At a bustling market in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s heritage is being sold off, piece by piece: ancient beads are snapped up at two for a dollar, while 15 dollars secures a 3,500-year-old stone tool. Sales of such ordinary antiquities are booming at markets across the kingdom, robbing it of a rich history archaeologists are only…
Read moreClamour rises for Khmer Rouge trial as political crisis ends
After a year-long political deadlock, the formation of a new government in Cambodia has finally cleared the way for ex-Khmer Rouge leaders to stand trial over the killing of up to two million of their compatriots. Cambodia wants to see the Khmer Rouge regime in the dock, but as the clock ticks on the final…
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