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Uploaded by on Apr 8, 2011

The Apsara were dancing goddesses, celestial figures, famous for their beauty, and once at the heart of Cambodian culture.
 
Now the traditional dance is experiencing a boom after nearly dying out during the repression of the Khmer Rouge.
 
The Khmer Rouge regime - in power between 1974-1979 - killed 90 percent of the country's artists of the time. Now, tourists are returning in their droves to experience Cambodian culture in all its forms. 
 
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  • @chanpenkai uh?. This is Cambodia's culture...please search the history once again.. am not being bias , but Thai is the one that took Cambodian culture and created into their own. That's why the Thai and Cambodia have similar culture.

  • beautiful!

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  • I love watching Khmer Aspara dances =)

  • THANK YOU EURONEWS LE MAG THAT YOU SHOW THAT IT'S KHMER CULTURE...THANKS FOR SHOWING THE TRUTH TO THE WORLD. THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS THE TRUTH.

  • @JohnnyChung8

    king fa ngum of lao grew up in the khmer royal courts. his wife was a khmer princess :)

  • Cambodia had ever been a colonial of Thailand, so you can't tell me that Cambodian created their all own cultures

  • why does Khmer and Laos culture looks a bit similar

  • @chanpenkai

    never!

    Khmer kingdom rose before thai kingdom. angkor wat is older than thai kingdom.

  • @chanpenkai I think u r wrong should be other word around in stead. lol

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