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...Entitled “Michael Jackson and Friends,” the superstar was joined by Mariah Carey, Chinese popstars Andy Lau and Leon Lai, Andrea Bocelli, Ringo Starr, Boyz II Men and many other music stars in the extravaganza which raised over $3.3 million for the Red Cross, UNESCO, and the Nelson Mandela Childrens’ Fund...
...bamboo bongs also sell coral and shells stolen from the few reefs that remain. And the grenades and dynamite sticks that you see stored in the cabins below give a blunt indication of the level of respect the fishermen pay to Ha Long Bay's 1994 designation by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site...
...government plans to restore and reconstruct the sanctuary in hopes of transforming it into what Glanzman calls "an eighth wonder of the world" - a tourist attraction comparable to the Pyramids or the Acropolis. (Yemen's political instability, though, makes that scenario unlikely anytime soon.) It also intends to petition unesco to designate Mahram Bilqis as a World Heritage Site...
...Muslim Chams goes by only one name. Yet in September the government is holding a Cham festival at the My Son ruins - the first in hundreds of years. Why the change of heart? Desperate to bring revenue and tourists to the country's neglected central region, and boosted by UNESCO's granting My Son World Heritage status in 1999, the government has begun to promote the ruins and Cham heritage. According to the head of the Vietnam Folk Culture and Arts Association, Nguyen Hai Lien: "The Cham people want to prove that the culture symbolized in the ruins still exists...
...time in decades, a faint beacon of hope pierced the choking fumes: the Tata Group's hotel chain took on the great landmark's preservation. The company has previously converted former palaces into functioning hotels, and promises to bring in international experts from the Getty Foundation, the Smithsonian and UNESCO among others, to help restore damaged engravings and stones and revamp the lighting system. In a move that could spell an end to the bedlam around the entrance gates, Tata also plans a tourist center that will offer interpreters, computerized ticketing, banking, a fleet of shuttle buses, a cafE...