Thursday, January 17th, 2008 Posted in UNESCO World Heritage | No Comments »
The UNESCO 2007/2008 World Heritage Map is now available online now! The map highlights the 851 World Heritage Sites around the world, and talks a little about the World Heritage ... Read more..Friday, August 10th, 2007 Posted in Burma (Myanmar) | No Comments »
07 Aug 2007 (Los Angeles Times) - The LA Times posts this story about how the Myanmar government has renovated - rather arbitrarily and inaccurately - it's ancient monuments in ... Read more..Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 Posted in Angkor, Cambodia, UNESCO World Heritage, Websites | 2 Comments »
09 July 2007 (The Nation) - The last time I wrote about the new 7 wonders result, I mentioned that voting patterns were a little skewed. This article quite succintly ... Read more..Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 Posted in Malaysia, UNESCO World Heritage | 1 Comment »
26 June 07 (New Straits Times) - Malaysia has previously pushed for an Asian version of UNESCO, and this call for an Asian chapter of UNESCO is now bolstered by ... Read more..Tuesday, April 24th, 2007 Posted in Borobudur, Indonesia, UNESCO World Heritage | 2 Comments »
24 April 2007 (Jakarta Post) - This news is related to the earlier post about the visual art exhibition on Borobudur in Jogjakarta. Here, the story also touches on the ... Read more..Thursday, April 12th, 2007 Posted in Books, General Archaeology, UNESCO World Heritage | No Comments »
The UNESCO World Heritage Centre has just published a book about the World Heritage charter and the challenges for the new millenium. It's about 200-pages long and available in French ... Read more..Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 Posted in Burma (Myanmar) | No Comments »
12 November 2006 (a Reuters story, seen on CNN) - The restoration of Bagan using modern tools and materials risk turning it into another "Disneyland". Bagan: beautified or sacrificed? Restorations are not ... Read more..