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Ancient Cambodian sites threatened by clearing


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Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts experts have expressed concerns that ancient sites are threatened by land clearing.

 

The sites were classified into three types – religious, such as temples and shrines; ancient burial sites, which have suffered from raiders seeking precious objects; and other ancient sites including villages, ponds, hills and bridges.

 

Voeun Vuthy, the director at the ministry’s Department of Archaeology and Prehistory, told The Post the ancient sites are being disturbed by public and forest land clearing.

 

read more https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ancient-sites-threatened-clearing

 

 
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The name will need to be changed from Cambodia to Little China anyway.

Feel sorry for this guy trying to preserve priceless heritage but it is all to no avail.

The Chinese will just trash it or build a casino beside it. They  have no respect for anything that is not theirs

 

 

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On 1/17/2019 at 5:13 PM, natway09 said:

The name will need to be changed from Cambodia to Little China anyway.

Feel sorry for this guy trying to preserve priceless heritage but it is all to no avail.

The Chinese will just trash it or build a casino beside it. They  have no respect for anything that is not theirs

 

 

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