Centuries-Old Rituals Are Slowly Fading Away in Cambodia
Cambodia’s northeast is home to more than 20 ethnic groups or Indigenous People. They each have their own story and particular customs, from death cults to love huts, and they have specific languages, although nowadays rarely used.
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Archaeologists have unearthed six centuries-old sandstone statues at the Ta Prohm temple restoration site in northwest Cambodia's Angkor archaeological park, the Apsara National Authority said in a statement on Thursday.
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Performing artists celebrate 70 years of Japan-Cambodia diplomatic ties
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Rosalynn Carter helped me, and thousands of other Cambodian refugees, survive
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Cambodia’s Koh Ker archaeological site inscribed on Unesco World Heritage List
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I grew up living hand to mouth in Cambodia. I secretly enrolled in the circus when I was 13, and it became my lifeline...
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Circus artist Kong Viban was born in Battambang, in northwestern Cambodia.
Family of late U.S. billionaire agrees to return looted Cambodian artefacts
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The family of late American pipeline billionaire George Lindemann has agreed to return 33 looted artefacts to Cambodia, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, a decision described as "momentous" by the Southeast Asian country.
Silk Road, Chinese tea forest and Khmer empire sites vie for Unesco World Heritage status
Unesco is meeting to update its World Heritage list, with 53 sites, from Khmer empire ruins to a Yunnan tea forest and stretch of Silk Road, vying for inclusion.
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Silenced by Hun Sen’s regime, famed Cambodian poet could have been a national treasure. Instead he works a noodle cart 14 hours a day
Poet and former monk Chin Meas ekes out a living on his noodle cart in Siem Reap, but he still finds ways to express himself – when he has the energy.
Inside the effort to return stolen cultural artifacts to Cambodia
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It was Hollywood that turned the temple complex around Angkor Wat into an ultra-famous location, but the Cambodian site is so much more than a movie set.
Villagers celebrate traditional ritual to ask “guardian spirit” to bring good fortune and rain in Cambodia
Dozens of villagers on the northwest outskirts of Phnom Penh in Cambodia painted their faces and bodies as well as donned grass skirts on Wednesday as they celebrated an annual traditional ritual to ask a "guardian spirit" to bring good fortune and rain for their rice crop.
Return to Seoul review – Park Ji-min lights up mesmerising tale of identity and alienation
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For blind musicians, Khmer culture sings
Traditional arts were crushed under the Khmer Rouge. But a school for orphans helps pass musical and poetic traditions down to future generations.
An Australian Who Worked to Restore Cambodian Culture Dies at 76
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