PHNOM PENH: Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has agreed to pay US$5mil (RM19mil) over the next 15 years to set up a wildlife sanctuary in a former Khmer Rouge-controlled area of Cambodia, a senior charity official said yesterday.
Jolie, who fell in love with the war-scarred South-East Asian nation while filming the action movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, has already paid a first instalment of US$350,000 (RM1.3mil) to get the ball rolling, said Mounh Sarath, head of Cambodian Vision in Development.