Stupid Apsara Authority

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Reahu was banned, it isn't any longer: http://reahu.net/

And the stunning Chinese girl and Angkor is a model for Wanimal (logo on the photos :hattip: ) http://wanimal.lofter.com/ some beautiful photos and some beautiful semi naked Chinese girls. :shock:
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^^ UPDATE ^^ Actually some girls are completely naked, but I think we'll all agree that it's very tasteful
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Update from Phnom Penh post

Nude photos draw Apsara Authority's ire

Racy photos depicting a topless Apsara dancer reclining amid Angkorian ruins have incensed the government agency responsible for Angkor Park.
Shortly after the photos hit Facebook on Saturday, the Apsara Authority launched an investigation, and yesterday released a statement condemning the images as a tasteless affront to Khmer culture.
“Angkor is a religious, sacred site for Cambodian people. This kind of behaviour is very insulting not just to our religion but also to Khmer identity,” said Kerya Chau Sun, the spokesperson for Apsara Authority.
The controversial photos bear a watermark for “WANIMAL,” which Apsara Authority officials said they believe to be a Chinese company.
An account for Wanimal on the Chinese photo-sharing site Lofter features a series of images of naked or partially clothed women in exotic backgrounds. The account administrators did not immediately return request for comment yesterday.
The portraits of the topless woman in Apsara dancer garb were likely snapped during a quiet moment at the Banteay Kdei temple, said Khieu Thy, president of the Angkor Tourist Guide Association.
“The pictures are really photos [at the location], not edited by Photoshop,” said Thy, who compared the images to pornography.
Like many Cambodian temples, Banteay Kdei contains numerous carvings and reliefs of bare-breasted women skirting between the realms of heaven and Earth. But Chau Sun at the Apsara Authority said there is “no possible comparison” between the stone antiquities and the modern-day interpretation.
“When you insult someone’s culture, it’s not art at all,” she said.
The Apsara Authority said it plans to submit a complaint after gathering more information about the pictures. Yesterday the agency was unable to identify the photographer or determine whether the half-nude woman depicted was Cambodian, however.
Officials at the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts said the investigation is up to the authority, while the Ministry of Information could not be reached yesterday about whether the photos could be considered illegal.
The government has previously taken issue with similar images. In 2009, it blocked an artist’s website when photos and paintings of scantily clad Apsara dancers offended the Ministry of Women’s Affairs.
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Rama wrote:Reahu was banned, it isn't any longer: http://reahu.net/
In fact, Reahu was the very first website to ever be blocked in Cambodia and has often been cited by the government as precedent to justify the blocking of other 'offensive' websites such as Khmerization and KI Media.
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A Cambodian just posted this rant and picture on FB.
It's really annoying and Shame that this nude been posting her sexy bodies smile emoticon
But if we look back and think about why would they do this ?? This is not good. . Long time ago since we born there no this crazy things happen.. Are they try to put our culture down??? So idiot there is no respect..
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Quick google image search reveals the model as Nadezhda Svitalskaya and the photo was of her shoot as Miss June 2013 in Playboy Russia. One of the links mentioned the photo shoot took place in India, they look the old temples from Cambodia to me, but I'm no expert on ancient temples, can anyone confirm whether they were shot in Cambodia or India?
http://www.alcagoita.com/nadezhda-svita ... june-2013/
http://thmeythmey.com/?page=detail&ctyp ... 2683&lg=kh
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Truth of it doesn't really matter. Just working themselves into a xenophobic froth. It is the new theme in Cambodia, and it will intensify.
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I agree. It doesn't help when the stupid stuff some foreigners do is constantly exposed. It's not like the local press has a "foreigner of the week" piece about your average level-headed expat or temporary NGO worker. All they see are nude foreigners on bikes, foreigners commiting suicide, foreigners on drugs, foreigners wither prostitutes and so on. I think most who know one or two expats know that such people are a minority, but it certainly doesn't help any of of us. This one is pretty stupid though. While I certainly think they shouldn't have done it, I don't see how one desecrating culture by doing tasteful nude pictures. Especially considering all the bare-breasted ladies all over the temples. But I agree with LTO: as time goes on, the anti-foreign sentiment will only grow and be more intensely voiced.
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remember taking my partner to myanmar in bagan... she wouldnt go inside the temples as she was on her period... shes vietnamese and part buddist....


i dont see why a topless woman in a photo shoot at angkor would be a problem.. theres hundreds of carvings showing the same thing... is has taste...

where as short parts and singlet is a bit poor taste...
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Part buddhist? Which part?
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the part when she visits temples, its like part time Christians who pray for forgiveness haha
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