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This week, we step into an ancient boat (at least, a reconstruction of one), mull over small brains and tools, and figure out a contested temple’s role in politics. This and more in today’s edition of rojak! photo credit: andy_carter Anton Diaz takes us inside the Balangay boat, which is due to set sail this [...] The economic downturn is taking it’s toll in visitors to Angkor – a 14% drop for the first four months of the year – and it seems to be causing a sense of alarm among the tourist sector in Angkor. Besides installing lights to extend the visiting hours to the temples, the Apsara Authority will [...] Following this week’s furore over the light fixtures at Angkor Wat, the Cambodian govenrment has sued the president of the Khmer Civilisation Foundation for spreading false information about the nature of the fixtures. The government and the custodian Apsara Authority maintain that the lights were installed into existing nooks and no drilling was done. [...] Cambodian officials have denied that holes were drilled into the walls of Angkor Wat for the installation of light fixtures, which will allow visitors into Angkor until 8.30 at night. The lights are also said to be solar powered, rather than tapping onto the existing electricity grid. Can any recent visitors to Angkor confirm this? [...] This week’s edition of Rojak has a Cambodian focus featuring replica temples, the Angkor National Museum, and the latest in Cambodian Studies. photo credit: saumilshah [...] A heritage conservtion specialist has appealed to the Cambodian PM about the recent installation of lights at Angkor Wat, arguing that they are unsightly and will do little to boost the income Angkor generates by allowing night tours. In contrast, the Minister of Tourism and the Apsara Authority have both made the case for increasing [...] Here’s a bit of worrying news from Siem Reap. It seems that the tourism authorities want to extend visiting hours to the Angkor temples to night time in a bid to get more tourists and their dollars. I wonder what kind of infrastructural change facilitating night visits will entail – the construction of proper walking [...] This edition of rojak is an eclectic mix of tantalizing speculations about the hobbit’s role in linguistics, videos from Java and lego archaeology. photo credit: kennymatic [...] … at least, that’s what researcher Kent Davis wants you to believe. The Phnom Penh Post features his work in surveying and quantifying all the images of women (conventionally known as Apsaras, but he calls it Devatas) to determine if there’s something more to the images. His theory is that because of the thousands of [...] Stones, temples and stupas: We have it all in this week’s edition of rojak! photo credit: Carol Mitchell [...] |
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