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...anymore. Nowadays, faced with the discomfort of these roads and bridges, most tourists limit themselves to two or three days exploring Angkor Wat and other sites within easy reach of Siem Reap and its proliferating hotels. If your idea of Cambodian magic is a scrum for vantage points, against the deflating sound of clicking cameras and revving tour coaches, and curtailed by the need to be back at the hotel bar by nightfall, then fine. But if you want to leave the tourist pack behind, you have no choice but to hit the awful dirt...
...Given Cambodia's reputation for being politically dysfunctional, Dillon had surprisingly little difficulty securing permits and permissions from the local Culture Ministry. The country's cultural czars were irked a couple of years ago when Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, which was partly shot in Angkor Wat, mistakenly showed people wearing Vietnamese hats, not Cambodian ones?an unwelcome reminder of Cambodia's historic enemies. But besides trimming a few ultra-violent scenes, Dillon was required to do little more than translate the script for curious officials. "I was afraid of censorship, but they seemed more concerned that the movie was truthful...
...will seek to rehabilitate participants in the 1994 genocide before they return home. Moscow Russia deported American computer programmer Megan McRee, 35, accusing her of establishing contacts with Islamic terrorists. Phnom Penh Anti-Thai riots rocked Cambodia's capital after false reports that a Thai actress claimed the Angkor Wat temples actually belong to Thailand. Hyderabad An Indian research institute asked Iran to lend it a pair of Asian cheetahs, above, so it could clone the animals, now extinct in India...
...spark was lit when several Cambodian newspapers misquoted Thai TV soap star Suvanant Kongying as saying Cambodians were "like worms" and that she would only visit the country if Angkor Wat were returned to Thailand. Built between the 9th and 13th centuries, Angkor Wat is the heart of Khmer culture and identity?and a persistent snarling point between the two countries. That the temple complex has come under Thai control three times since the 15th century, most recently during World War II, riles Cambodians. To this day, they claim, Thais still covet the temple. Thais, for their part, take umbrage...
...politicians have long played to Khmer nationalism, and on Jan. 27, Hun Sen, facing general elections this summer, legitimized the rumors by calling Suvanant "Thief Star" and declaring at a ceremony outside Phnom Penh that the "Thief Star is not even equal to a patch of grass around Angkor Wat." Two days later, fictitious rumors that Thais were killing Cambodians in Bangkok inflamed the Phnom Penh...