Voices rise, resonate among countries for return of relics from British Museum

The embers of a scandal implicating some of the UK's top art and historical artifact institutions, in which approximately 2,000 items in the British Museum's possession are unaccounted for, keep igniting blazes of public debate in China as of Tuesday, a comparison with the news that Swiss cultural authorities recently repatriated five lost Chinese cultural relics.

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