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Mao Ayuth, filmmaker who survived the Khmer Rouge, dies at 76 By Seth Mydans New York Times,Updated April 22, 2021, 2:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Mao Ayuth in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2017.QUINN RYAN MATTINGLY/NYT Mao Ayuth, one of the few Cambodian filmmakers to survive the Khmer Rouge era, during which most artists and intellectuals were killed, and who then rose to become secretary of state in the Ministry of Information, died on April 15 in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. He was 76. Phos Sovann, a spokesman for the ministry, said the cause was complications of COVID-19. Mr. Mao Ayuth, wh...

RFA Residents of Phnom Penh rushed to stock up on food and other supplies on Thursday as word spread of a lockdown ordered by Prime Minister Hun Sen to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the capital and surrounding Kandal province, sources said. News of the planned April 15-28 lockdown, which leaked before an official announcement could be made, quickly drove up the prices of commodities as crowds filled local markets beginning Wednesday night, violating regulations restricting social contacts. In a statement Thursday, Hun Sen urged Cambodian citizens not to panic, saying no one...

Phnom Penh locked down as Cambodia's Covid toll spikes Secretary of state for the Information Ministry is among the latest deaths Police block motorists from passing a checkpoint in Phnom Penh on April 15 as Prime Minister Hun Sen warned that the country was on the brink of death amid its worst coronavirus outbreak. (Photo: AFP) The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases is continuing to climb in Cambodia, claiming the life of a storied filmmaker who became a senior minister after the capital was locked down in the latest dramatic moves to curb the spread of the contagion. Government-friendly me...

Mao Ayuth died while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 on April 15. - PPP PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Mao Ayuth, a veteran filmmaker turned secretary of state at the Ministry of Information, has passed away while undergoing treatment for Covid-19 at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh on Thursday (April 15), according to ministry spokesman Phos Sovann. He was 77 years old. "I'm not sure about the cause of his death. He passed away at nearly 7 o'clock while receiving treatment for Covid-19," Sovann said. Ayuth, a resident of Boeung Raing commune in Phnom Penh's Daun Penh d...

Hun Sen Expresses Condolence for Filmmaker's Death, Warns Against Lockdown Violations 16 April 2021 VOA Khmer Famous filmmaker Mao Ayuth died from COVID-19 in Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on April 15, 2021. (Courtesy of Facebook) Share share PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA —  Renowned filmmaker Mao Ayuth was one of the two deaths reported by the Health Ministry on Friday, as Phnom Penh and Takhmau city entered the second day of a two-week lockdown. Mao Ayuth, who was the producer of “Sdech Kan,” was hospitalized at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital on April 5 for ...