December 8, 2023
An ancient gilt bronze Buddhist sculpture that traveled a circuitous and legally questionable route from a rice paddy in southern Cambodia to the capital of Australia will soon be headed back to its homeland. The sculpture of the Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara Padmapani — the benevolent “lord who looks on from above” and “lotus bearer” — dates
READ MORECambodian officers say a reformed looter who directed a hoop that pillaged Khmer-era temples for twenty years, ending within the late Nineties, has died, however that they may proceed to make use of the testimony he offered as they work to reclaim extra stolen artifacts. The person, Toek Tik, 62, spent the final two years
READ MORECambodia reopened for absolutely vaccinated vacationers from abroad this week with out quarantine after a nationwide marketing campaign succeeded in attaining one of many world’s highest vaccination charges. The transfer was welcomed by determined tourism operators and employees, who’ve struggled to make a dwelling because the begin of the pandemic. “I rejoice at and absolutely
READ MORECambodia reopened for totally vaccinated vacationers from abroad this week with out quarantine after a nationwide marketing campaign succeeded in attaining one of many world’s highest vaccination charges. The transfer was welcomed by determined tourism operators and employees, who’ve struggled to make a residing because the begin of the pandemic. “I rejoice at and totally
READ MORECambodia has begun to press the Metropolitan Museum of Artwork in Manhattan to doc the way it acquired dozens of Khmer Empire antiquities that Cambodian officers, citing new proof, consider have been looted through the nation’s a long time of struggle and tumult. Though Cambodia has pushed the Met and other museums lately for the
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