Angelina Jolie makes surprise visit to Cambodia

U.S. movie star Angelina Jolie has made a surprise visit to Cambodia, media reports said Thursday.

The 31-year-old actress, who adopted her 5-year-old son Maddox from Cambodia, is funding a nature conservation project in the country. Angelina Jolie briefly visited officials in Pailin, a former Khmer Rouge stronghold in northwestern Cambodia, said Keut Sothea, a deputy governor for the Pailin municipality.

He said Angelina Jolie had a brief discussion about a forest conservation project near Pailin with Ieng Vuth, another municipality deputy governor and the son of former Khmer Rouge Foreign Minister Ieng Sary.

Angelina Jolie promised up to 1.3 million U.S. dollars over five years for a forest conservation program that was approved by the Cambodian government in 2003. It is not clear when Angelina Jolie arrived in Cambodia or who had accompanied her. She has been filming a movie in India in recent weeks.

Last week Angelina Jolie and her husband Brad Pitt became embroiled in controversy after three of their bodyguards were arrested following a scuffle at an Islamic school in Mumbai. Parents at the school had accused the bodyguards of shouting, "You bloody Indians, you bloody Muslims," when they came to collect their children after classes.

Brad Pitt apologised Friday to Mumbai police over the incident and left to U.S.