Bun-Ly's slaying heightened tensions in a capital already troubled by a quarrel between Ranariddh's royalist FUNCINPEC party and Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party.
He partnered with stock trader Mark Messier and pharmacist Mike Havrilla, who both generated impressive short-term gains on Profit.ly, to publish a book and DVD series this summer about trading biotech stocks.
When Cambodia opened up to tourism in the 1990s, Ly -- who speaks Khmer, Russian, French and English -- became a licensed tour guide to earn more money.
In "The Sapphires, " an Australian debut feature directed by Wayne Blair, three aboriginal sisters plus a cousin who'd rather be white take their Supremes-ly exuberant Motown songs to U.S. troops during the Vietnam War.