An employee of the Prachin Buri provincial museum, about 160 kms northeast of Bangkok, arranges...

An employee of the Prachin Buri provincial museum, about 160 kms northeast of Bangkok, arranges January 22 ancient Cambodian sandstone sculptures seized from smugglers earlier this month. Thai police January 5 intercepted a truck near the eastern Thai-Cambodian border and found it carrying the sculptures dismantled from an Angkor-era temple in Banteay Chamar in the troubled Cambodian northwest. Thailand said it stood ready to return the Khmer sculptures [as Cambodia's King Norodom Sihanouk called on premier Hun Sen] to save the nation's national heritage and stop the theft and smuggling of ancient artefacts out of the country.