Japan's Yoshiaki Ishizawa on Thursday received the Ramon Magsaysay Award, one of Asia's highest honors, with a vow to carry on his advocacy for cultural heritage preservation and promotion. Ishizawa, 79, a former president of Sophia University who spent decades helping to restore Cambodia's Angkor ...
A Japanese historian who helped Cambodians preserve the Angkor temples and a Sri Lankan teacher who counseled war widows and orphans to overcome their nightmares are among the six winners of this year's Ramon Magsaysay Awards, regarded as Asia's version of the Nobel Prize. The ...
North Korea's much-delayed museum in Cambodia, one of the reclusive state's allies in Asia, is now open to the public, but questions as to its true purpose remain. The Angkor Panorama Museum, built and paid for by North Korea's state-owned Mansudae Overseas Project in cooperation ...
Cambodia's most popular tourist attraction — the complex of ancient temples that includes Angkor Wat — is suffering from a form of overexposure: At least five foreign visitors have been arrested and deported this year for taking nude photos at the sacred sites. Authorities have ...
