1970 - He portrayed journalist and refugee Dith Pran in Cambodia, under the rule of the Khmer Rouge.
1979 - After the collapse of the Khmer Rouge, Ngor worked as a doctor in a refugee camp inside Thailand.
1980 - Left for the United States on the 30th of August.
1988 - He wrote Haing Ngor: A Cambodian Odyssey, describing his life under the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
1996 - On the 25th of February, Ngor was shot to death outside his apartment in Los Angeles, California, by members of a street gang who demanded the locket around his neck.