The remains of Norodom Sihanouk was interred in a stupa in the Royal Palace's Silver Pagoda on Saturday. (Xinhua/Sovannara) Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni holds a diamond-studded gold urn ...

PHNOM PENH — A golden float carrying the ashes of former Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk was paraded through the streets of Phnom Penh on Friday, destined for the Silver Pagoda at the Royal ...

The remains of King Father Norodom Sihanouk will be interred at the Royal Palace’s Silver Pagoda in a ceremony spanning July 11 and 12, Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith said yesterday.

He believes they were left at the Sihanouk Boulevard pagoda during the chaos before the Khmer Rouge took over the city in 1975. Urns containing cremated ashes – known in Khmer as kord – are usually ...

King Sihanouk had recently died and the Khmer nation was in mourning. The Royal Palace was closed, only the Silver Pagoda in the Royal Palace complex was opened to visitors. So I went in.

Sihanouk’s tearful widow Monique and son King Norodom Sihamoni symbolically lit the pyre. Smoke was seen rising into the sky from the crematory, an elaborate pagoda built specially for the ...

Then, as Sihanouk’s articulate voice blared greetings from loudspeakers on pagoda rooftops, platoons of “congressmen,” their credentials in order, congregated around the palace’s ballet ...

According to schedule, in line with his wishes, Sihanouk's cremated remains will be enshrined in a stupa in the Silver Pagoda in the Royal Palace on Saturday. On Thursday evening, approximately ...

Sihanouk's long-time assistant Prince Sisowath ... Twenty-year-old university student Sochakray Theng lit incense at a pagoda near the Royal Palace and said a prayer for the late king, before ...