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Reading’s Pagoda is getting a $4.7 million makeover inside and out. Work began last week at the landmark building on Mount Penn. The project is funded by $3 million in American Rescue Plan Act ...
"At the beginning we shared a bowl of rice between 10 people," recounts the 71-year-old man who lost more than a dozen family members during Cambodia's bloodiest era. "By the end, it was one grain ...
Sheltering in the shade of a bus repurposed into a mobile museum, Mean Loeuy tells a group of children about the hell he went through in a Khmer Rouge labour camp. "At the beginning we shared a ...
“Fans have probably noticed in the last few years that the scoreboard on top of the Pagoda has actually not been on since 2021,” Zach Horrall, the digital marketing director for IMS and ...
Tieu Dao Pagoda, located in the Bat Trang area of Hanoi, stands out for its one-of-a-kind architecture made from tens of thousands of ceramic pieces handcrafted by artisans from the famed Bat Trang ...
On April 17, 1975, soldiers of the ultra-Maoist Khmer Rouge rolled into the capital astride tanks, toppling the US-backed republican army of Lon Nol and starting a four-year communist government.
Her interest is deeply intertwined with her family’s history, particularly the traumatic experiences her mother endured during the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. When a figure from the past ...
During a brutal four-year rule, the communist-nationalist ideologues of the Khmer Rouge killed between 1.6 million and 3 million people through executions, forced labor and starvation. It ...
The top of Myanmar's Shwe Sar Yan Pagoda, to the south-east of Mandalay, has collapsed following a huge earthquake. Onlookers can be heard screaming and shouting as part of the building crashed to ...
Under the Khmer Rouge, more than 1.7 million Cambodians, roughly a quarter of the population, were killed by execution, torture and starvation between 1975 and 1979 before the regime was overthrown.