Optimism over Bagan World Heritage listing
Unesco officials working with Myanmar to list Bagan as a World Heritage Site are confident that Bagan will be added ...
Tag: Bagan (site)
Unesco World Heritage site in the Mandalay region of central Myanmar. It was the seat of the Bagan empire from the 11th-13th centuries. Burmese: ပုဂံ
Work begins to nominate Bagan as a World Heritage site
Myanmar is starting to look into listing the Bagan temple complex as a world heritage site, in consultation with Unesco ...
Myanmar bans hotel development around heritage sites
Some welcome news, the Myanmar government has banned hotel development around 46 cultural heritage regions in order to protect sites ...
Inventory of Bagan monuments to be drawn up
Myanmar begins to invetory the monuments of Bagan as a first step to have them listed as a World Heritage ...
Myanmar asks for India’s help in translating King Sawlu inscription
Myanmar requests India’s assistance for translating a Bagan-period inscription discovered last year that dates to the reign of King Sawlu. ...
Japan pledges assistance for Bagan
Japan signed an MOU with Myanmar last week to assist in the development of Bagan. Source: Democratic Voice of Burma, ...
Security cameras for Bagan
Security cameras will be set up around the temples of Bagan in an attempt to combat the increasing crime rate ...
Bagan tourist infrastructure starting to feel the strain
I visited Bagan in 2012 just after finishing some Phd fieldwork – it was just as Myanmar was opening up ...
No more new hotels in Bagan?
I know I just posted a story about a fifth hotel zone to be set up in Bagan, but it ...
Japanese help in preserving Bagan’s murals
Japanese expertise is being lent to help restore the wall murals found in the temple walls of Bagan. Asahi Shimbun, ...
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