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RUN TA EK, Cambodia (AP) — It’s been more than a year since Yem Srey Pin moved with her family from the village where she was born on Cambodia’s Angkor UNESCO World Heritage site to Run Ta Ek, a dusty new settlement about 25 kilometers (15 miles) away.
A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water.
SIEM REAP, Cambodia (AP) — A baby monkey struggles and squirms as it tries to escape the man holding it by the neck over a concrete cistern, repeatedly dousing it with water.
Housing and Local Government Minister Nga Kor Ming, who is from the multiracial but Chinese-led Democratic Action Party, last year proposed to ask Unesco to recognise the “new villages”, which were set up by the British across several states in the peninsula to contain the spread of communism after World War II.
These villages, numbering more than 400 across the peninsula, were essentially a euphemism for concentration camps set up by the British military to corral the Malayan population, particularly ethnic Chinese who might be sympathetic to the communist cause.
Bangladesh’s intricately decorated rickshaws, featuring elaborate motifs painstakingly rendered in enamel paints, navigate the country’s urban landscapes as embodiments of a living art form but now face the threat of dying out as its popularity declines.
In recent years, there have been increasingly frequent and bitter rows over culture and heritage in Malaysia, in step with the poll gains of Islamist parties, who claim to protect the economic and political interests of the multi-ethnic country’s Malay-Muslim majority.
LUANG PRABANG, Laos -- Located between the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers, the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Luang Prabang is a picturesque destination that combines natural beauty and charming Lao-French architecture. Here you'll find monks in blazing orange robes passing by the town's whitewashed colonnades, while longtail boats putter along waters between hills of tropical hardwood.