AngKor Wat Temple Pictures Printed on Shoes
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Phnom Penh: Foreign affairs ministry’s top officials said on 23 Jan 2008 that they were contacting Vietnamese foreign affairs ministry to investigate the producers who printed Angkor Wat temple pictures on the shoes. Long Visaloa, secretary of state of foreign affairs ministry, said that printing Angkor Wat temple, which is regarded as Khmer Nation Symbol, on the shoes is looking down on Khmer Nation. Vietnamese foreign affairs ministry is doing the investigation on the case, he added. Svay Rieng Province report said that one suspected that the shoes were produced in Thailand before being imported to sell in Vietnam.
