Mu Sochua
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Mu Sochua មូរ សុខហួ MP |
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| Vice President of the Cambodia National Rescue Party | |
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Assumed office 2 March 2017 Serving with Pol Hom and Eng Chhai Eang |
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| President | Kem Sokha |
| Preceded by | Kem Sokha |
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Member of Parliament for Battambang |
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Assumed office 5 August 2014 |
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In office 26 July 1998 – 27 July 2003 |
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| Member of Parliament for Kampot |
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In office 27 July 2008 – 28 July 2013 |
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| Minister of Women and Veterans' Affairs | |
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In office 30 November 1998 – 16 July 2004 |
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| Prime Minister | Hun Sen |
| Succeeded by | Ing Kuntha Phavi |
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15 May 1954 Phnom Penh, Cambodia |
| Political party | Cambodia National Rescue Party |
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Sam Rainsy Party (2004–2012) FUNCINPEC (1989–2004) |
| Spouse(s) | Scott Leiper (1984–2016) |
| Children | Thida Leiper Devi Leiper Malika Leiper |
| Alma mater |
San Francisco State University University of California, Berkeley |
Mu Sochua (Khmer: មូរ សុខហួ; born 15 May 1954) is a Cambodian politician and rights activist. She has been a Member of Parliament (MP) for Battambang since 2013, a seat which she previously represented from 1998 to 2003. She is a member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP), and previously a member of the Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) prior to its merger with the Human Rights Party. As a member of FUNCINPEC, she also served as Minister of Women and Veterans' Affairs in Hun Sen's coalition government from 1998 to 2004.
Sochua was born in Phnom Penh to a Sino Khmer father（Chinese Name ： 莫子凯） and a Sino Khmer/Khmer Krom mother（Chinese Name：沈珊） and received her early education at the French Lycee. In 1972, Sochua's parents sent her to Paris for further studies. A year later, she relocated to San Francisco to join her brother over there. When the Khmer Rouge took control of Cambodia in 1975, her parents vanished. Sochua would remain in exile for the next 18 years. While Sochua was in the US, she earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University and a master's degree in Social Work from the University of California, Berkeley before returning to Cambodia to help rebuild a society shattered by war.
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