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Mount Sanqingshan becomes one more world heritage 9 Jul 2008 07:59 GMT
... becomes one more world heritage One more Chinese locale has been inscribed on the UNESCO's World Heritage List. Mount Sanqingshan National Park in south China's Jiangxi Province is the latest to earn the distinction. The ...
Bahai Gardens named World Heritage Site 9 Jul 2008 07:57 GMT
... faith is their founder, Baha’u’llah’s grave in Akko. This year, 27 sites made the UNESCO list. Amongst them are the Malaysian historical cities of Malacca and George Town, the ancient city of San Miguel in Mexico ...
UNESCO to stage multilingual Iranian play 9 Jul 2008 07:38 GMT
... Wednesday, July 09, 2008 - ?2005 IranMania.com LONDON, July 9 (IranMania) - UNESCO is slated to stage the Iranian filmmaker Ali Razi's Where does the Sky End to commemorate the International Year of Languages, PressTV ...
Quake rattles south Peru 9 Jul 2008 07:15 GMT
... southeast of Lima, the capital. The historic center of the city was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. – ...
Thai temple backing ruled illegal 9 Jul 2008 06:15 GMT
... backing the bid. The Preah Vihear Hindu temple, near the Thai-Cambodian border, was awarded Unesco World Heritage status on Monday. Thailand's opposition said supporting the bid jeopardised Thai claims to disputed land in the border ...

Unesco boost for George Town 9 Jul 2008 05:50 GMT
... Town obtaining the World Heritage Status from United Nations Educations, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). Australian tourists Kate Beckett, 30, and her boyfriend Jamie Wallis, 36, said it was important to preserve the cultural sights ...
UNESCO Vietnam, domestic group cooperate for higher educational quality 9 Jul 2008 05:30 GMT
... This is the first cooperation agreement the Vietnam National UNESCO Committee signed with a domestic partner to promote international cooperation and boost educational is the first cooperation agreement the Vietnam National ...
Antonine Wall wins new status 9 Jul 2008 04:32 GMT
... north-west frontier of the Roman Empire has been named a World Heritage Site by Unesco. The Antonine Wall, which stretched 39 miles across Scotland's central belt, was given the prized status at a summit of the ...
Mexico environmentalists fear deforestation to go unabated in U.N. world heritage site 9 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT
... U.N. world heritage site may do little to halt deforestation that threatens the butterflies. UNESCO bestowed the global landmark distinction Monday on the Monarch reserve, a series of mountain forests west of Mexico City where ...
PM Proud Georgetown, Melaka Nominated As Unesco World Heritage Sites 9 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT
... PM Proud Georgetown, Melaka Nominated As Unesco World Heritage Sites By Rosyatimah Tukimin KUALA LUMPUR, July 8 (Bernama) -- Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi wants more ...

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Phrea Vihear registered as World Heritage site to Cambodia 9 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT
... 1:54 pm ICT by amrit - Foreign News Sources reported this morning that the UNESCO World Heritage Committee currently meeting in Quebec, Canada has seen fit to register the Phrea Vihear National Park as a ...
Risima Risimkin at Dance Congress in Athens 9 Jul 2008 04:26 GMT
... Risima Risimkin 07.07.2008) - The World Congress of the International Dance Council (CID) UNESCO ended in Athens on Sunday. President of CID UNESCO Skopje Office, Risima Risimkin took part at the congress, alongside secretary-general Vanco Bogoev ...
Magnitude 6 Quake Startles Southern Peru 9 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... southeast of Lima, the capital. The historic center of the city was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. (Reporting by Miguel Zegarra in Arequipa, Rodrigo Martinez in Santiago and Anna Stablum in London; Writing by ...
Berlin housing projects from early 1900s added to UNESCO world heritage list 9 Jul 2008 04:25 GMT
... time when many were crammed into tiny, squalid turn-of-the century apartments. Delegates to a UNESCO conference in Quebec City, Canada voted Monday to add the housing estates to its list of more than 800 sites around ...
Political opposition plans impeachment of foreign minister over Cambodian temple dispute 9 Jul 2008 03:52 GMT
... signed with Cambodia backing the application to register the Preah Vihear temple as a UNESCO World Heritage Site was unconstitutional because the government failed to consult Parliament on the matter. The opposition has used the ...
UNESCO World Heritage Committee listed the Preah Vihear Temple as World Heritage Site. 9 Jul 2008 03:51 GMT
... and citizens took to the streets here Tuesday to celebrate the decision by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to list the Preah Vihear Temple as World Heritage Site. Prime Minister Hun Sen said that "it is a ...
Adding hailed of Cambodia's temple to World Heritage list 9 Jul 2008 03:51 GMT
... and citizens took to the streets here Tuesday to celebrate the decision by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee to list the Preah Vihear Temple as World Heritage Site. Prime Minister Hun Sen said that "it is a ...
Asian sites win UNESCO world heritage status 9 Jul 2008 03:50 GMT
... in Papua New Guinea, marking the country's first entry on the list. Also earning UNESCO heritage recognition was a sweeping part of the coral reef and lagoon around in the French territory of New Caledonia, in ...
SITES IN CUBA AND MEXICO GETS UNESCO'S WORLD HERITAGE STATUS 9 Jul 2008 03:32 GMT
... SITES IN CUBA AND MEXICO GETS UNESCO'S WORLD HERITAGE STATUS MARLEN BORGES PARIS, July 9 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) -- The historical quarter of Camagüey (Cuba), the Mexican Biosphere ...
Hindu temple spat rages in Thailand over UNESCO listing 9 Jul 2008 03:12 GMT
... Hindu temple spat rages in Thailand over UNESCO listing By Nopporn Wong-Anan, Reuters Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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New Caledonia, PNG Sites Make Heritage' List 9 Jul 2008 02:12 GMT
... Caledonia's lagoons and reef ecosystems have been added on Monday (Canada time) to the UNESCO's prestigious world heritage list, in the natural environment category, the United Nations Education Science and Culture organisation confirmed. The French government ...
UNESCO Adds 27 New Sites to World Heritage List 9 Jul 2008 01:15 GMT
... The 3 parameter of the Mid function, which is now -9, must be a non-negative integer The 3 parameter of the Mid function, which ...
Mexico environmentalists fear deforestation will hurt butterflies 9 Jul 2008 01:14 GMT
... U.N. world heritage site may do little to halt deforestation that threatens the butterflies. UNESCO bestowed the global landmark distinction Monday on the Monarch reserve, a series of mountain forests west of Mexico City where ...
Celebrations in Malacca next month 9 Jul 2008 01:13 GMT
... being planned next month by the state government to celebrate Malacca's inclusion on the Unesco World Heritage List. Sources from the chief minister's office said the celebration would be "something the people of Malacca would cherish ...
PM: Attract tourists with better facilities 9 Jul 2008 01:13 GMT
... named as World Heritage Sites by the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organisation (Unesco). "Both cities need to take advantage of the announcement. Efforts must be made to improve the facilities, cleanliness and other services to ...