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Cambodia grapples with an impending inflation hike as oil price and US dollar surge amid the crisis

A 200-year-old Chinese mansion in Bangkok’s heart isn’t an obvious place for a scuba school, but in a city relentlessly demolishing its architectural heritage the business is helping preserve the historic home.

Beneath what remains of the 12th-century Al-Hadba minaret, builders work on a project to revive Mosul’s Old City, reduced to rubble during Iraq’s battle to retake the city from jihadists. Mosques, churches and century-old houses are being brought back to life in the northern metropolis, which the Islamic State group seized as its stronghold before being pushed out in mid-2017.

Pen Robit is having a busy 2022. In January he did a solo exhibition at Silapak Trochaek Pneik (STP) gallery called Wings of Tomorrow. Just two months later on March 3 he opened another mysterious and splendid exhibition called The Ontology of Form and Colour at Rosewood’s Art Gallery that will be on display through April 30.

Police in Chhnal Moan commune of Battambang province’s Kors Kralor district have reported the death of a boy along with a cow on March 9 due to a mine exploding the previous day. The incident took place near the boy’s residence in Prey Toteung village.

Oscar nominees from Steven Spielberg and Will Smith to first-time Bhutanese director Pawo Choyning Dorji gathered at a Los Angeles ballroom on Monday, as Hollywood’s award season enters its final stretch.

Phone makers and telecoms firms unveiled a series of gadgets and innovations at one of the industry’s biggest get-togethers this week in Barcelona. Here is a selection of the most curious objects from the Mobile World Congress. 5G bartender It shakes a mean cocktail, speaks a dozen languages and recognises its most loyal customers by their faces.

The petals of various flowers in red, yellow and pink hover suspended in translucent plastic moulded into various shapes to make key chains, necklaces and combs with a fresh look and design brought to you by Afina – a Cambodian woman who was brought up in Malaysia.

Phone makers and telecoms firms unveiled a series of gadgets and innovations at one of the industry’s biggest get-togethers this week in Barcelona.

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, a drama about the challenges and taboos surrounding motherhood, was named the year’s best indie film at the Spirit Awards on Sunday.