Thai FAD chief aiming for one new World Heritage site every year
A Bangkok Post feature on Borvornvate Rungrujee, the Director-General of the Fine Arts Department in Thailand and his plan to...
Seized Kapoor treasures include a large number of Cambodian and Thai artefacts
The treasure trove of disgraced antiques dealer Subhash Kapoor was seized by the authorities in New York and the list...
466-year-old chapel to be restored
An ancient chapel built during the 16th century Portuguese colonial period in historic Malacca will finally be restored by the...
National Heritage, but vandalised and under-maintained
Locals bemoan the lack of maintenance of the Gua Tambun rock art site, despite having been designated as a national...
Empress Place excavation wraps up
The excavations at Singapore's Empress Place wraps up over last weekend, and the excavation team gave a press conference to...
Help Heritage Watch print new books for its education programme!
Heritage Watch is crowdfunding! They are looking to raise USD $10,000 to help reprint a series of books to be...
Fossils found in Laos strengthen the idea of diversity amongst early humans
A new paper published last week in PLOSOne describes a second mandible found at Tam (Tham) Pa Ling in northeast...
Website: The Cambodian Archaeological LIDAR Initiative
We've seen quite a few stories about the LIDAR imaging of Angkor that has revealed a host of new data...
Royal Vietnamese rickshaw comes home
A rickshaw used by a kind of the Nguyen Dynasty has returned to Vietnam this week, after having been won...
Lecture: Shipwreck Finds in the Spratlys and The Implications on Territorial Claims
Dr Michael Flecker will be speaking at the Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre later this month on the shipwrecks and territorial claims in...
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