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KOICA commits additional $3 million to fund Tuol Sleng digital archives
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) has committed an additional $3 million to fund the second phase of the “Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archives Preservation and Digitisation” project, which aims to address challenges that remain in ensuring the quality and accessibility of the archives. ...
US to fund project preserving clothes of S-21 victims
The United States Embassy has pledged $55,500 to the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts in part to preserve the clothes worn by victims of atrocities at S-21 prison. ...
Cindy Co
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/us-fund-project-preserving-clothes-s-21-victims
Tuol Sleng exhibition to tell stories of forced marriage
Every day, hundreds of tourists flock to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum to hear macabre stories of killings and torture carried out inside the prison once at the heart of the Khmer Rouge’s security apparatus. ...
George Wright
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/tuol-sleng-exhibition-to-tell-stories-of-forced-marriage-109152/
At unveiling of s-21 Stupa, ambassador calls on youth
At a ceremony to inaugurate a new stupa at Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum on Thursday, German Ambassador Joachim Baron von Marschall urged young Cambodians to be less reluctant to speak openly about the Khmer Rouge era, noting that it was Germany’s youth in ...
Aun Pheap and Maria Paula Brito
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/at-unveiling-of-s-21-stupa-ambassador-calls-on-youth-80841/
Ministry sets official Tuol Sleng ticket price
Although foreigners have long paid a fee to enter Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts has announced that the days of apparently free entry to the notorious Khmer Rouge prison are finished and the charge will now be ...
Kuch Naren
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-sets-official-tuol-sleng-ticket-price-62599/
Ministry Says no to CNRP ceremony at Tuol Sleng
The Ministry of Culture on Tuesday rejected the opposition CNRP’s request to hold a ceremony at the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum for those who died under the Khmer Rouge. In a letter dated Monday to the CNRP, Chamroeun Vantha, director general of the Culture Ministry’s administration ...
Aun Pheap
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/ministry-says-no-to-cnrp-ceremony-at-tuol-sleng-56170/