Ancient angkuoch needs modern makers
Son Soeun and his lifelong friend Bin Song are in their late seventies, but they can both still play a rare musical instrument called the angkuoch and often do so together.
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Son Soeun and his lifelong friend Bin Song are in their late seventies, but they can both still play a rare musical instrument called the angkuoch and often do so together.
Son Soeun and his lifelong friend Bin Song are in their late seventies, but they can both still play a rare musical instrument called the angkuoch and often do so together. The pair of old timers reminisce about the old days when there were many boys around their age who would keep an angkuoch in their pocket to entertain themselves while working out in the fields.
Inscription experts at the National Museum are researching and translating the words on an engraved stone that was recently discovered in Preah Vihear province, while Stung Treng provincial Department of Culture and Fine Arts’s officials found fragments of the ruined Phu Chong temple – also known as Bachong Temple – that has been buried in the Mekong River for centuries.