Effective January 16th, 2009, import restrictions on certain archaeological material from the People’s Republic of China (China) have been imposed by the United States.
These restrictions are being imposed pursuant to an agreement between the United States and China that has been entered into under the authority of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act in accordance with
the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.
The final rule amends CBP regulations by adding China to the list of countries for which a bilateral agreement has been entered into for imposing cultural property import restrictions. The final rule also contains the designated list that describes the types of archaeological articles to which the restrictions apply.
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JUNE 19TH - The Ministry of Interior in Cambodia is expanding the Heritage Police Unit first established to patrol the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap. The Unit will be expanded to cover an as yet unspecified number of provinces according to Lt. Col. Lim Sokharaksmey.
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AUGUST 10TH - The South China Morning Post ran the following story on looting in Cambodia;
BEHIND THE NEWS
Nick Meo, Aug 11, 2007
When they unearthed old skeletons buried under their homes, the villagers of Sophy thought their wildest dreams of buried treasure had at last come true.
For three days until the authorities stopped them, peasant farmers abandoned their rice fields and dug frantically, unearthing piles of bones and pots and a few glass beads but, to their disappointment, no gold.
Other villages in the Cambodian province of Banteay Meanchey have had better luck. The graves there that are worth the really big money are the last resting places of chiefs from a culture that flourished more than 1,000 years ago, the progenitors of the kings who built the extraordinary temple complex at nearby Angkor Wat.
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AUGUST 14TH - Sprawling Angkor Brought Down by Overpopulation, Study Suggests
Susan Brown, writing for National Geographic News reports "Cambodia's long-lost temple complex of Angkor is the world's largest known preindustrial settlement, reveals a new radar study that found 74 new temples and more than a thousand man-made ponds at the site.
But urban sprawl and its associated environmental devastation may have led to the collapse of the kingdom, which includes the renowned temple of Angkor Wat, the study suggests.
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