HEADLINE: CAMBODIA: Cambodian resort in Condé Nast Traveller’s “The Best Hotels and Resorts in the World: The Gold List 2024”
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CAMBODIA: PM congratulates Cambodian resort on inclusion in Condé Nast Traveller’s “The Best Hotels and Resorts in the World: The Gold List 2024”
Prime Minister Hun Manet has sent a message of congratulations to Cambodia’s Song Saa Private Island Hotel and Resort for it’s listing in Condé Nast Traveller’s “The Best Hotels and Resorts in the World: The Gold List 2024“.
Condé Nast Traveller stated that Song Saa Private Island Hotel and Resort is “Like many of the world’s greatest private island retreats, southern Cambodia’s Song Saa has all the trimmings of a tropical fantasy: there are stilted wooden pathways snaking to overwater villas, and private-pooled hideaways burrowed in the thick jungle cloaking the island’s hilly spine.
At breakfast, shoals of silvery fish shimmer like fine jewels in the glassy swell below my feet. And when the sun beams overhead, skinny palms leave shadowy patterns on the talcum-white sand hemming the snug, lounger-dotted bay.
Memento Maxima Digital MarketingMYANMAR: Myanmar ethnic minority fighters claim control of port town
BANGKOK, Thailand (AFP) – Fighters from a Myanmar ethnic minority armed group have seized control of a port town after more than two months of intense clashes with junta troops, they said.
The Arakan Army (AA) said late Wednesday it “completely controlled” Pauktaw, a town of 20,000 people close to a crucial deepwater port in the capital of western Rakhine state.
AA fighters briefly seized Pauktaw in November, shattering a fragile ceasefire that had largely held since the military’s coup in 2021.
The junta has used artillery and naval ships to bombard the town almost daily since, and strafed it with gunfire from helicopters, residents have told AFP.
New Google Earth images of Pauktaw showed a block of the downtown area reduced almost entirely to rubble and damage to several buildings near its harbour.
Several buildings in the police station compound were destroyed too.
AFP was unable to confirm the AA claim, and communications with Pauktaw remained patchy.
A source close to the AA told AFP earlier this week that its fighters were conducting “clearance operations” in the town.
On Tuesday the junta said “intense” clashes were ongoing in the town but has not commented since.
Around 18,000 people had been displaced from the area due to fighting, the United Nations said in November.
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