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Macao's tourism success prompts diversification plan
With its rich tourism resources, Macao is one of the few holiday destinations in the world to have sustained stable development despite ongoing uncertainties in the world's financial markets. (Photo: China Daily)
With visitor numbers soaring to a
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Polish Police Probe Foreign Link in Auschwitz Theft
KRAKOW, Poland (Reuters) - Polish police are investigating a possible international link in the theft of the metal sign that hung over the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, they said on Tuesday. Police recovered the German language sign, which reads
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Group blasts UNESCO over Equatorial Guinea link
A human rights watchdog group says the U.N.'s culture and education agency is being hypocritical by collaborating with Equatorial Guinea's dictator.
In a statement Tuesday, Global Witness called on UNESCO to cancel the $300,000 UNESCO-Obiang Nguema
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China's five sites listed UNESCO World Heritage
The World Heritage certificates confering ceremony is held in Beijing, capital of China, on Dec. 23, 2009. Representatives of the five sites in China that have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which is Mount Wutai, the unique
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$4.3 million programme to develop Jordan's adaptation to climate change
25 December 2009
AMMAN - The Ministry of Environment has launched a $4.3 million programme to develop the Kingdom's adaptation to climate change and sustain its Millennium Development Goal (MDG) achievements.
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People still not prepared to face tsunami even after 5 yrs of Indian Ocean disaster
London, December 26 (ANI): Experts have determined that even after five years of the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami that struck Indonesia, local communities are not well prepared to face such a disaster, despite the fact that the technology is
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Silk Road for registration on UNESCO list
2009-12-27 06:04:44 - Turkey, Iran, Italy,Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan have teamed up on a plan spearheaded by China to apply for registration of their portion of the Silk
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Seoul Factory from Korea to perform 'Medea and its Double' at La MaMa, NYC
Kyoung Lee and See-yeon Koo as the two Medeas. Photo courtesy of Seoul Factory.
Seoul Factory for the Performing Arts (SFPA), led by Artistic Director Hyoung-Taek Limb, makes its debut at New York's famed La MaMa Experimental Theater January 7 to 24, 2
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Comeback queen Henin arrives
Henin is currently third in betting for the Australian Open, behind world No.1 Serena Williams and Clijsters.
Armed with a stronger serve which she hopes will be a genuine weapon, Henin will use the lessons of her first career, when insular and
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Nigeria: Setting Agenda for Education Managers in 2010
AS year 2010 rolls in tomorrow, the managers of the nation's education sector will be doing Nigerians a whole lot of good by making a new year resolution of taking the sector to an unprecedented higher level in 2010.
These managers of the education
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INDONESIA: Tsunami early warning system a work in progress
JAKARTA, 31 December 2009 (IRIN) - Five years after the Indian Ocean tsunami, Indonesia’s early warning system remains a work in progress, officials and experts say.
Indonesia began setting up an early warning system in 2005, a year after a 9.2 Richter
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Peru's colonial jewel to be restored
This is the first programme, both in scope and magnitude, tackling the dangerous problems that low income urban families face, UN Development Programme (UNDP) Resident Representative Jorge Chediek said. For the first time in history, the precarious
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UN opens biodiversity year
"Humans are part of nature's rich diversity and have the power to protect or destroy it," the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which is hosted by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), said in summarizing the Year's main
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Bewitched in Brussels
Brussels is a rich mix of old world grandeur and new-age cosmopolitanism. It has interesting neighbours too, discovers SADHNA SHANKER
On reaching the platform, after climbing the steep 226 steps, all we could see was a vast expanse of green with
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Nollywood On Our Mind
Lagos — Nigeria's film industry has become the world's second largest, churning out thousands of films every year. Most are made on budgets ranging from $10,000 to $25,000. However, CHINYERE OKOYE looks at the lightning growth of the industry with 2009
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Gulf Eco Symposium to present overview of Oman Botanic Garden
05 January 2010
Muscat - The upcoming Gulf Eco 2010 Symposium will provide a unique platform for environment enthusiasts to have an overview of the Oman Botanic Garden, which is being created to help protect the country's plants and
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Two Sweden-based suspects may be charged over Auschwitz theft
Source: ReutersThe gate at the entrance to the Auschwitz death camp
Polish prosecutors want to question two people in Sweden who
they believe orchestrated the theft last month of the infamous
"Arbeit macht frei" sign at the entrance of the former Nazi
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Journey to the South West II
The next day from Kunming East Bus Station we set off for Shilin National Park. Proclaimed a UNESCO world heritage site and national geo-park the area is specially protected.
I was shocked that on the bus the driver decided to play a very
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in wintry Helsinki
HELSINKI (Reuters Life!) - Got 48 hours in Helsinki, where forward-looking creation and converging worldwide influences give a fresh twist to the city's rich heritage?
Reuters correspondents with local knowledge help you to get the most out of a
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UN to issue report on impact of global financial crisis on children's education
Reverberations from the global financial crisis continues to jeopardize the education of millions of children in the world's poorest countries, warns a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report, which is set to be
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Spain begins to flood park with peat fire
MADRID -- Hoping to save a dried Spanish wetland from an underground peat fire, the government has unleashed floodwaters onto an expanse of the marsh now under threat due to past water mismanagement.
The wetlands of Las Tablas de Daimiel National
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Spanish Wetland Under Attack From Underground Peat Fire
The Spanish government is hoping to save a dried wetland from an underground peat fire by unleashing floodwaters onto an expanse of the marsh now under threat due to past water mismanagement, The Associated Press reported.
UNESCO recognizes the
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UNESCO to help India achieve universal education
Talking to reporters here on Monday, UNESCO''s Director General, Irina Bokova said that it was extremely important to promote primary education for children from 6-14.
I do believe that India can reach by 2015... the millennium development goal, so we
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India to spend Rs 200 crore for tiger conservation: Jairam Ramesh
Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said that India will spend around Rs 200 crore over the next five years for the development of Sundarbans biosphere in West Bengal.
Sunderbans is a UNESCO World Heritage site and a home
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ProQuest Acquires IBSS
ANN ARBOR, Mich., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest, an information technology firm supporting global research, has acquired the London School of Economics' classic International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS). Established in 1951, IBSS is
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Iceland should train India on geothermal energy: Abdullah
Addressing the India-Iceland workshop on Renewable Energy here, the minister listed out areas likely for cooperation between the two countries including technology transfer on deep drilling, reservoir assessment and setting up of geothermal
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All UNESCO aid workers survive Haiti quake
PARIS, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) confirmed Friday that all its 14 staff working in Haiti have survived Tuesday's major earthquake.
The UN body had earlier said eight staff members
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Iran may cut British Museum ties in antiquity row
TEHRAN, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Iran will cut its links with the British Museum and ask bodies such as UNESCO to reconsider their own ties if the museum does not keep a promise to lend Iran an ancient Persian treasure, Iranian media reported on Sunday.
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INTERVIEW-Haitian education system 'totally collapsed'
* Half of schools, three main universities hit
* Temporary classrooms must be built
* Children need to return to studies to reduce trauma
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Half of Haiti's schools and its three main universities were destroyed or
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UN report: Crisis will keep children out of school
PARIS (AP) -- The world financial crisis not only hurt balance sheets but could sabotage poor countries' efforts to get more children into school, according to a report released Tuesday by the U.N. education agency.
UNESCO urged more funding and
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UN report: Crisis will keep children out of school
UNESCO urged more funding and attention for those shut out of education systems such as ethnic minorities and rural girls, who make up a disproportionate part of the legions of school-age children who have never seen the inside of a classroom.
“The
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Stonehenge is latest location on Google's Street View
Stonehenge can be explored with the click of a mouse from today
as the nation's most famous sites have been added to Google's
Street View mapping.
Over 20 historic locations across the UK - including castles,
landscapes and country houses - have been
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Hydroelectric plant donated to help save rice terraces in northern Philippines
The terraces, the main tourist attraction in the northern Cordillera region, were included in the UNESCO's list of World Heritage Sites in Danger in 2001 after about 30 per cent of them were found abandoned. Damage to some of their stone and mud walls
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Alexander McCall Smith picks comforts of home to launch new book
Alexander McCall Smith has chosen The Edinburgh Bookshop in Bruntsfield Place to host the launch of The Double Comfort Safari Club, the 11th novel in the Botswana-based series.
The shop will host a public launch on 3 March, with staff moving acros
s
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Troops clash at disputed border
CAMBODIAN and Thai troops have exchanged fire near a disputed border temple - the latest in a string of gun battles between the countries since last year, military officials say.
Both sides denied responsibility for starting this morning's skirmish, in
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Madagascar government’s logging policy threatens the island’s natural heritage
Madagascar’s government decision to allow the export of endangered rosewood may have disastrous consequences for some of the country’s unique plant and animal species, and further impoverish the large island state.
Under past Malagasy legislation it
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Liverpool Local News: UNESCO City of Music status bid for Liverpool a step closer
LIVERPOOL’S rich cultural heritage is a step closer to winning UNESCO city of music status.
Merseyside’s musical movers and shakers met last night to put together a bid for the prestigious title, currently held by just four cities
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Bahrain seeks UNESCO listing for pearl diving plan
MANAMA: There was a time when Yousif al-Alawi could cast a line straight into the sea and fish from the roof of his old family home.
Tags: bahrain,pearl diving,UNESCO heritage
Broken seashells are still visible in the material used to build the
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Olympics: Cancel New Year parade? No way in hell, say Chinese
Vancouver (AFP) - Vancouver's Chinese community had a defiant message for Winter Olympics organisers when it was suggested they should cancel their longstanding Lunar New Year parade - 'no way in hell'.
The city’s 36th annual parade, which will usher
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UNESCO calls for ban in trade in Haitian artifacts
DAVOS, Switzerland - The United Nations' culture and education agency called Friday for a ban in the trade of Haitian artifacts to prevent the pillaging of cultural treasures in the aftermath of its devastating earthquake.
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World Book Fair inaugurated in Delhi
The 19th World Book Fair began at the Pragati Maidan here Saturday with \\\'India- The Nehru-Gandhi family and indigenous publishing\\\' as its spotlight.
The nine-day fair, organised by the National Book Trust (NBT), has 35 foreign publishers
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World Book Fair inaugurated in Delhi
New Delhi, Jan 31 (ANI): The 19th World Book Fair began in New Delhi on Saturday.
The fair has 2,400 stalls and 1,199 participants and representation from international bodies like ILO, WHO and UNESCO.
Ruskin Bond, the literary laureate who has been
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Feb. 2: Letters to the editor
B ribes for peace Further to the matter of a bribery plan to obtain a Taliban peace, the ancient Romans tried the same approach with the rampaging Goths ( Canadian Envoy Warns Against NATO Plan For Taliban Peace – Feb. 1). The Goths took the money and –
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Holon: A town a head of the curve
“ P eople never went to Holon from Tel Aviv unless they were coming home from work or going for their driving lessons,” designer Ron Arad tells me from London. Holon, a bedroom community 20 minutes from Tel Aviv, is where locals traditionally learned to
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Kangra railway seeks world heritage status
Dharamshala, Feb 3 (ANI): Tour operators and locals in Himachal Pradesh are upbeat over the prospects of pre-independence era Kangra valley railway from Kalka to Shimla being included in UNESCO's World Heritage status.
State Chief Minister P.K. Dhumal,
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Misplaced Blame for Venezuela’s Woes
The campus of the Central University of Venezuela is a UNESCO landmark, a perfect example of the tropical modernism of the 1960s. I visited just a few days ago to talk to students and faculty and noticed something strange: Every clock in the building
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UNESCO to find ways to bolster tolerance worldwide
The world, said Director-General Irina Bokova, is marked by a growing interdependence, but mistrust has also arisen in recent years.
"I am convinced that UNESCO has all the strengths needed to provide a humanist response to globalization and crisis,"
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Mexico asks UNESCO to protect country's cuisine
Mexico asks UNESCO to protect country's cuisine By CATHERINE E. SHOICHET Associated Press Writer More News Mexico already has many of its monuments on UNESCO's list of protected sites. Now the government is asking for international recognition for the
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Iran cuts ties with British Museum over treasure
AFP - Iran is cutting ties with the British Museum in protest at repeated delays in the loan to Tehran of an ancient Persian treasure, the Cyrus Cylinder, local media reported on Sunday.
"Since the Cyrus Cylinder has not been transferred to Iran, we
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Chemistry course for school teachers 'a success'
Los kits que usan los profesores tiene cerca de 20 reactivos
[SANTIAGO] Un curso práctico de química a pequeña escala organizado por la Universidad de Chile con patrocinio de la UNESCO, permitirá a profesores latinoamericanos de secundaria acercar la
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Cardinale virtues of a screen life
GAZING on the young Claudia Cardinale, with that gracefully swan-like neck, hypnotisingly dark eyes and curvaceous figure, it's not hard to see why she was dubbed Italy's brunette answer to Brigitte Bardot's blonde bombshell in the early 1960s. Bardot
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Work to restore 17th century palace begins
SRIVILLIPUTHUR: The Archaeological Survey of India has taken up preliminary work to restore an intact 17th century palace in south Tamil Nadu, the Thirumalai Naicker Palace, in this temple town. The ASI has also recommended that the palace be included
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Teachers and students increasingly under attack, UNESCO warns
A new report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has found that politically and ideologically motivated attacks against teachers, students and schools are on the rise, calling for greater community
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Attacks targeting teachers and students worldwide on the rise
The number of politically and ideologically motivated attacks on teachers, students and school buildings is rising, says the report Education Under Attack 2010, launched by UNESCO on 10 February.
These attacks are perpetrated by non-state armed groups
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New UNESCO report warns of rise in global attacks on teachers, students
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Friday sounded the alarm in their newest report launched here on the rise of global attacks against teachers and students, warning that such politically and ideologically
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UT starts preparing revised dossier
CHANDIGARH: Unable to make it to the
UNESCO world heritage sites for the past two consecutive years, the UT
administration has now begun the process to prepare a revised dossier.
Though till now, Chandigarh?s nomination for finding a place on
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Official: Save, don't bulldoze, Haiti's heritage
FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2010 file photo, people walk by the Cathedral which collapsed during an earthquake in Port-au-Prince. Haiti's historical heritage risks being bulldozed in the push to rebuild towns and cities flattened by last month's earthquake,
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SCTDA initiates its European road show
Mohammed Ali. Al Noman, Director General of SCTDA right and Professor Ahmet Emre Bilgili, Director of Culture and Tourism Istanbul.
The launch ceremony was held at the Intercontinental Istanbul Hotel, and was attended by Professor Ahmet Emre Bilgili,
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In America, 191 Languages are Endangered or Extinct
When Boa Sr of India died in early February at age 85, her mother tongue died with her. She spoke Bo, a language thought to be 65,000 years old. In the United States, 191 languages are threatened or extinct, according to the U.N. educational,
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International education experts gather at Global Education Forum 2010
"This year's key notes speakers selected to participate at GEF represent some of the most renowned global experts in their fields, currently working to shape the educational landscape internationally. We are delighted to bring such specialists to the
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Top 10 big cities that are not capitals
SYDNEY - What's the capital of Australia? If you answered Sydney, you're wrong but in good company, with travel Web site VirtualTourist.com coming up with a list of the 10 most surprising non-capital cities in the world.
"We've been conditioned to
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Marine spatial planning: A more balanced approach to ocean management
DURHAM, N.C. -- The old balkanized approach to ocean management, in which different resources and activities are governed by different laws and administered by different agencies, has failed to protect ocean ecosystems or reduce conflicts between ocean
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Morocco police to probe mosque collapse
Morocco's government has ordered a police investigation into the collapse of a centuries-old mosque that left 41 people dead, state news agency MAP reported on Sunday.
The Lalla Khenata mosque's minaret collapsed in the old Bab el Bardiyine
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Microsoft throws a lifeline to endangered languages
Microsoft has announced an initiative to help save thousands of rare languages.
The company’s Office, Windows and Visual Studio programs will, for the first time, be equipped with new language packs and methods for communities to develop IT terminology
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Making technology speak your language
Microsoft and UNESCO are working together to help people across the globe access technology in their own languages.
According to recent reports, one of more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth disappears from the face of our planet every 14 days;
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Iraqi Officials, Experts Appeal To UN For Drought
Given the potential impact of continued
droughts in Iraq, some national officials and experts have
asked for United Nations assistance in planning for and in
mitigating the dangers of prolonged dry spells.
The call
came at the Workshop on Integrated
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Top Scientists to Discuss Global Changes at Arctic Conference in Miami
Conference will discuss latest research on the changing climate in the Arctic
Hundreds of the world's top scientists and policymakers are expected to attend the State of the Arctic conference at the Miami Hyatt Regency from March 16 - 19, 2010.
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Israel Won't Drag Palestinians To Violence: Fayyad
Israel's plan to include West Bank religious sites in a Jewish heritage plan is a clear provocation but the Palestinians will not be dragged into violence, the Palestinian prime minister said Friday.
Protesting at what he said was a
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The Great One-Man Commedia Epic
Matthew R. Wilson is a breath of fresh air, a Miracle Man, a robust Harlequin with many faces. From the moment Wilson somersaults on stage and stares at us in terror and runs for the nearest EXIT, he throws us off-guard. A master of many masks, he’s an
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Daily Radar: 03.01.10
Folks all around the world are helping the people of Haiti recover from the massive earthquake the country's capital suffered in January. UNESCO has stepped in to help protect the country's damaged heritage, from paintings and sculptures to museum
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Morocco: In Meknès, a Devastating Accident
On February 19, devastating news from Morocco: the minaret of the Bab Berdieyinne Mosque (also known as the Lalla Khenata bint Bekkar Mosque) in the UNESCO heritage city of Meknès, Morocco (where I lived from 2005-2007) had collapsed during Friday
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Macao to share experience of historic buildings preservation at Shanghai World Expo
Macao is keen to share its experience of restoration and re-use of historic buildings through its Urban Best Practice Area showcase at the upcoming Shanghai World Expo, the head of Macao's preparation office for the Expo said on Saturday.
The
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Analysis of Chinese terracotta stallions points to horse castration 2000 years ago
Wellington, March 3 (ANI): A study of the terracotta horses within the tomb of a Chinese emperor has revealed that many of the animals had no testicles, pointing to the possibility of the castration of horses some 2000 years ago.
He noted that all the 5
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UNESCO allocates over $2 million for 84 media development projects
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has awarded $2.1 million for 84 media development projects from around the world, ranging from producing programs in indigenous languages in Mexico to training journalists
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Spanish bullfighting should be given UNESCO protection
Esperanza Aguirre has called on UNESCO to offer bullfighting protection – similar to that given to sites and attractions such as the Terracotta
Warriors in China.
The move comes as the Catalan parliament is to debate whether to put a stop to
what
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FORBIDDEN CITY CHINA - The best preserved Palace complex in the world
2010-03-06 13:47:17 - The city of Beijing swirls around the mystery of The Forbidden City of China. It is the largest ancient palatial structure in the world and is also recognized as one of the most important five
from home and abroad.
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Governor General's Itinerary for the Republic of Haiti
2010-03-07 19:46:02 -
OTTAWA, ONTARIO -- (Marketwire) -- 03/07/10 -- At the request of the prime minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, Her Excellency Michaelle Jean, Governor General of Canada, accompanied by her husband, Mr. Jean-Daniel
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UNESCO figure behind NZ’s world heritage hopes
If a group in Brasilia vote for world heritage starlight
reserves in July, former Cabinet minister Margaret Austin
will have played a key part in fighting to get world night
sky reserves established.
Austin has been leading a
campaign to ensure Tekapo
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UN seeking critical funding for tens of thousands of Congo refugee
UNHCR will today be appealing for some $20 million in funding to help it meet the needs of tens of thousands of refugees in Republic of Congo (RoC) who
have recently fled ethnic conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo's Equateur Province.
UNHCR's
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Russian ecologists organize coalition to cancel Putin's resolution on Baikal mill
Russian ecologists organized a coalition to stop Lake Baikal pollution by a pulp and paper mill which was reopened after being suspended for 16 months due to ecological concerns, a statement on the Greenpeace Russia website said.
The coalition is also
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196 Indian languages on UNESCO's endangered list
Minister of State for Human Resource Development D Purandeswari said in written replies in the Rajya Sabha today that all the languages listed by the UNESCO were not recognised as languages in the Census of India Report in 2001.
The endangered
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Flaming torches light up Britain's Hadrian's Wall
A volunteer looks on after a beacon is lit on Hadrian's Wall at Steel Rigg Northumberland. Hadrian's Wall, a Roman-era fortification spanning the width of northern England, was lit up from end-to-end by volunteers carrying flaming torches Saturday.
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Flaming torches light up Britain's Hadrian's Wall
AFP - Hadrian's Wall, a Roman-era fortification spanning the width of northern England, was lit up from end-to-end by volunteers carrying flaming torches.
As night fell, 500 gas flames were lit at 250-metre intervals for 84 miles (135 kilometres) from
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Merseytravel: Merseytravel Environmental Sustainability Report for 2008/09
Merseytravel have released their latest annual Environmental Sustainability Report for 2008/09, highlighting some very positive statistics and underlining the ongoing commitment to sustainability.
The findings published in the report include a 14%
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IndiaMART.com Supports the Largest Citizen-Driven Initiative to Clean Yamuna
2010-03-16 08:27:02 -
Living, but it's now a full blown Citizen’s Action Plan. Dozens of NGOs and Companies have already joined as Partners.
Yamuna is immensely important for the economic, ecological and basic needs of the region and its
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Fire destroys Uganda World Heritage Site mausoleum
KAMPALA (Reuters) - Fire has destroyed much of the Kasubi Tombs in Uganda, the final resting place of royalty and a UNESCO World Heritage Site dating back 150 years, police said on Wednesday.
The cause of the blaze which started early on Tuesday night
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Freedom Schooner Amistad Visits Cuba Next Week
WASHINGTON, March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The Freedom Schooner Amistad will visit Cuba next week as part of the United Nations commemoration of March 25 as the global Day of Remembrance for the victims of the Atlantic slave trade.
The Amistad will enter
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Azerbaijani embassy in Uzbekistan marks Navruz holiday
The Azerbaijani Embassy in Uzbekistan hosted a great event to celebrate the Navruz holiday. The embassy invited the heads of state institutions, the Uzbek public organizations, representatives of embassies and other foreign missions accredited in
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Espaa verde
Our second morning started bright and early with the same wonderful breakfast spread, albeit sans smoked salmon. Annoying. Once fattened up it was off to the buses and back to the University of Cantabria. There we broke into small groups to discuss our
