Lork Kheng

Kheng was born in the Province of Kampong Cham in 1955. She was her parents sixth child and that had four more.^[1] The Pol Pot regime ended in January 1979 and afterwards Kheng who was a policeman's wife became a business person. She used her capital to give small interest-free loans to others. She went to work for the head of the Cambodian People's Party, Chea Sim, and studied at the Royal Administration School.^[1]

The Cambodian People's Party has been in power since 1979 and she became one of their candidates in Phnom Phen and she was elected in 2008 to the National Assembly^[2] and re-elected in 2013^[1] and she became the Chair of Commission on Public Health, Social Work, Veterans, Youth, Rehabilitation, Labour, Vocational Training and Women’s Affairs.^[3][4]

In 2025 Kheng was in South Korea where she chaired a meeting of the International Association of First Ladies for Peace.^[3]