After Thailand and Cambodia agreed to reposition their troops in a disputed border area following a bloody military clash, a ...

Tensions between the Southeast Asian countries have soared since an armed confrontation in a border area left one Cambodian ...

Top Vatican officials and Buddhist monks in Cambodia have begun another series of dialogues, seeking ways to foster Buddhist-Christian cooperation and to work for peace. The three-day colloquium, the ...

Among the distinguished international guests attending the opening ceremony were President of Sri Lanka Anura Kumara Dissanayaka, Deputy Prime Minister of Cambodia Neth Savoeun ... and the hoisting of ...

including the inaugural exhibition of 87 national Buddhist treasures and a grand Buddhist flag-raising ceremony with a 500m² flag. On the afternoon of May 2, the Vietnam Buddhist Sangha (VBS) held a ...

It features 80 different flags made by refugees and design graduates The Temple of Peace consists of a scaffold structure designed by Bloem based on the many-tiered Buddhist pagodas of Nepal ...

Supported by By Tom Mashberg Tom Mashberg has been covering the return of looted artifacts to Cambodia for more than ... mythological temple guardians and Buddhist divinities, Cambodian officials ...

However, one flag ... Cambodia is home to Angkor Wat, the world's largest Hindu temple complex. Built originally as a dedication to the god Vishnu by the Khmer Empire's King Suryavarman II in the 12th ...

Fast forward another two decades to the early 1970s and four leaves were added to the lion's crimson square – representing ... other national flag on Earth. The five-sided design mirrors ...

They succeeded in having Vesak declared a national holiday in Sri Lanka during the colonial period (in May 1885) by Governor Sir Arthur Hamilton and were responsible for the design of the Buddhist ...

In Buddhist teaching, Mount Meru is circled by ... In 1863, French naturalist Henri Mouhot published an account of his travels in Cambodia three years earlier, in which he claimed he had ...