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Angkor Wat
Then India, Tibet and the Potala Palace, Burma and the Burma Road, and, of course, the Khmer Empire and Cambodia ... The Galápagos isles and Angkor held the top two spots. Eight years later ...
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The Legacy of Angkor
Images of the twelfth century temple known today as Angkor Wat have appeared on every Cambodian flag since the country gained its independence from France in l953. Cambodia is the only nation in ...
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151 wartime photos of Angkor ruins found at university in Kyoto
The box was inscribed with Japanese characters that roughly translate as: “Cambodia, Angkor Wat photos, 150 sheets, Hanazono University.” Notes written in pencil on the backs of photos show ...
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Divining Angkor
At first it is no more than an umber smudge in the forest canopy of northern Cambodia. Beneath us sprawls ... came upon the lotus-shaped towers of Angkor Wat—the most elaborate of the city's ...
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Cambodia: A Historical Overview
Angkor Wat in Cambodia, today known as a World Heritage Site, is also a vestige of a great inland SE Asian empire. Asia Society’s purpose is to navigate shared futures for Asia and the world ...
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The human cost of developing Cambodia's Angkor wonder
Tourists are flooding to Cambodia's "8th wonder of the world", the ancient temple complex at Angkor. But the rapid expansion of the site comes at a terrible cost, as tens of thousands of people ...
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Cambodia's Angkor Wat visitor facilities reopen following South Korea-led renovation
SEOUL: South Korea's heritage authorities announced Friday (Jan 31) that a section of the visitor facilities at Cambodia's Angkor Wat has reopened following renovations using Korean technology ...
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Cambodia faces mounting pressure to halt forced evictions at Angkor Wat
The largest religious building in all of Asia, Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, draws around 2 million foreign visitors each year. It’s a source of income that tens of thousands of locals depend on ...
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Cambodia defends family relocations around the famous Angkor Wat temple complex
BANGKOK (AP) — Cambodia is rejecting allegations it violated international law by evicting people living around its famous Angkor Wat temple complex, saying in a report to UNESCO released Monday ...
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Restoration work on ancient 1,000-year-old library at Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat completed
PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Restoration work on the nearly 1,000-year-old southern library of the Angkor Wat in Cambodia's Angkor Archaeological Park has been completed successfully, the APSARA ...