BANGKOK (AP).- Thailand’s prime minister is defending his country’s decision to quit the U.N.’s World Heritage Convention. Abhisit Vejjajiva says the group’s consideration of a Cambodian plan to manage a protected temple on Thailand’s border would inc…
Photographer Bernard Faucon, a Pioneer of Tableaux Vivant Tradition, at the New Orleans Museum of Art
NEW ORLEANS, LA.- As New Orleans Museum of Art kicks off centennial celebrations, Bernard Faucon: The Most Beautiful Day of My Youth photographs are on display,through March 13, 2011. These 60 photographs depict one-day celebrations of a festive and pl…
Cambodia to Restore ‘Killing Fields’ Skull-Filled Memorial
PHNOM PENH (AP).- Cambodia plans to renovate the skull-filled memorial on the site of the Khmer Rouge’s former “killing fields” for the first time since it was built two decades ago. Now a grim tourist attraction, Choeung Ek outside the capital Phnom P…
Cambodia to Restore ‘Killing Fields’ Skull-Filled Memorial
PHNOM PENH (AP).- Cambodia plans to renovate the skull-filled memorial on the site of the Khmer Rouge’s former “killing fields” for the first time since it was built two decades ago. Now a grim tourist attraction, Choeung Ek outside the capital Phnom P…
United States Returns 7 Stolen Ancient Cambodian Sculptures
PHNOM PENH (AP).- The United States returned seven sculptures from the great Angkorian era on Thursday that had been smuggled out of Cambodia. Cambodian Buddhist monks blessed the artifacts during a handover ceremony at the port of Sihanoukville, said …