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SIEM REAP (AFP): As dawn breaks, foreign tourists gather by the ancient towers of Cambodia's Angkor Wat, some of the lucky few to see the World Heritage Site with the crowds thin as the country recovers from the coronavirus.

With mass tourism kept at bay by the COVID-19 pandemic, now is the best time to be in the Cambodian city and gateway to Angkor ruins.

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Share Sacred Dancers of Angkor have now danced at and reconsecrated 42 temples across Cambodia and Laos. SUPPLIED Sacred traditions at risk amid Covid Mon, 19 July 2021 As one of the first spiritual dance troupes in the world – created in 2007 by Ravynn Karet-Coxen, a Cambodian refugee based in London – Sacred Dancers of Angkor is more than just traditional performance art. The dancers in the troupe are among the many whose livelihoods depend on a vibrant tourism industry and they have bee...

  PHNOM PENH, CAMBODIA -- Cambodia is shutting its most popular tourist destination, the centuries-old Angkor temple complex, to visitors for two weeks to help curb the countrys coronavirus outbreak. The closing of the world-famous site is the latest in a slew of measures the country is taking after the number of coronavirus cases surged in February. The Apsara Authority, the government agency that oversees the archaeological site, said that temporarily stopping local and foreign tourists ...

Cambodia closes Angkor Temple Complex to curb the spread of COVID-19 Times of IndiaTIMESOFINDIA.COM|TRAVEL NEWS, CAMBODIA Created : Apr 13, 2021, 20:00 IST As nationals across the world face the wrath of the second wave of COVID-19, Cambodia too is feeling the heat. The nation has now decided to temporarily close the Angkor complex, which is one of the most important tourist attractions. The Cambodian government has taken the step after the country has b...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Cambodia is closing its most famous attraction, the Angkor temple complex, to visitors because of a growing COVID-19 outbreak in the Southeast Asian nation. Cambodia has confirmed 3,028 cases of infection with the coronavirus, with 23 deaths, since the pandemic began more than a year ago, but the newest outbreak has […]

Asia Today: Cambodia closes Angkor temples as outbreak grows | 2021/04/08

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia is shutting its most popular tourist destination, the centuries-old Angkor temple complex, to visitors for two weeks to help curb the country’s coronavirus...

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s prime minister received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine as the country hit another peak Thursday with 126,789 new cases reported in the past 24 hours. “Vaccination is among the few ways we have to defeat the virus. If you are eligible for the vaccine, get your shot soon,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted. He received his first vaccine shot on March 1. India started its vaccination drive in January. So far, more than 90 million health work...