• Event announcement – Sustainable Laboratory Chemistry – New Challenges and Effective Responses, 14th June 2010, University of York

    Updated: 2010-03-19 10:57:55
    The UK Physical Sciences Centre is collaborating with two HEFCE-funded projects – S-Lab (Safe, Successful, Sustainable Laboratories) and the University of Bradford’s Ecoversity initiative – on a workshop on Sustainable Laboratory Chemistry. The event, at York on June 14, includes presentations on curriculum innovation, micro-scale chemistry, and laboratory environmental auditing and improvement. There is no registration [...]

  • Radya Pustaka Museum to be renovated

    Updated: 2010-03-15 00:47:39
    Indonesia’s Radya Pustaka Museum receives a rp24 billion (US2.6 million) budget for renovations this year. You may remember this museum from a while back because of a scandal involving the theft of statues from its collection, as well as recent attempts to digitise the manuscript collection. Radya Pustaka Museum to be Renovated Tempo Interaktif, 04 Mar 2010 The [...]

  • Cambodia’s red list of artifacts

    Updated: 2010-03-12 00:01:54
    Cambodia has published a red list of artefacts aimed at stemming the looting of artefacts from the country, to be distributed to museums, auction houses and border checkpoints. You can help, too, by supporting local businesses when in Cambodia and not buying marketplace antiquities! New List Aims to Stem Tide of Cambodian Stolen Antiquities VOA News, 02 [...]

  • Malaysian museum opens ceramics exhibition

    Updated: 2010-03-10 14:37:33
    Ceramics from Malaysia’s sunken shipwrecks are exhibited at the National Museum. Ceramics from sunken ships on display at National Museum New Straits Times, 27 February 2010 Ceramics found in a Sung Dynasty ship, which sunk off Tanjung Simpang Mengayau in the northern tip of Sabah, will be among artefacts to be displayed at the 1Malaysia Ceramic Exhibition at [...]

  • Hanoi Citadel gets funding for preservation

    Updated: 2010-03-09 14:04:46
    Unesco funds over a million (US?) dollars for the preservation of Thang Long Citadel. Over $1.2 million to preserve Thang Long Royal Citadel Vietnam Net Bridge, 26 February 2010 The Hanoi authorities have approved a $1.2 million project to preserve the Thang Long royal citadel in Hanoi, funded by the UNESCO. This project will be carried out by the [...]

  • Toba’s eruption provides snapshot to life in India 74,000 years ago

    Updated: 2010-03-08 14:22:37
    Archaeologist have a developed a clearer picture of what life in India was like, 74,000 years ago before and after the massive supervolcano eruption of Toba in Sumatra. photo credit: Marc Veraart New archaeological sites reveal life after ancient Toba eruption The Star, 23 February 2010 Newly discovered archaeological sites in southern and northern India have revealed how [...]

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