Cambodia

Readers recommend: Somadevi Angkor Hotel in Cambodia

2013-06-08 08:00:00

Angkor Wat was the highlight of our Cambodia tour, and the beautiful lobby, gardens and pool with a swim-up bar at the Somadevi Angkor Hotel added to our experience. The hotel is an easy walk to restaurants and the night markets. The lobby and bar had...

Movie review: 'Wish You Were Here' an intriguing vacation-gone-wrong thriller

2013-06-06 06:00:00

The Aussie import "Wish You Were Here" offers a distinctive, highly effective take on the vacation-from-hell thriller. First-time director Kieran Darcy-Smith, working from a powerful script he wrote with wife — and the film's co-star —...

Metropolitan Museum says it will return Cambodian statues

2013-05-03 14:30:00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return two ancient statues to Cambodia after receiving convincing evidence they had been looted and smuggled out of the country illegally. The 10th century Khmer statues, known as the Kneeling Attendants,...

FDR's Holocaust lapse

2013-04-13 00:00:00

Responding to Rafael Medoff's Op-Ed article Sunday detailing FDR's reaction to Jews facing persecution in Nazi Germany, reader Robert Ouriel wrote in a letter published Friday that "as an American and a Jew, I found [Medoff's] criticism of Franklin D....

Letters: FDR, Jews and the war

2013-04-12 00:00:00

Re "What FDR said in private," Opinion, April 7 As an American and a Jew, I found Rafael Medoff's criticism of Franklin D. Roosevelt for his private comments about Jews most unfair. FDR understood that the best way to end the Holocaust was to defeat...

Mexico trying to stop antiquities sale at Sotheby's in Paris

2013-03-22 09:00:00

Another antiquities auction has turned into another international art dispute. This time it’s the sale, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Sotheby’s in Paris, of the Barbier-Mueller Collection of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico and Central...

Khmer Rouge leader dies, eluding war crimes verdict

2013-03-14 07:34:00

NEW DELHI -- The death Thursday of one of the last senior leaders of Cambodia’s brutal Khmer Rouge regime before his trial concluded underscores flaws in the war-crimes tribunal process that threaten to undermine the pursuit of global justice,...

Khmer Rouge leader Ieng Sary dies during Cambodia trial

2013-03-13 20:30:00

Ieng Sary, who co-founded Cambodia's brutal Khmer Rouge movement in 1970s, was its public face abroad and decades later became one of its few leaders to be put on trial for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million people, died Thursday morning. He was 87....

Cambodians mourn King Norodom Sihanouk in lavish style

2013-02-01 07:59:00

NEW DELHI -- Thousands of people lined the streets of Cambodia's capital Friday for the funeral of King Norodom Sihanouk, a controversial monarch who helped build the young nation after French rule before cozying up to the homicidal Khmer Rouge regime....

Major art museum group bolsters rules for acquiring ancient art

2013-01-31 07:10:00

The ethics for adding ancient works to American art museum collections became substantially more stringent five years ago when the Assn. of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) decided to set the bar higher -- prompted by complaints from Italy, Greece and other...

Pictures in the News | February 4, 2013

2013-02-04 09:12:20

Laos to begin building hotly debated Xayaburi dam this week

2012-11-06 04:53:55

Linda Beuret and her husband, Peter, traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia in January to sail on the Mekong River, which had been a dream of theirs. "We were amazed at the Mekong River and all the people who live on the river without stepping on land," she said.

2013-05-10 18:11:48

These monks have gathered at a temple known as Bayon in Angkor, Cambodia. Taken in 2006.

2013-05-10 11:19:35

Corona del Mar residents Eric and Connie Boden at Ankgor Wat, Cambodia, with friends Mike and Jenny Rue of Tustin.

2013-04-02 00:00:00