World Heritage inscription posted at Angkor Wat
Cambodia's Angkor Wat gets an iconic sign to commemorate its inscription into the World Heritage list in 1992. photo credit: ...
Tag: Angkor (kingdom)
Referring to the Khmer Empire that controlled much of Mainland Southeast Asia from the 9th-15th centuries, centred around modern-day Cambodia. Khmer: អង្គរ
See also: Angkor Archaeological Park, Siem Reap
Wednesday Rojak #46
While I'm at the tail end of the World Rock Art course, I've also real salad of posts from all ...
Angkor National Museum off to a rocky start
The Thai-owned Angkor National Museum is off to a rocky start, as the Phnom Penh Post discovers, in the wake ...
Updated Angkor show returns for the new tourist season
Tickets to a spectacular show about the history of Angkor and its modern discovery are selling like hot cakes, in ...
Angkor suffering from too much adoration
The LA Times has a feature on how the massive tourist influx to Angkor is taking a toll on the ...
Wednesday Rojak #34
... the meanwhile edition. Meanwhile? Yes, while much of the focus this past two weeks have been about the inscribing ...
Tomb Raider temple to be restored
Most visitors to Angkor would have already visited the site of Ta Prohm, the temple deliberately left overgrown with trees ...
National Angkor Museum not really "national" or "Angkor"?
The International Herald Tribune writes about the newly-opened National Angkor Museum that has drawn criticism for not being really "national" ...
The ghost of Preah Vihear returns to haunt
Not a literal ghost, mind you, but a rather the temple's troubled history of being at the border of two ...
Wednesday Rojak #33
In this week's edition of rojak we have a Malaysian flavour to things, from architecture, ethnology and politics! photo credit: ...
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