Sep
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Fixture cancellation angers touring team
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The Football Federation of Cambodia’s decision over the weekend to scrap this Thursday’s scheduled friendly fixture between the Cambodian national team and Khmer Europe XI has enraged the visiting side comprising Cambodians living abroad.
The 2012 Metfone C-League Super 4 playoffs, which has its third place playoff on Wednesday and final on Saturday, will feature a significant number of national team players.
However, with the tour being months in the planning with many of the foreign-based players requiring unpaid leave from their jobs, the obvious fixture clash was somehow overlooked by the Federation until just days beforehand.
“Everyone in the team is angry because so much time and effort have been put in to prepare us for the match,” Battambang-born Australian Chan Tolson posted on his Facebook page on Saturday.
“So disappointed flying all this way for nothing.”
Khmer Europe will instead face 2011 league champions Phnom Penh Crown, who missed out on the Super 4 playoffs this year, in a friendly at 3:30pm on Thursday at Olympic Stadium.
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Sep
13
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Raffles Hotel Le Royal Phnom Penh
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For most tourists, a trip to Cambodia begins and ends in Siem Reap. While the amazing history of Angkor Wat is certainly a must for every traveller to see at least once in a lifetime, Cambodia is a country on the rise with appeal in other parts of the country as well. The capital, Phnom Penh, is experiencing rapid growth; for now, the low-rise cityscape is punctuated by only a few skyscrapers, but this will change as time goes on.
Travellers who are looking for an Asian experience recalling a more relaxed pace of life in the less frenetic times will enjoy a stay at Raffles Hotel Le Royal, Phnom Penh's premier hotel. The Raffles expertise in recreating the genteel ambience of times past is especially appropriate in this city, and the property is certainly an excellent base for exploring such sights as the National Museum Of Cambodia, the Royal Palace, the Silver Pagoda, and Wat Phnom, located just a few hundred metres from the hotel. Phnom Penh's lively riverfront restaurant and bar scene is close enough to be convenient but far enough not to be disruptive when at home in the hotel.
Now supplemented by a wing added in the 1990s, the original building's historic Personality Suites are named for other famous guests who have visited, including Mrs Onassis, French writer André Malraux, Charles de Gaulle, and Somerset Maugham. Regardless of location within the hotel, all accommodation reflects the history of the city in a chic and comfortable style.
First opened in 1929, Raffles Hotel Le Royal has seen some of the world's most famous people pass through its doors. One of them was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for whom the hotel's signature drink, the Femme Fatale, was invented. A special set of glasses with a unique shape was created for the Femme Fatale, which is a blend of champagne, cognac, and creme de cassis; the hotel's legendary Elephant Bar still serves the drink in glasses of the same shape used for Femme Fatales and no other drink. Another US First Lady recently stayed at Raffles Le Royal, though in her capacity as US Secretary Of State, Hilary Clinton had less time for sightseeing than did Jackie O.
No one should pass up a visit to Raffles' spa to take up the opportunity for a Khmer massage, which incorporates pressure-point stimulation into a treatment that also includes gentle stretching and muscle movement that leaves the beneficiary with surprising reinvigoration. Follow up a spa treatment with a fine dining experience at Le Royal, the hotel's deluxe restaurant, where the finest in Khmer and European cuisine is served to guests. Khmer cuisine is a superb balance of distinctly fresh and flavoursome ingredients. As in Thailand, Cambodia has a special cuisine reserved for the royal family, and Le Royal is the only restaurant in the country authorised to prepare royal cuisine for its guests. Less formal but no less appealing is Café Monivong, where a bountiful buffet breakfast is served each morning. Lunch and dinner are also served here, though the Sunday Personality Brunch is perhaps the most famous of its meals.
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Sep
13
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Human remains found at Cambodian pagoda
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Construction workers at a Buddhist temple in Cambodia have unearthed human bones officials say could be the remains of victims of the Khmer Rouge.
Eighteen skulls appeared to have been violently shattered, the Phnom Penh Post reported.
Workers at the Wat Kesararam pagoda in the town of Siem Reap said arm bones were found bound together with rope and leg bones locked together with iron cuffs.
Chief monk Sambath Ly Ye said the temple had been built on a former Khmer Rouge execution site.
Human bones had been discovered at the pagoda in the past several years, he said, many buried with handcuffs. The remains are kept in a small cottage behind the temple.
A construction worker said more bones were first discovered last week, and many skulls and bones, "some already rotten," were found this week after a few feet of topsoil was removed to build living quarters for the monks.
Work at the site has now stopped.
Van Than Peou Dara, the deputy director of the Documentation Center of Cambodia, said the center's research had found the land on which the pagoda is now built had been a security office, prison and killing site during the Pol Pot regime.
Siem Reap District Governor Tep Bun Chhay said the deaths also could have occurred in the Lon Nol era.
Some 24 killing sites were known to exist in the province, he said, where an estimated 44,258 people were believed to have died.
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Coffee colonialism in Laos
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13/09/2012 10:01:34
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Cambodia conducts child protection and training for tourism professionals
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13/09/2012 09:52:22
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Photographic exhibition on Vietnam opens in France
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13/09/2012 09:49:53
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Luxury Travel Ltd, Vietnam First Luxury Tour Operator and DMC, To Launch
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13/09/2012 09:41:26
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Vietnam-Japan Meeting 2012 to take place in Tokyo, Fukuoka
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13/09/2012 09:39:09
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UNESCO ‘Memory of the World’ title for Buddhist Woodblocks
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13/09/2012 09:37:20
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Pe Luong – a destination to experience Thai culture
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13/09/2012 09:36:00
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ASEAN nations promote tourism in city
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13/09/2012 09:34:48
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Exhibition features Trang An tourism complex
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13/09/2012 09:19:58
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