Tan Chwee Lian picks up a small paddle, her finger resting on a groove worn into the wood over 70 years of making Buddhist and Taoist deities in her shop, one of the last of its kind in Singapore.Her son, 71-year-old Ng Yeow Hua, runs the shop, making, selling and repairing Taoist and Buddhist idols for temples and devotees.
other european explorers and soldiers stole artwork from what is now the democratic republic of congo. thousands of wooden statues, ivory masks, musical instruments, and other artifacts taken by force and, eventually, displayed in the africa museum near brussels. now, belgium says it will return the stolen art. translator: the approach is very simple. everything that was acquired through illegitimate means, through theft, through violence, through pillaging, must be given back. it doesn t belong to us. reporter: belgium will transfer legal ownership of the artifacts to the drc but it will not, immediately, ship the art, itself, to the country, unless the work is specifically requested by drc authorities. that way, the museum can keep the works on display, and pay a loan fee to the drc. i have no problem, whatsoever, to transfer the ownership to the congolese to
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