Bernard Krisher, an idealistic, driven journalist who founded Cambodia’s first English-language daily newspaper and, as a philanthropist, established a hospital, an orphanage and hundreds of schools around Cambodia, died March 5 in Tokyo. He was 87.
BANGKOK — Prem Tinsulanonda, an army commander in chief who served as prime minister of Thailand and later became head of the influential Privy Council of the king, died Sunday in Bangkok. He was 98.
BANGKOK — Ly Tong, a South Vietnamese air force veteran who dropped anti-Communist leaflets over Vietnam from hijacked planes long after the war’s end, playing out the fantasies of many defeated soldiers of the south, died Saturday in San Diego. He was 74.
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