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MTV can now include social advocacy to its credentials list, as the MTV End Exploitation and Trafficking (EXIT) campaign gets rolling in Cambodia. This ongoing program aims to raise awareness and prevent the trafficking and exploitation of the youth from across the Asian region. A National Trafficking-in-Persons Prevention Roadshow is currently taking the iconic network [...]

Siem Reap’s Hotel de la Paix will be unveiling an exhibition dubbed ‘Seven,’ curated by Sasha Constable, the hotel’s resident artist and curator. The exhibit will showcase the works of seven artists who practice in different mediums, commemorating the seventh anniversary of the hotel’s reopening in 2005. The event will be the concluding exhibition before [...]

Siem Reap, the gateway to the famed Angkor Wat temples, ranks ninth in the list of Traveler’s Choice Destinations for 2012 by TripAdvisor. The awards, now in its fourth year, are based on the destinations’ popularity, taking into consideration travelers’ favorites and most highly rated destinations. London topped the list, followed by New York City, [...]

One of Siem Reap’s newest luxury resorts, Navutu Dreams, will be inaugurated on June 1. The boutique resort is owned by Manfredi De Lucia, Maddalena Morandi and Giovanna Morandi, the family behind one of the town’s favourite restaurants, the Italian hotspot Il Forno. The resort, which took several years in planning and a year in [...]

A new dining venture in the Pub Street by business partners and brothers Yem Sothorn and Yem Sotho is attracting expat punters. Roll up is a great addition to the duo’s restaurant portfolio, including its garden hideaway Palate, located near the Angkor Night Market. “Palate, we set up in a tropical garden. It’s a nice [...]

On Saturday, four chartered planes carrying over 1,000 Spanish tourists landed in Siem Reap – a positive sign from Europe during a period of economic instability. The 1,290 tourists were in a tour that saw one of the first direct tourism oriented flights from the Spanish capital. The four planes – one Boeing 767 and [...]

Cambodia’s Angkor Wat temples enjoyed a 45 percent increase in the number of foreign tourists to 639,800 during the first quarter of 2012, based on the recent statistics of the provincial tourism department of Siem Reap. South Korea, Vietnam and China were the top three nations that visited the world heritage site. About 132,750 South [...]

Philippine airline Cebu Pacific has finally launched the maiden flight on its new Manila-Siem Reap service. The flight departed from Ninoy Aquino International Airport at 7:45 p.m. on April 12, with Cambodian Ambassador Hos Serythonh attending the send-off. “We are happy that Cebu Pacific chose Cambodia to be part of its extensive Asia-Pacific network, as [...]

Six-time Major champ Nick Faldo has collaborated with Siem Reap’s Angkor Golf Resort to introduce grassroots level golfing to schoolchildren in Cambodia. The worldwide golf development program Faldo Series will come to Cambodia thanks to a joint effort between Sir Faldo and the golf course, with the first Faldo Series Cambodia Championship to be held [...]

Cambodia’s two largest airports enjoyed an around 20 percent year-on-year growth in arrivals in the first quarter of 2012, figures from Cambodia Airports showed. Siem Reap International Airport and Phnom Penh International Airport recorded a 25 percent and 14 percent increase in arrivals, respectively – a growth attributed by industry insiders to economic development in [...]