Cambodia Art
Recent Reports of Looting, Theft, Prosecution and Recovery on the World Wide Web
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton University Art Museum Voluntarily Returns Ancient Sculpture to Italy. The work is a fragmentary Roman marble funerary monument in the form of a pediment, with a Latin inscription and a bust in high relief representing a deceased, bearded man named Aphthonetus. The monument dates from the reign of Hadrian (117-38 A.D.). Susan Taylor, director of the museum, said. "We are proud to be an active partner in the ongoing international effort to resolve ownership claims for stolen objects and in discouraging the illegal trade of art and cultural artifacts. Everyone involved has worked to resolve this issue appropriately, and we are thankful for their participation." June 2002 ... [Read More]
US Department Of State Post Report
International pressure and a declining economic situation at home forced Vietnam to end its occupation of Cambodia in 1989. The signing of the 1991 Paris Peace Agreements was a watershed event, which ended almost 13 years of Cambodian civil war and established the country as a democracy via a UN-established peacekeeping force, the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNTAC). In May 1993, Cambodia held its first free and open elections. A constitutionally based government took office in September 1993, with Prince Norodom Sihanouk again elevated to King and made head of state. Prince Norodom Ranariddh, leader of the royalist FUNCINPEC party (the French acronym for Cambodian National Front for an Independent, Neutral, Peaceful and Cooperative Cambodia) and Hun Sen, chief of the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) served as co-Prime Ministers. In July 1997, when fighting broke out between forces of the two coalition partners, Prince Ranariddh and other senior members of his ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Hagar, an NGO, Helps Human Trafficking Victims in Cambodia
In its first years of operation, Hagar relied solely on international grants and voluntary assistance to fund and staff its programs. To place the NGO on a long-term, sustainable and secure financial base, Tami encouraged the growth of income-generating schemes whose profits could be ploughed back into Hagar's sheltering efforts. Today Hagar maintains three businesses, including Cambodia's only state-of-the-art soymilk factory. ... Hagar's commercialization has been accomplished in cooperation with the International Finance Cooperation (IFC), the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank. During his visit to Washington, Tami will meet again with World Bank officials to discuss ways of expanding this partnership model to other economies where significant portions of the population are not able to find proper employment. ... [Read More]
International Cultural Property Protection | U.S. Response | Implementation
Categories of archaeological and ethnological artifacts subject to import restrictions are described in the Federal Register notice for each country; import restrictions take effect on the date of its publication. Where available, illustrations for artifact categories subject to restriction are provided in the Image Database. ... ... [Read More]
Mine Action MESSENGER, June 2004
Children's Best Friends: Mine Detecting DogsThe Marshall Legacy Institute’s (MLI) inaugural Children Against the Landmine Problem (CHAMPS) initiative in September 2003, resulted in thousands of children in the State of Wyoming raising $14,000 to send a mine detecting dog to Sri Lanka in February. This two-year-old female Belgian Malinois, named Wyoming, will help to rid Sri Lanka of its estimated 700,000 landmines. CHAMPS is an educational and fundraising program designed to engage American school children in the global effort to remove landmines. Children are encouraged to help sponsor a mine detecting dog ... [Read More]
'Protecting Lives, Restoring Livelihoods: The U.S. Program To Remove Landmines' - U.S. Foreign Policy Agenda - January 2004, Department of State, International Information Programs
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East Asia Overview
The capture by Thai authorities in August of top Jemaah Islamiya (JI) leader and al-Qaida’s representative in Southeast Asia, Nurjaman Riduan bin Isomuddin (a.k.a. Hambali) was a significant victory in the global war on terrorism. Hambali, an Indonesian, was captured at an apartment complex in Ayutthaya, Thailand, and is suspected of masterminding numerous terrorist attacks in Southeast Asia, including the Christmas Eve church bombings in 2000 in Indonesia (19 dead, 47 wounded); the bombings on 30 December 2000 in metro Manila, Philippines (22 dead); the Bali attacks on 12 October 2002 (202 dead, more than 330 wounded); and possibly the J.W. Marriott Hotel bombing on 5 August 20 ... [Read More]
I) Southeast Asia and the Pacific
Cambodia registered gains in improving law enforcement and limiting corruption in 2001, although ingrained corruption and endemic poverty hindered the government’s ability to mount a sustained effort against narcotics trafficking. The government’s principal counternarcotics body, the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD), cooperates closely with DEA, regional counterparts, and the UNODCCP (UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Programs). In October, the Prime Minister dismissed the head of the NACD in connection with the earlier arrest of another senior counternarcotics official on charges of trafficking in methamphetamine. He replaced him with a generally well regarded senior police official. In November, the White House announced Cambodia’s removal from the list of major illicit drug producing and drug-transit countries, a development that was welcomed by the Prime Minister and other government officials. The Cambodian government recognizes that its counternarcotics efforts ar ... [Read More]
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