Cambodian blogger Mongkol posted a full AP news article on ‘Tourism boom brings hope, worry to Siem Reap‘. The news headline tells readers what the reporter intends to tell his/her readers.

The steady boom has already transformed Siem Reap into a bustling town filled with luxury hotels and vehicles. Its streets are adorned with billboards promoting the latest mobile phones, pizza and burger joints and shopping malls. Several notable old buildings have been razed to make way for visitors’ lodgings, and honky-tonk strips have sprung up catering to low-budget travelers.

Plus: Angkor-Gyeongju World Culture Expo 2006 Begins Today! And World Culture Expo in Siem Reap, Cambodia.

Even though Angkor Wat is very well-known in the world and this wonder has attracted millions of tourists to Cambodia, this country is rarely catch the attention of the world. Today, as Cambodia is hosting the Angkor-Gyeongju World Culture Expo in Siem Reap, the city of the 7th world wonder, let’s see what’s in the news about Cambodia and how the world sees Cambodia.

World Exposition at Angkor

It will provide a place of harmonious encounter between Angkor Wat historic sites of Cambodia, one the world’s seven mysteries, and the brilliant culture of the millennial Silla. Combining the rich cultural contents of the world-renowned Gyeongju World Culture EXPO, the Angkor-Gyeongju World Gulture EXPO will make its mark once more on the world in 2006.

related posts:

1. The Road Ahead: Cambodia
2. Siem Reap: Ta Prom Temple
3. The Angkor-Gyeongju World Cultural Expo 2006