Myanmar seeks to restrict construction in the Pyu cities zone
Myanmar moves to restrict construction within the newly-listed Pyu Cities World Heritage Site zone in order to protect them. Pyu ...
Tag: Unesco World Heritage
News reports and information related to Unesco World Heritage in Southeast Asia, including the Tentative List, Memory of the World and nominations to the list.
Vietnam’s Trang An landscapes inscribed to World Heritage
Besides Myanmar, Vietnam saw the addition of another World Heritage site, the Trang An Scenic Landscape in Ninh Binh Province, ...
Pyu cities are Myanmar’s first World Heritage Site
The 38th World Heritage Committee meeting is wrapping up in Doha, and this year we have inscribed the first World ...
Old Jakarta aims for World Heritage listing
The dossier is being prepared to list Old Jakarta as a World Heritage site within the next two years. Old ...
Hoi An revamps ticketing system
The ticketing system for Hoi An has been revamped to combat widespread inefficiencies in the present system. Proceeds from the ...
Raising local appreciation of heritage sites through photography
Despite the earlier troubles reported about local tensions at the Ho Citadel site, there is also another project to help ...
Managing the Ho Citadel site more difficult than imagined
Vietnam's Ho Citadel in Thanh Hoa Province was declared a World Heritage Site in 2011, but there is a conflict ...
Visits to Lenggong Museum see a sharp rise
The Lenggong Archaeological Museum in Perak sees a sharp rise in visitors because of the rehousing of the Perak Man ...
Unesco offers to draft management plan for Bagan
via Eleven Myanmar, 29 September 2013: UNESCO has offered to assist in drafting a master plan for the up-keeping and ...
Myanmar seeks to list Bagan as a World Heritage Site
Myanmar hopes to put the temples of Bagan in the World Heritage list, and this article discusses why the nomination ...
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