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Physical art exhibitions allow you to get inside the gallery hall and enjoy the artworks in a set time at a set place for a limited time period. But now you don’t have to travel to a gallery to view and purchase artwork if you are too busy with work.

Thol Sreyleak, 35, is a resident of O’Bek Ka’am commune of Phnom Penh’s Sen Sok district.

‘Indian tuk-tuks”, which are smaller, easier to drive on narrow roads and cheaper to operate due to running on liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), have rapidly gained popularity and look likely to overtake the traditional four-wheeled tuk-tuk, or Remorque, once known as the “Emperors of the Road”.

Thol Sreyleak, 35, is a resident of O’Bek Ka’am commune of Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district. The last time she got food poisoning was in May and it was so severe she was admitted to hospital. The experience made her family of four start thinking about making their diet safer as this was the third time Sreyleak had suffered from food poisoning.

The culture ministry announced that it is working with two US universities on an excavation at Baset temple in Battambang province’s northeast, as part of an initiative that seeks to gain insight into pre-industrial era settlements in the Kingdom.

A total of 27 looted Cambodian artefacts arrived back home from the US on June 15, a year after a court in Manhattan district of New York state ordered their seizure from collectors and return to Cambodia, according to the culture ministry.

A team of wildlife conservationists on June 17 started the third of five annual vulture counts, to collect data and prepare conservation plans for the three critically-endangered species found in Cambodia.

The Ministry of Commerce on June 16 kicked off the seventh season of its “Buy Cambodian Campaign” with a four-day trade fair, “The 15th Cambodian Products, Fruits and Vegetables Exhibition”, in Siem Reap town.

A total of 169 Kreung indigenous households in O’Chum district’s La’ak commune of Ratanakkiri province on June 15 received collectively-owned community land consisting of 13 land titles covering 1,230ha.

At least 84 globally endangered Indian hog deer (Axis porcinus) roam about the grassland habitats of the Prek Prasob Wildlife Sanctuary, within the Mekong Flooded Forest (MFF) Landscape in Kratie province, a first-ever population survey found, raising hopes for conservation in Cambodia and the world.