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India offers conservation partnership to Thailand
News, Published on 12/10/2025
» New Delhi: India has expressed its readiness to collaborate with Thailand on archaeological conservation projects, says the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
Temple opening emboldens Hindu activists
Published on 27/01/2024
» NEW DELHI - A powerful Hindu group claims several mosques in India were built over demolished Hindu temples, apparently hardening its stance in a decades-long sectarian dispute just days after a huge temple was inaugurated on the site of a razed mosque.
Protect Si Thep's people, not just site
Oped, Published on 28/09/2023
» The deal is done. Si Thep has officially become Thailand's seventh official Unesco World Heritage Site. However, the Unesco listing is only half the battle. Now, work must start on rolling out the government's conservation plan, which should be improved.
Walls, mud packs and monkey removal for Trump in India
AFP, Published on 23/02/2020
» AHMEDABAD (INDIA) - US President Donald Trump makes his first official visit to India on Monday and work has been going on around the clock to spruce things up -- to the annoyance of some locals as well as monkeys.
Plans take shape for Hindu mega-temple in Ayodhya
Asia focus, Narendra Kaushik, Published on 23/12/2019
» Emboldened by a Supreme Court decision that came down on the side of Hindus, the Indian government is pressing ahead with plans for a major temple complex and tourist attraction at a long-disputed site in Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh state.
The golden land that lit the path to ancient empires
Spectrum, Paritta Wangkiat, Published on 09/04/2017
» A first look around reveals a landscape that is dry and sparsely vegetated, with few houses around. There is little evidence that visibly betrays the fact that where we're standing is on the remains of an ancient trade and culture centre in the upper Gulf of Thailand.
Myanmar soldiers, police seal off quake-damaged ancient temples
Published on 26/08/2016
» BAGAN - Truckloads of soldiers and squadrons of police sealed off some of the centuries-old Buddhist pagodas around Myanmar's ancient capital of Bagan on Thursday, a day after at least 187 of the brick temples were damaged in a powerful earthquake.
Myanmar earthquake damages famed Bagan temples
Published on 24/08/2016
» YANGON - A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck central Myanmar on Wednesday killed at least one person and damaged around 60 pagodas in the ancient city of Bagan, officials said.
UPDATE: 6.8 Myanmar quake shakes Bangkok, Pagan temples destroyed
Jon Fernquest, Published on 24/08/2016
» Earthquake shook buildings in Yangon & across Myanmar and the region as far as Chiang Mai & Bangkok in Thailand.
Squatters barrier to protecting Delhi's ancient monuments
AFP, Published on 04/04/2016
» NEW DELHI - In the crypt of a 16th-century nationally protected tomb in New Delhi, a family is busy preparing a meal in their brightly painted kitchen that boasts a fridge and electricity.