https://www.scmp.com/rss/515802/feed Ramesh Reddy is an emergency physician and freelance journalist based in Canada. His work has previously appeared in The Globe and Mail and The Statesider. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The five-hour journey from Phnom Penh had already been arduous. The acrid smell of burning rice stubble hung in the air as the jeep snaked slowly along red laterite roads in Cambodia’s northeast, overgrown with dense foliage where old skull-and-bone warning signs lay in the brush – stark reminders of landmines still present from the Khmer Rouge occupation and the subsequent civil war that consumed the country for more than a decade after their reign ended, in 1979. It was March 2005 and,... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3224209/how-statue-looted-cambodian-temple-revealed-vast-smuggling-network-dealing-stolen-cultural-artefacts?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3224209/how-statue-looted-cambodian-temple-revealed-vast-smuggling-network-dealing-stolen-cultural-artefacts?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 Jun 2023 23:45:09 +0000