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• Giant Puppet Project fast approaching

  The Giant Puppet Project, which combines art and education and is one of the largest annual events in Siem Reap, is only a week away. Now on its sixth year, this year’s event is going to be the best to date, said artistic director Jig Cochrane. “The puppets are bigger than we’ve ever had before. [...]

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• Cambodia gets $16m demining equipment from Japan

  Cambodia has received $16 million worth of demining supplies and equipment from Japan, the sixth phase of a Japanese grant to the Kingdom’s demining sector over the previous 10 years. The grant included light and heavy demining machines, detectors, vehicles, tools, equipment, tents and other apparatus, said a press release from the Cambodian Mine Action [...]

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• Angkor Golf Resort to host Handa-Faldo Cambodian Classic

  The Angkor Golf Resort is set to host the inaugural Handa-Faldo Cambodian Classic on March 14 to 17, a move that reflects the growing golfing status of Siem Reap. Ranked as one of the world’s 1,000 best golfing facilities, the Angkor Golf Resort has been designed by former world number one Nick Faldo, who is [...]

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• Siem Reap Airport being planned

  The famed Angkor Wat temples continue to attract overwhelming interest, prompting Cambodia to look for means to accommodate the traffic within and outside Siem Reap – the gateway town to Angkor. The Kingdom saw 2.3 million visitors last year; around 50 percent of them visited Angkor Wat. Each day, about 7,000 people explores the Angkor, [...]

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• Fire scare near famed Angkor Wat

  A fire in Norkor Thom com­mune in Siem Reap on Thursday burned over 10 hectares of forest near the famed Angkor Wat temple complex. Sok Leakhena, deputy director of the Authority of the Protection and Management of Angkor and the Region of Angkor, said the blaze spread to within seven kilometres of the temples. “It [...]

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