Ministry lists heritage preservation efforts
More than 6,000 archaeological and cultural heritage sites have been registered across the Kingdom, among other achievements, according to the Culture and Fine Arts Ministry. ...
Pech Sotheary
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50710421/ministry-lists-heritage-preservation-efforts/
Government creates committee to find Kingdom’s unique talents
The government has established a Living Inheritance Committee (LIM) to look for gifted individuals or groups with extraordinary talent. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://phnompenhpost.com/national/government-creates-committee-find-kingdoms-unique-talents
Announcement: photographs of the victims at the former Khmer Rouge prison S-21 to be colorized and edited in part from the actual situation
On 11 April 2021. the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts release an announcement on the photographs of the victims at the former Khmer Rouge prison S-21 to be colorized and edited in pArt from the actual situation while the victims were threatened by the ...
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
Parts of deity statue unearthed at Angkor Thom, reassembled
Archaeologists from the Apsara National Authority (ANA), a body tasked with managing the Angkor Archaeological Park, have unearthed the partial head and shoulders of a statue of a deity near Angkor Thom’s Ta Kav gate in Siem Reap province, and have reassembled the sculpture for ...
Lay Samean
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/parts-deity-statue-unearthed-angkor-thom-reassembled
The return of lost Khmer cultural objects to the Kingdom of Cambodia
On September 29, 2021, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a press release on the return of lost Khmer cultural objects to the Kingdom of Cambodia.More than 100 stone and bronze Khmer antiquities which will be returned to Cambodia. ...
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
Three more cultural heritages nominated for UN listing
Cambodia will nominate Koh Ker temple, Nom Banhchok rice noodles and Khmer martial art “Bokator” for inscription into the UNESCO world heritage list and the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage of humanity list. ...
Soth Koemsoeun
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501022249/three-more-cultural-heritages-nominated-for-un-listing/
Heritage site revamp aims to boost tourism
Historian and travel industry experts believe the redevelopment of the Luong Preah Sdach Korn Heritage Site in Ponhea Kraek district into a cultural and historical resort will enhance tourism and sustainability in Tbong Khmum province. ...
Chea Sokny
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/heritage-site-revamp-aims-boost-tourism
MCFA seeks return of artefacts from Thailand and China
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts (MCFA) is requesting that precious Artefacts of Khmer origin be returned from Thailand and China. The culture ministry is making every effort to rediscover and preserve Cambodian Artefacts that disappeared during the civil war period. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501354452/mcfa-seeks-return-of-artefacts-from-thailand-and-china/
Cambodia seeks UNESCO listings for Khmer Krama, S-21
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts will also request that the Khmer Krama and Tuol Sleng Prison (S-21) also be listed with UNESCO following the successful entry of Koh Ker temple on Sunday. ...
Hang Punreay
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501364412/cambodia-seeks-unesco-listings-for-khmer-krama-s-21/
Press release of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts on the construction of temple in Buri Ram Thailand
On 17 July 2021, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a press release on the construction of a temple in Buri Ram Thailand. According to the Abbot of the pagoda, where the temple is under construction, the temple does not copy Angkor Wat and ...
Press release on the construction at Wat Phu Man Fah in Buri Ram province
On 26 September 2023, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts issued a press release on construction at Wat Phu Man Fah in Buri Ram province.The ministry is committed to preventing any plagiarization of our national identity via diplomatic actions, technical consultations, inspections, and domestic ...
Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts
Prayer ceremony scheduled at Koh Ker site to mark UNESCO addition
A national prayer ceremony is set to take place at the Koh Ker temple complex to mark the recent inscription of the archaeological site in UNESCO’s World Heritage List, according to the National Authority for Preah Vihear (NAPV). ...
Kim Yutharo
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/prayer-ceremony-scheduled-koh-ker-site-mark-unesco-addition
Koh Ker events a celebration of national prestige
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts is set to host a major celebration on the evening of September 20 to mark the addition of Koh Ker archaeological site to UNESCO’s World Heritage List on September 17. ...
Neang Sokunthea
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/koh-ker-events-celebration-national-prestige
Vietnam, Cambodia boost cooperation in culture, art
Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hoang Dao Cuong and secretary of state and spokesman of Cambodia’s Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts Long Ponnasirivath signed a cultural and Artistic cooperation programme for the 2023 – 2027 period at a meeting in Ho ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501159301/vietnam-cambodia-boost-cooperation-in-culture-art/
ANA, Canadian team excavating temple’s platform east of Bayon
The Angkor Vihara Project of Canada’s University of Toronto is excavating an old temple in the Angkor Thom complex, some 200m east of the 12th-century Bayon, in collaboration with APSARA National Authority (ANA), according to the latter. ...
Post Staff
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ana-canadian-team-excavating-temples-platform-east-bayon
Ministry to take action against pornographic, violent and immoral online content
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has recommended cessation of the production, promotion and distribution of pornographic, violent and immoral video and related content that undermines Cambodian culture, traditions and values of women and children. ...
Torn Vibol
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501314052/ministry-to-take-action-against-abusive-online-content/
UNESCO and Cambodia foster regional dialogue on Emergency Preparedness and Underwater Cultural Heritage protection
UNESCO and the Cambodian Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts organized a Workshop on Emergency Preparedness and Underwater Cultural Heritage in Southeast Asia from 25-28 October 2023 in Siem Reap, Cambodia, with the support of the UNESCO Heritage Emergency Fund (HEF) and the UNESCO Secretariat ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501391869/unesco-and-cambodia-foster-regional-dialogue-on-emergency-preparedness-and-underwater-cultural-heritage-protection/
ICC Angkor-Sambo Prei Kuk Conference focuses on local community conservation and development
The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has announced that one of the outcomes of the Fourth Intergovernmental Conference on Angkor and Sambor Prei Kuk is to focus on conservation, development and strategic planning for local communities around the Angkor Archaeological Park to support economic ...
ICC Angkor looks forward to challenges, future growth
The Fourth Intergovernmental Conference on Angkor at UNESCO in Paris has concluded, with King Norodom Sihamoni suggesting that UNESCO send technicians to help Cambodia with human resource training to combating the illegal trade in artefacts, and preparations for the future registration of the Kingdom’s tangible ...
Van Socheata
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/icc-angkor-looks-forward-to-challenges-future-growth
Cambodia Culture Week in Vietnam to open from December 2-7
The Cambodia Culture Week in Vietnam 2023 will take place from December 2-7 in the two Mekong Delta provinces of Soc Trang and Dong Thap, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism announced on November 3. ...
Khmer Times Staff
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501387064/cambodia-culture-week-in-vietnam-to-open-from-december-2-7/
