The proposed sale of an ancient Cambodian statue at Soethby's auction house in New York has raised new questions about the legality of selling looted ancient artwork. ... See More
Federal agents in New York on Wednesday moved to seize a thousand-year-old Cambodian statue from Sotheby’s, alleging in a civil complaint that Sotheby’s had put the 10th-century figure of a mythological warrior up for auction despite knowing that it had been stolen from a temple. http://www.nytime... See More
Cambodia has asked the United States government for help in recovering a thousand-year-old statue of a mythic warrior that sits in limbo at Sotheby’s in New York and that some experts believe was looted amid the convulsions of the Vietnam War and the killing fields of the Khmer Rouge.
"Thailand and Cambodia have agreed to withdraw their troops from the area surrounding a disputed border temple..."