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The top five countries visiting the country's largest cultural site are South Korea, Vietnam, China,
Japan and Thailand, showed the report of the Siem Reap provincial tourism department.
The temple greeted 339,530 South Koreans last year, up 23 percent year-on-year; 220,050
Vietnamese, down 13 percent; 184,965 Chinese, up 51 percent; 134,630 Japanese, up nine percent;
and 129, 660 Thais, up 153 percent.
Chhoeuy Chhorn, administration chief of Siem Reap provincial tourism department, attributed the
remarkable rise of tourists to the temple to the country's full security and safety, more direct flight
connections between Siem Reap City and other countries and broader tourism promotion.
"It is expected that foreign visitors to the temple could grow by another 15 percent this year," he told
Xinhua via telephone.
Siem Reap's Angkor archeological park is situated about 315 kilometres northwest of Cambodian
capital Phnom Penh.
An entrance fee to see the temple is US$20 a day for a foreigner, US$40 for a three-day visit and
US$60 for a weeklong visit.
Tourism is one of the major four pillars supporting the Cambodian economy. The others are garment
industry, agriculture and real estate.
Posted by Heng Soy at 2:06 PM 15/01/2013
Stirrings in the Asean pot
Jan 14, 2013
Shankari Sundararaman
The Asian Age (India)
The Hun Sen regime has been repressing political opposition against it and the
question of wider representation and participation in the electoral process
remains one of the most important areas.
As Vietnamese diplomat and former deputy foreign minister,Le Luong Minh, takes over as the
secretary-general of Asean andBrunei assumes the Asean chair for 2013, it’s time to
reflect on 2012 — a year when the regional grouping faced many detractions and was not able to make
any forward movement on issues critical to its members. While many may see Cambodia’s
chairmanship of Asean in 2012 as one of the most divisive, the fact is that Asean’s history is fraught
with such discord among its members. Since its inception the grouping has been divided on several
issues, including the Asian financial crisis in 1997, the avail flu in 1998 and Cambodia’s entry into
Asean.
But last year, regional divisiveness among Asean’s members was seen as
being orchestrated by Cambodia which did not allow issues relating to the South
China Sea to be discussed. Since July 2012, Cambodia’s role within Asean has become a
tightrope walk, with other members feeling increasingly let down, even betrayed. This
was evident during the Asean Summit of November 2012, when two issues — the conflict in the South
China Sea and the question of human rights — brought Cambodia at loggerheads with other members.
One of the main agendas for the November summit was finalising a code of conduct for South China
Sea, an issue pending since July 2012. Though China, during the Asean ministers’ meeting in July, was
keen to keep the issue out of the discussion, others, particularly Vietnam and the Philippines, were
keen to that their concerns be reflected in the joint communique. So it was decided that by November
there would be a more cohesive and concerted effort to address China’s aggressive posturing in South
China Sea. But in November, Cambodia’s Hun Sen government, as the Asean chair,
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