Nearly 100,000 tourists visit Cambodia’s Preah Vihear temple in 2012
Cambodia’s world heritage Preah Vihear temple greeted some 99,490 domestic and foreign tourists in 2012, up 79 percent from 55,580 visitors in 2011, statistics from the Preah Vihear provincial tourism department showed Wednesday. The Hindu temple had been a flashpoint of deadly armed clashes between Cambodian and Thai troops in February and April, 2011, as Thailand claims the ownership of 4.6 square kilometers (1.8 square miles) of scrub next to the temple. …
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