Thursday, January 14th, 2010 Posted in Malaysia | No Comments »
Construction works at Terengganu, a state on the eastern part of the Malaysian peninsula have revealed artefacts such as Chinese coins and ceramics. Authorities have stepped in to claim the ... Read more..Friday, December 18th, 2009 Posted in Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam | No Comments »
It's mid-December already, and I haven't posted any news so far on account of being in Hanoi for the first couple of weeks, and then falling majorly sick after returning. ... Read more..Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in Angkor, Cambodia, Thailand | No Comments »
Only one entry for this week's rojak, and it's a rather sad one. Andy Brouwer writes about the looting and destruction of lintels and statues at the border temple of ... Read more..Wednesday, September 30th, 2009 Posted in Burma (Myanmar) | No Comments »
Can anyone help with this question? In 1944, the Australian paper The Argus published a short note about the theft of a gold disc 25' in diameter from a temple ... Read more..Tuesday, January 27th, 2009 Posted in Cambodia | No Comments »
Khmerization translates an article in Koh Santeapheap about the looting of a 1,000-year-old man-made hill in Svay Rieng Province. The unauthorised dig was done apparently with the collusion of the ... Read more..Friday, November 7th, 2008 Posted in Philippines | No Comments »
Last month, a hoard of rare potsherds that were looted from an archaeological site in Mindanao, Philippines, was intercepted by law enforcement officials. While it is fortunate that the artefacts ... Read more..Tuesday, October 21st, 2008 Posted in Philippines | No Comments »
KAPI, a community of archaeologists in the Philippines, has released a statement calling for better enforcement of heritage protection laws, Â after the discovery of 22 bags of archaeological material that ... Read more..