Cambodia,Vietnam to build cross-border golf course
PHNOM PENH, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Cambodia and Vietnam are going to build a $100 million golf course straddling their border in a region heavily bombed by U.S. forces in their anti-communist war in the 1960s and 70s, officials said on Wednesday.
The "Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Golf Resort" to be developed jointly by Cambodia's Bada Investment Co. and a Malaysian firm called VXL will take five years to build and will have nine holes in each country, as well as a 450-room five-star hotel.
A helicopter service will be able to carry visitors from Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples to the resort, tourism minister Thong Khon said.
"After visiting Angkor, they can play golf before heading to swim at the beaches," he told Reuters.
Cambodia leased five islands in the Gulf of Thailand for $627 million to six local companies and foreign investors to build tourist resorts. It now has two golf courses near Phnom Penh and two near Angkor.
The southeast Asian nation is fast putting the legacy of Pol Pot's Killing Fields behind it, with economic growth in last two years at around 10 percent and foreign visitors climbing rapidly to the 2 million-a-year mark.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/f...6834998,00.html
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Nice. The good thing is that we won't need any lawn mowers since the wild pigs are really good at grazing. 
Wild Pigs are scavengers, and they will destroy your Golf Course in short order.
I wonder where the hotel is located? Is it on Vietnam or Cambodia side of the border? Because it cost more money to stay at the hotel than to play at the golf course. Still I think it is a waste of money to build golf course, I rather see a mechanize farm than a golf course. What a waste of land.
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Wild Pigs are scavengers, and they will destroy your Golf Course in short order. 
Says who?
Besides, I just got a new Bushmaster AR15 rifle. The best gun in the whole wide world... No, make that the whole gosh darn universe! I'll take care of those pigs!
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Ain't she a beauty?
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Cambodia,Vietnam to build cross-border golf course
PHNOM PENH, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Cambodia and Vietnam are going to build a $100 million golf course straddling their border in a region heavily bombed by U.S. forces in their anti-communist war in the 1960s and 70s, officials said on Wednesday.
The "Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Golf Resort" to be developed jointly by Cambodia's Bada Investment Co. and a Malaysian firm called VXL will take five years to build and will have nine holes in each country, as well as a 450-room five-star hotel.
A helicopter service will be able to carry visitors from Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples to the resort, tourism minister Thong Khon said.
"After visiting Angkor, they can play golf before heading to swim at the beaches," he told Reuters.
Cambodia leased five islands in the Gulf of Thailand for $627 million to six local companies and foreign investors to build tourist resorts. It now has two golf courses near Phnom Penh and two near Angkor.
The southeast Asian nation is fast putting the legacy of Pol Pot's Killing Fields behind it, with economic growth in last two years at around 10 percent and foreign visitors climbing rapidly to the 2 million-a-year mark.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/f...6834998,00.html
PHNOM PENH, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Cambodia and Vietnam are going to build a $100 million golf course straddling their border in a region heavily bombed by U.S. forces in their anti-communist war in the 1960s and 70s, officials said on Wednesday.
The "Cambodia-Vietnam Friendship Golf Resort" to be developed jointly by Cambodia's Bada Investment Co. and a Malaysian firm called VXL will take five years to build and will have nine holes in each country, as well as a 450-room five-star hotel.
A helicopter service will be able to carry visitors from Cambodia's famed Angkor Wat temples to the resort, tourism minister Thong Khon said.
"After visiting Angkor, they can play golf before heading to swim at the beaches," he told Reuters.
Cambodia leased five islands in the Gulf of Thailand for $627 million to six local companies and foreign investors to build tourist resorts. It now has two golf courses near Phnom Penh and two near Angkor.
The southeast Asian nation is fast putting the legacy of Pol Pot's Killing Fields behind it, with economic growth in last two years at around 10 percent and foreign visitors climbing rapidly to the 2 million-a-year mark.
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/f...6834998,00.html
It's a good news
i'll play golf with my friends Khmer
thanks for the information, SoCal
VietGuy7....................using an AR-15 on a Wild Pig can be bad for your health ! You might as well take the Golf Club, and hit the pig with it.
Put that toy water gun down........................Get yourself an AirSoft.....................REAL MEN play with AirSoft !
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You might as well take the Golf Club, and hit the pig with it.
I don't think PETA would approve.
Besides, I bet you're the kinda person who goes around clubbing baby seals, on Mother's Day! 
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