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UNESCO News, Jan 05, 2012


UNESCO: Coimbra University seeking World Heritage status – Portugal
Portuguese American Journal (blog)
The University of Coimbra has submitted a candidacy for UNESCO's World Heritage status. Because the University of Coimbra spreads through many areas of Coimbra city, the candidacy also includes the city of Coimbra as one of Europe's oldest university ...
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Portuguese American Journal (blog)
In Liguria's Coastal Hills, a Storm's Fury Brings a Struggle for Restoration
New York Times
VERNAZZA, Italy — When Unesco added the Cinque Terre, five medieval coastal towns perched along the Ligurian Coast, to its World Heritage List in 1997, it cited “the harmonious interaction between people and nature to produce a landscape of ...
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New York Times
Restoration threatens Georgian medieval masterpiece
AFP
But the Bagrati reconstruction project infuriated UNESCO's World Heritage Committee which monitors the conservation of buildings on the World Heritage List. In 2010, the Committee publicly censured Georgia by putting Bagrati on its 'world heritage in ...
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AFP
UNESCO Says No to Narva Castle
ERR News
Narva Castle's chances of achieving the coveted UNESCO World Heritage Site status have been dashed - a UNESCO inspection committee has turned down a petition to have the structure put on its candidate list. The committee, which visited Estonia in ...
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UNESCO Declares War on Jewish Hevron
Arutz Sheva
Over the years, the UNESCO World Heritage Commission erased Jewish life in Hevron by supporting the Palestinian Arab claims. In 2002, UNESCO criticized “the destruction and damage caused to the cultural heritage in the Palestinian Territories, ...
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Unesco team visits heritage sites
The Hindu
Efforts to put Golconda Fort, Charminar and Qutb Shahi Tombs in the 'World Heritage' list received a fillip with Unesco representatives visiting these places here on Wednesday. The representatives met GHMC Commissioner MT Krishna Babu accompanied by ...
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Top 2011 events in culture, sports and tourism
Viet Nam News
The Ho Dynasty Citadel, a national heritage site of Viet Nam in the northern province of Thanh Hoa, was recognised by UNESCO as world cultural heritage. Built of stone in 1397, with four gates facing north, south, east, and west, it is of stone ...
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Palestine Blunder Costs UNESCO $167 Million in 2012-2013
Canada Free Press
The issue set to erupt next month - as revealed by Giulio Meotti - involves Palestine applying forUNESCO World Heritage listing for the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron - a site holy to both Jews and Moslems. “It's a mosque!, You don't have to be an ...
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Confrontation brews as UN World Heritage pact turns 40
The Japan Times
UNESCO's World Heritage Committee convenes a regular session every summer to examine requests from countries to place their sites on the list. In recent years, the committee has often decided to inscribe sites of some developing countries that experts ...
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Yellowstone says it may need to import grizzlies to improve genetics
Billings Gazette
20 and will be submitted with the final report to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Dave Hallac, the new scientific chief for the park, said the report is an important way to tell the committee, as well as people of the world, how the park has been ...
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Heritage tag: Experts inspect Charminar
Times of India
... state department of archaeology and museums and Intach on Tuesday conducted an inspection of the historic Charminar to determine whether measures taken to conserve the monument were good enough to deem it fit for Unesco's World Heritage Site status ...
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SAVVY TRAVELLER: Amidst ancient charms
New Straits Times
Chichen Itza, Mexico, one of the seven wonders of the world and a Unesco WorldHeritage Site, is a breathtaking destination to visit. Pronounced cheee-chehn-eeeet-zah, this pre-Hispanic city in the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico is about a two-hour bus ...
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New Straits Times
Historic Dutch town wants place on Unesco list
Radio Netherlands
Just to be clear: the Netherlands is already home to a few – very tangible - UNESCO World Heritage Sites, including the Amsterdam canals and the Kinderdijk windmills. If Hindeloopen wants to stand a chance of being recognised by UNESCO, it will have to ...
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Govt goes all out to get Delhi's name in UNESCOs heritage cities
Hindustan Times
Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit is going all out to ensure that the national Capital gets to theUNESCO's list of World Heritage Cities. Dikshit called a meeting of all agencies concerned to iron out the issues required for completing the ...
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Win a fabulous World Heritage site book
Belper News
IT HAS been a year of celebrations for the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site in 2011. As well as three mill centenaries, it has been the tenth anniversary of the site's inscription on to UNESCO's World Heritage list. And now, the final event to ...
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Belper News
Japan prepares to nominate more sites for registration on global list
The Japan Times
Japan is seeking to place an increasing number of natural and cultural sites onUNESCO's World Heritage list, which already has 16 properties from the nation. Among them is the Amami and Ryukyu island chain in Kagoshima and Okinawa prefectures. ...
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The Japan Times
2012 World Heritage Calendar In Online Version
Huffington Post UK
A UNESCO World Heritage Site is a place - whether a natural site like a forest, mountain or lake or a man-made monument or building - that has been deemed by the organisation as having special cultural or physical significance. ...
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Victoria Falls loses out in new world seven wonders poll
Zimbabwe Independent
In 2007, Unesco reaffirmed that there that there is no link whatsoever between Unesco's WorldHeritage programme, which aims to protect world heritage, and the current campaign concerning the “New 7 Wonders of the World”. Victoria Falls was a natural ...
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Europe anoints cities in Slovenia, Portugal for 2012
Chicago Tribune
Both are small, off-the-beaten-path cities, and both contain medieval-era Old Towns recently designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Maribor is within a few hours of Vienna, Guimaraes within a few hours of Lisbon. Both cities occupy notable wine ...
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Chicago Tribune
Fort, batik factory make interesting side trips
Austin American-Statesman
The fort is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As part of a technology change, commenting will not be available on some articles for a number of months. Read more about the change here. By Pam LeBlanc ST. KITTS — As hard as it is for a scuba diver to admit ...
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Austin American-Statesman
Palestine's UN recognition bid: What now?
Ahram Online
These are the words of a 55-year-old Palestinian resident in Ramallah who said he was proud and glad to see the Palestinian flag flying at the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO). In September, president of the Palestinian ...
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Ahram Online
Protecting Libya's Heritage as Country Tries to Resurrect Tourism Industry
Tripoli Post
These historic treasures, including six UNESCO World Heritage sites, have suffered years of neglect and most recently the perils of conflict. During the conflict in Libya there were allegations that pro-Gaddafi troops and missiles were being hidden in ...
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Where in the world? Top trips for 2012
Evening Standard
... lotus flower-inspired spa treatments and five restaurants and bars (£130 B&B, mui-ne.anantara.com) The 172-room St Regis Mauritius Resort opens in May on Le Morne Beach, on the south-western side of the island near a Unesco World Heritage Site, ...
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Evening Standard
A Korean Spring?
Huffington Post (blog)
Gangjeong is home to a UNESCO World Heritage site, a UNESCO biosphere reserve, and a government-designated "absolute preservation area" characterized by rare rock formations, abundant and fertile farmlands, pristine fresh and sea waters, and endangered ...
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More than a question of semantics
Gladstone Observer
She wants to know why, if GPC was unconcerned by UNESCO's queries last year regarding WorldHeritage status, it is now so eager to make the change. She believes industrial development, mainly dredging and LNG development, was being pushed ahead at such ...
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Yakushima seeks environment-tourism balance
The Japan Times
Yakushima Island off Kagoshima Prefecture in 1993 became the country's first natural site to be entered on UNESCO's World Heritage list, together with the Shirakami Mountain Range in northeastern Japan. Visitors take photos of the tree, estimated to be...
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The Japan Times
India will Emerge as a Major Player in the Science World Before the End of ...
Press Information Bureau (press release)
It is only fitting that we meet in Bhubaneswar, when the UNESCO – Kalinga prize for Science popularization instituted by Shri Biju Patnaik 60 years ago is being celebrated. Let me also join in welcoming the distinguished delegates to the Science ...
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UNESCO World Heritage - My news reader
UNESCO World Heritage news - latest news from newspapers, magazines and blogs. My newsreader - breaking news from all over the world: simply ...
www.mynewsreader.com/116204/unesco+world+heritage/
UNESCO cuts funds for Palestinian magazine | World news | The ...
UNESCO said in a statement it "strongly deplores and condemns" the " unacceptable" material and would cease funding the magazine. UNESCO also said it ...
www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/10009198
World News - undpi.org
A Mexican physiologist and neurobiologist renowned for his work on sleep has won a United Nations award honouring those who have helped to promote ...
www.undpi.org/.../Mexican-specialist-wins-UNESCO-award-f...
Antara News : Past Year Marked By Intense RI-UNESCO Engagement
In his speech at the UNESCO Headquarters in November 2011, Yudhoyono called on all parties in theworld to join Indonesia in creating a new approach to the ...
www.antaranews.com/.../past-year-marked-by-intense-ri-unesc...
UNESCO cuts funding for Palestinian youth magazine | EJU.org
The UN cultural agency UNESCO said Friday it's pulling funding for the Palestinian youth magazine Zayzafouna over an "unacceptable" article suggesting ...
www.eju.org/.../unesco-cuts-funding-palestinian-youth-magazi...
Thailand celebrates Wat Pho as UNESCO Memory of the World
Thailand recently celebrated the stone inscriptions in Wat Pho as registered “ Memory of the World” by UNESCO. The 10-day celebration took place from 24 ...
www.unescobkk.org/.../thailand-celebrates-wat-pho-as-unesco...
UNESCO-HELP World Conference: Iowa Reflections
UNESCO-HELP World Conference: Iowa Reflections. On November 21st-25th members of the Iowa-Cedar UNESCO-HELP basin joined those from all over the ...
iowacedarbasin.org/.../unesco-help-world-conference-iowa-ref...
Mexican specialist wins UNESCO award for Science [newKerala ...
Read the full story of Mexican specialist wins UNESCO award for Science - Bhubaneswar, Jan 4: A Mexican physiologist and ... Read other world-news stories ...
www.newkerala.com/news/2011/worldnews-138810.html
  
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