Former Cambodian Prime Minister Pen Sovann passed away. He was 80. Ovann was the country’s first post-Khmer Rouge prime minister. He was removed from power by the Vietnamese in 1981 and he was imprisoned for 10 years in Hanoi. He founded the Cambodian National Sustaining Party, which took part in the 1998 election but did not win a seat in parliament. He joined the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party in 2012 and won a parliamentary seat in the last general election in 2013.