{"id":66494,"date":"2015-12-07T05:13:49","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=66494"},"modified":"2015-12-07T05:13:49","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T10:13:49","slug":"n-korea-invested-museum-opens-in-cambodias-siem-reap-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/12\/07\/n-korea-invested-museum-opens-in-cambodias-siem-reap-city\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea-invested museum opens in Cambodia&#8217;s Siem Reap city"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/placeholdr.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66492\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/placeholdr.jpg\" alt=\"placeholdr\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/placeholdr.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/placeholdr-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>PHNOM PENH, (PNA\/Xinhua)\u2014After five years of construction, the USD24 million Angkor Panorama Museum, funded by North Korea, opened in northwest Cambodia&#8217;s Siem Reap city, a local English newspaper reported on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Cabinet Minister Sok An presided over the inauguration ceremony, the Khmer Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>Sok An said the 6,000 square-meter building reinforced both cultural and economic ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The project was signed in 2011, under which North Korea&#8217;s Mansudea Overseas Project Group will run the museum with the Cambodian government under a build-operate-and-transfer operation for 10 years until it is handed over to the Cambodia&#8217;s Apsara Authority.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need more tourist products such as this to attract visitors to Cambodia. The museum&#8230;is another tourism attraction that features, through the paintings (murals) inside the museum, how our Khmer ancestors went about their daily activities during Angkorian time,&#8221; Sok An was quoted by the newspaper as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The new museum includes works from 63 North Korean artists.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was well built in a picturesque place, surrounded by Angkor temples\u2014the pride of Khmers. We are proud that this museum was built to show Cambodian culture in the prestigious era of Angkor,&#8221; North Korean ambassador to Cambodia Hong Ki Chol said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am confident the museum will make a positive contribution to giving a comprehensive understanding of ideas about all the Angkor temples and promote tourism,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Siem Reap city is home to the famed Angkor Wat Temple, which attracted some 1.67 million foreign visitors in the first ten months of this year. (PNA\/Xinhua)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, (PNA\/Xinhua)\u2014After five years of construction, the USD24 million Angkor Panorama Museum, funded by North Korea, opened in northwest &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[35],"class_list":["post-66494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-travel","tag-original","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}