TOURISM authorities plan to ban beggars and vendors from the most popular

temples at the Angkor site near Siem Reap, according to the Cambodia

Daily.

It reports Kuosuom Sar-oeuth, managing director of Angkor Tourism,

as saying about 200 beggars and drink sellers - mostly children- often harassed

tourists as they walked through the temples, and banning them "could make

tourists feel good when they are in our temples".

The paper said a

foreign tourist was beaten with a crutch earlier this year by an amputee who

asked for money but was ignored, according to local police.