Thursday, April 30, 2009

Nobel laureate's freebie


Siem Reap's Angkor Palace Resort & Spa has been named as "hotel partner" for the third ASEAN series, Bridges - Dialogues Towards a Culture of Peace, organised by the International Peace Foundation, a Vienna-based NGO.

Up to 50 major Bridges meetings will take place in Cambodia from November 2009 to April 2010, jointly chaired by King Norodom Sihamoni and Prime Minister Hun Sen.

Confirmed participants include Nobel laureates for economics, peace, physics, chemistry and medicine.

As well, other eminent speakers and artists, including world-renowned pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy and professor Lord Anthony Giddens from the London School of Economics, will attend the event.

Angkor Palace's ‘partnership' in effect means that the hotel will stump for free accommodation and breakfast for the estimated 10 Nobel laureates and speakers.

They visit Siem Reap sometime between November 2009 to April 2010.

Source: The Phnom Penh Post, Siem Reap Scene - 30th April 2009
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2009043025601/Siem-Reap-Insider/Siem-Reap-Scene-30-Apr-2009.html