relatively obscure: he entered politics in 1958, and served as Secretary of State for Agriculture in 1961- 2.
He was elected as the Sangkum deputy for Takhmau in 1962, but lost in the 1966 elections to a rival candidate, a young Sihanoukist doctor called Keo Sann.
Heng subsequently returned via a 1967 by-election in Phnom Penh, and by 1970 was serving as President of Cambodia's National Assembly.
Heng's levels of political support appear to have been limited up until 1970; aside from being President of the Assembly, he had previously been director of the main Phnom Penh prison.
Immediately subsequent to the Cambodian coup of 1970, in which the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, engineered Sihanouk's removal, Heng was made Head of State until elections could be arranged.
This was a largely ceremonial role, as Lon Nol had assumed most of the Head of State's political powers on an emergency basis:
Sihanouk, from exile, was to dismiss Heng as an" insignificant puppet".
Apart from giving press conferences, Cheng Heng was also called on to receive visiting foreign politicians: William Shawcross relates an incident during Spiro Agnew's July 1970 visit to Phnom Penh, in which the Acting Head of State was forced to contend with United States Secret Service personnel training their guns on him while he was attempting to welcome Agnew to the Royal Palace.
Nol subsequently used a political crisis to remove Heng and take over the role himself early in 1972.
In 1973, after American pressure on Lon Nol to broaden political involvement, Heng was made Vice- Chairman of a' High Political Council' set up to govern the country.
The Council's influence was soon, however, sidelined, and Nol resumed personalist rule of the deteriorating Republic.
In 1975, with the Khmer Rouge forces surrounding the capital, Heng's name was published on a list of" Seven Traitors"( also including Lon Nol, Sisowath Sirik Matak, In Tam, Long Boret, Sosthene Fernandez and Son Ngoc Thanh) who were threatened with immediate execution in the event of a Communist victory.
Heng fled the country on April 1 for Paris, where he became associated with the group of exiles centred on Son Sann.
Heng returned to Cambodia after the UN- brokered 1991 political settlement( the Paris Peace Agreements) and had some further involvement in politics, founding the Republican Coalition Party which unsuccessfully took part in the 1993 elections.
He died on 15 March 1996 at the age of 86.
Khmer Renovation
Khmer Renovation, also translated as" Khmer Renewal", was an anti-communist, nationalist and royalist political party founded in Cambodia in September 1947.
In 1955, it became one of the core elements of the Sangkum political movement of Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
The party is mainly significant because key members Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak would go on to lead the right- wing coup of 1970 against Sihanouk and his Sangkum regime.
Cheng Heng
Cheng Heng( 10 January 1910 – 15 March 1996) was a Cambodian politician, who acted as the country's Head of State from 1970 – 1971, and was a relatively prominent political figure during the Khmer Republic period( 1970 – 1975).
Heng was born in Takeo Province into a middle- peasant family of Sino Khmer descent.
He went on to become a prosperous businessman and landowner.
He served in the civil service of colonial Cambodia, eventually reaching the grade of" Oudom- Montrey"( senior grade mandarin) by the mid-1950s.
His early political career, during the period when Prince Norodom Sihanouk's Sangkum party controlled the country, is relatively obscure: he entered politics in 1958, and served as Secretary of State for Agriculture in 1961- 2.
He was elected as the Sangkum deputy for Takhmau in 1962, but lost in the 1966 elections to a rival candidate, a young Sihanoukist doctor called Keo Sann.
Heng subsequently returned via a 1967 by-election in Phnom Penh, and by 1970 was serving as President of Cambodia's National Assembly.
Heng's levels of political support appear to have been limited up until 1970; aside from being President of the Assembly, he had previously been director of the main Phnom Penh prison.
Immediately subsequent to the Cambodian coup of 1970, in which the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister, General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, engineered Sihanouk's removal, Heng was made Head of State until elections could be arranged.
This was a largely ceremonial role, as Lon Nol had assumed most of the Head of State's political powers on an emergency basis:
Sihanouk, from exile, was to dismiss Heng as an" insignificant puppet".
Apart from giving press conferences, Cheng Heng was also called on to receive visiting foreign politicians: William Shawcross relates an incident during Spiro Agnew's July 1970 visit to Phnom Penh, in which the Acting Head of State was forced to contend with United States Secret Service personnel training their guns on him while he was attempting to welcome Agnew to the Royal Palace.
Nol subsequently used a political crisis to remove Heng and take over the role himself early in 1972.
In 1973, after American pressure on Lon Nol to broaden political involvement, Heng was made Vice- Chairman of a' High Political Council' set up to govern the country.
The Council's influence was soon, however, sidelined, and Nol resumed personalist rule of the deteriorating Republic.
In 1975, with the Khmer Rouge forces surrounding the capital, Heng's name was published on a list of" Seven Traitors"( also including Lon Nol, Sisowath Sirik Matak, In Tam, Long Boret, Sosthene Fernandez and Son Ngoc Thanh) who were threatened with immediate execution in the event of a Communist victory.
Heng fled the country on April 1 for Paris, where he became associated with the group of exiles centred on Son Sann.
Heng returned to Cambodia after the UN- brokered 1991 political settlement( the Paris Peace Agreements) and had some further involvement in politics, founding the Republican Coalition Party which unsuccessfully took part in the 1993 elections.
He died on 15 March 1996 at the age of 86.
Ann Purmell
Ann Purmell( born November 15, 1953 in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an American children's book author.
Her first book," Apple Cider- Making Days" was published in 2003 and was followed by" Where Wild Babies Sleep" in 2003.
Her next book" Christmas Tree Farm" won the 2007 Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's Children's Literature Award.
The award goes to children's books with an agricultural subject.
Her 2008" Maple Syrup Season" continued with her agricultural themes.
Purmell was a psychiatric nurse for children, having received her nursing degree from Eastern Michigan University in 1979.
Purmell is married to a dentist and has two children.
Thomas Shaftoe Robertson
Born at Alford on 2nd August 1765 the son of James Shaftoe Robertson( 1723- 1780) and Ann Fowler( 1741- 1803).
William and Ann
Several sailing ships have been named William and Ann:
Sisowath Sirik Matak
Sisowath Sirik Matak( January 22, 1914 April 21, 1975) was a member of the Cambodian royal family, under the House of Sisowath.
Sirik Matak was mainly notable for his involvement in Cambodian politics, particularly for his involvement in the 1970 right- wing coup against his cousin, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, and for his subsequent establishment, along with Lon Nol, of the Khmer Republic.
Autrefois, Maison Privée
Autrefois, Maison Privée is a pictorial book by Bill Burke which includes an essay by Bernard B. Fall and a letter by Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak.
The title means" once a private house".
The book refers to the prevalent reappropriation of once- private houses for municipal and government use.
David Ji
David Longfen Ji is an American businessman who co-founded Apex Digital, an electronics manufacturer.
In 2004, he was arrested in China following a dispute with Sichuan Changhong Electric, a supplier owned by the city of Mianyang and the province of Sichuan.
Changhong accused him of defrauding them through bad checks.
Ji was taken, according to an account by his lawyer, to the senior management and told, "I decide whether you live or die."
He has been held in China without charges.
Ji's case highlighted an "implicit racism" in dealings with American businessmen.
As a U.S. citizen he was not granted the same treatment by authorities as non-ethnically Chinese businessmen sharing the same nationality.
Robin Gloag
Robin Nicol Gloag( 1943 – 5 December 2007) was one of the founders, with Brian Souter and Ann Gloag, of Stagecoach Group, one of the UK's largest transport businesses.

Question: Were Sisowath Sirik Matak and Ann Purmell of the same nationality?
Answer: no