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Unesco listing threatens protected culture in Malaysian state

2012-06-04 2 Dailymotion

The United Nations cultural and education agency, Unesco, is to hold a meeting in Brasilia on Sunday to consider new properties for its list of World Heritage sites.<br /><br />Two years ago, the status was given to Malaysia's colonial city of George Town, on the northern island of Penang.<br /><br />The listing has spurred a conservation movement and a property boom, raising George Town's profile but possibly changing the very culture Unesco wants to protect.<br /><br />Gerald Tan reports. (July 26, 2010)

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