Sar Kheng

Sar Kheng
ស ខេង
Kheng in 2018
Minister of Interior
In office
3 February 1992 – 22 August 2023
Prime MinisterHun Sen
Norodom Ranariddh
Ung Huot
Co-MinisterYou Hockry (1993–2004)
Norodom Sirivudh (2004–2006)
Succeeded bySar Sokha
Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia
In office
3 February 1992 – 22 August 2023
Prime MinisterHun Sen
Norodom Ranariddh
Ung Huot
Vice President of the Cambodian People's Party
Assumed office
20 June 2015
PresidentHun Sen
Serving withSay Chhum
Tea Banh
Men Sam An
Hun Manet
Preceded byHun Sen
Majority Leader of the National Assembly
In office
22 January 2015 – 31 January 2017
Prime MinisterHun Sen
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byPosition abolished
Member of Parliament
for Battambang
Assumed office
14 June 1993
Chairman of National Committee for Counter Trafficking in Person, Cambodia[1]
In office
2009 – 22 August 2023
Personal details
Born (1951-01-15) 15 January 1951 (age 73)
Prey Veng, Cambodia, French Indochina
Political partyCambodian People's Party
SpouseNhem Sakhan[2]
Children3, including Sar Sokha

Sar Kheng (Khmer: ស ខេង; born 15 January 1951) is a Cambodian politician. He is the vice president of the ruling Cambodian People's Party and served as Minister of the Interior and deputy prime minister from 1992 to 2023.[3] He also represents the province of Battambang in the Cambodian Parliament.[4] Kheng has been the Minister of the Interior since 1992. Until March 2006, he shared the position with FUNCINPEC party member You Hockry as co-Ministers of the Interior, but then became sole interior minister in a cabinet reshuffle as FUNCINPEC ended its coalition with the CPP. He left office as interior minister in 2023 and was succeeded by his son, Sar Sokha.

  1. ^ "Busts on human trafficking doublen". Retrieved 12 July 2017.
  2. ^ "ឧបនាយករដ្ឋមន្ត្រី ស ខេង ធ្វើពិធីសូត្រនិមន្តបង្សុកូល និងរាប់បាត្រព្រះសង្ឃ ក្នុងឱកាសចូលឆ្នាំថ្មី". The National Committee for Sub-National Democratic Development. Government of Cambodia. Retrieved 8 November 2015.
  3. ^ "Photo 8. H.E. Sar Kheng, Deputy Prime Minister Cambodia, and Vice-Minister of MIC Japan". stat.go.jp. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  4. ^ "MEMBERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Fifth Legislature (2013–2018)". Royal Embassy of Cambodia to the United Kingdom. Retrieved 29 November 2015.