Cheuang Sombounkhanh (; born 5 March 1955 – died 17 May 2014) was a Laotian

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...

. He was the governor of

Bank of the Lao P.D.R. Bank of the Lao P.D.R., located in Vientiane, is the central bank of Laos. It is also the bank of last resort, controlling the money supply, managing the country's reserves, and supervising the commercial banks operating in Laos. The bank is ma ...

from 1997 to 1999. From 2010 until his death, he had worked as a Minister to the Office of the Prime Minister. At the time of his death in a plane crash on 17 May 2014, he was a member of the

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of the

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of the

Lao People's Revolutionary Party The Lao People's Revolutionary Party (LPRP) is the founding and sole ruling party of the Lao People's Democratic Republic. The party's monopoly on state power is guaranteed by Article 3 of the Constitution of Laos, and it maintains a unitary ...

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