PM lauds return of stolen jewellery

Priceless cultural heritage: Dancers performing during a ceremony held to unveil a collection of stolen Angkor artefacts at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh. — AFP

Leader Hun Sen unveiled a collection of stolen Angkor crown jewellery which was recently returned to the kingdom after decades in Britain, pleading for other lost treasures to be handed back.

Gold crowns, necklaces and amulets were among the trove of treasures from the Angkor period, which ran from the ninth to 14th centuries AD when the Khmer empire dominated vast parts of South-East Asia.