PHNOM PENH: An American museum has returned a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman to Cambodia, decades after it was looted from a jungle temple when the kingdom was in the throes of civil war.

The meter-high statue was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Ker temple site near the famed Angkor Wat complex.

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