Sokrithy Im, Director of the Department of Research, Training, and Communication at Cambodia’s APSARA National Authority. The ancient complex of Banteay Chhmar is one of our region’s most magnificent yet vulnerable cultural treasures. Our ongoing collaborative initiative, led by the APSARA National Authority of Cambodia under the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts, focuses on building a living “Digital Twin”—a comprehensive spatial asset designed not just for documentation, bu

Author: Ivan Anthony Henares, Chairperson of the Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance Dunhuang, where centuries of cultural exchange are written into the landscape itself. Few places better remind us that heritage is not created in isolation. It is shaped by encounters between peoples, ideas, beliefs, and traditions across time. China and Southeast Asia have never been strangers. Long before the establishment of our modern nations, our ancestors were already connected t

This article is adapted from speeches delivered by Molika Veng, Program Manager at the Youth House for Cambodia-China Friendship. Speaking from the perspective of young people engaged in Cambodia-China exchanges, she discussed how technology, education, and popular culture can help strengthen cultural understanding and people-to-people connectivity between China and ASEAN countries. I come from the Youth House for Cambodia-China Friendship, which focuses on strengthening conn