Bernard Krisher, an idealistic, driven journalist who founded Cambodia’s first English-language daily newspaper and, as a philanthropist, established a hospital, an orphanage and hundreds of schools around Cambodia, died on March 5 in Tokyo. He was 87.
His death was reported on Monday by his newspaper, The Cambodia Daily, which quoted family members as saying the cause was heart failure.
In a long career that included 13 years as Tokyo bureau chief for Newsweek magazine, Mr. Krisher became a fixture of Asia journalism, specializing in exclusive interviews with figures like President Sukarno of Indonesia and Emperor Hirohito of Japan.
In full: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/20/obituaries/bernard-krisher-dead.html
