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Thais renew bid to retrieve aged lintel
News, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 17/08/2017
» Thailand has high hopes that a sandstone lintel which was illegally smuggled from the Khao Lon Khmer Sanctuary in Sa Kaeo decades ago and later sold to the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco will be returned home in the wake of some new discoveries.
The flora of Laos
Life, Pichaya Svasti, Published on 13/09/2018
» Located on the west side of the Mekong River opposite the Lao heritage town Luang Prabang is Pha Tad Ke Botanical Garden. Opened around a year ago, the garden collects Lao plant species with the aim to conserve Laos' rich biodiversity and traditional ethnobotanical knowledge. It showcases a series of ethnobotanical gardens as well as clusters of ginger, orchids, ferns, bamboo and palms around the base of the Pha Tad Ke cliff overlooking the river.