Chan Sarun | |
Office: | Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries |
Primeminister: | Hun Sen |
Term Start: | 30 November 1998 |
Term End: | 23 September 2013 |
Constituency Mp1: | Takéo |
Term Start1: | 27 September 2003 |
Birth Date: | 18 March 1948 |
Party: | Cambodian People's Party |
Relations: | Haing S. Ngor (older brother) Chang My-Huoy (sister-in-law) |
Chan Sarun (also known as Ngor Hong Srun; km|ច័ន្ទ សារុន, ; born 18 March 1948)[1] [2] is the former Cambodian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.[3] He belongs to the Cambodian People's Party and was elected to represent Takeo Province in the National Assembly of Cambodia in 2003.[4] The younger brother of the late Cambodian-American actor Haing S. Ngor, and also the brother-in-law of the late Chang My-Huoy,[5] Chan is the son of an ethnic Chinese father and a Khmer mother,[6] [7] with ancestry from the Hakka of Meizhou.[8]