News - Angkor Wat
Elray Resources, Inc. (OTCBB: ELRA), a technically driven gold and precious mineral exploration company, is pleased to report to shareholders on its Angkor Wat Project in Cambodia.
By MARRIOTT, Bob Cambodia's vast Angkor Archaeological Park houses more than a dozen temples other than Angkor Wat, Bob Marriott finds.
The Vatican suggested an anti-Christian bias in the short list of candidates for the new Seven Wonders of the World. Only three Christian sites made the list of 21 -- the Christ the Redeemer Statue in Rio de Janeiro, and two Moscow cathedrals, St. Basil's and the Kremlin.
Some of the world's most treasured destinations are in peril. Many are being trashed by mass tourism, with an assist from indifferent government policies and greedy developers. Among them: _Easter Island.
By Ker Munthit Associated Press SIEM REAP, Cambodia -- Nineteen-year-old Ra Pheap is a garbage sweeper at Cambodia's world-famous Angkor Wat archaeological site and is keenly grateful for the influx of tourists to the centuries- old monuments -- it's because of them she has her $50 a month job.
