News: UNESCO Asia-Pacific Culture

Thailand: Temple, building and canal win 2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards 29 October 2008
	Wat Pongsanuk, the Amphawa Canal and the Crown Property Bureau Building have won the 2008 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards for Culture Heritage Conservation, The Nation reports. Wat Pongsanuk in Lampang received the Award of Merit while Amphawa Canal Community in Amphawa District, Samut... [more] Category: News and Events
2008 UNESCO Craft Award of Excellence for Handicrafts 14 October 2008
	UNESCO is proud to announce that the Award of Excellence has been awarded to 144 new products this year, including 29 from East Asia, 40 from South Asia, 15 from South-east Asia, and 60 from West and Central Asia. UNESCO would like to congratulate the winners and thank all the 580 applicants for th... [more] Category: News and Events
CollAsia2010 International Course on Buildings: Environments for Collections 03 October 2008
	ICCROM and SEAMEO-SPAFA have announced the next CollAsia2010 International Course on Buildings: Environments for Collections to be held from 10 to 28 November 2008 in Jakarta, Indonesia. The purpose of this course is to strengthen the capacity of the participants to understand and evaluate... [more] Category: News and Events
Kiwi Bach Wins UNESCO Heritage Award 29 September 2008
	A humble kiwi bach on Rangitoto Island has made the big league by winning an international award for heritage conservation - a first for New Zealand. The restoration of 'Bach 38' in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf shares an Honourable Mention in this year's UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards with... [more] Category: News and Events
UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists Programme 2009 09 September 2008
	Applications for the 2009 UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists are now being accepted.   The UNESCO-Aschberg Bursaries for Artists promote the mobility of young artists in order to enrich their personal perspectives, to enable them to engage in an intercultural dialogue and expose them to cultura... [more] Category: News and Events
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Recent Publications

Seeing with Young Eyes: Third Sub-regional Southeast Asian Teacher Training Workshop on Using Art to Teach about World Heritage, Penang, Malaysia 2006 Report of the third Southeast Asian workshop on World Heritage in Young Hands held from 15 to 21 January 2006 in Penang, Malaysia, which provides creative lesson plan tools and an update on country activities. Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok. 2008. 68 p.

Cultural Diversity Programming Lens: Introduction to the Toolkit Provides a framework for analysis of programming documents in line with the principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity, with the objective to advance culturally-appropriate approaches to developing and implementing programmes in all sectors. Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok. 2008. 2 p.

คู่มือแก้ไขปัญหาสถานะบุคคลตามกฎหมาย และการแจ้งเกิดของบุคคลซึ่งเกิดในประเทศไทย เรียบเรียงโดย มูลนิธิพัฒนาการคุ้มครองเด็ก กรุงเทพฯ: ยูเนสโกกรุงเทพ. 2008. 210 หน้า. Manual for Capacity Building on Birth Registration and Citizenship in Thailand By FACE Foundation Bangkok: UNESCO Bangkok. 2008. 174 p. (PDF format, 41 MB)

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Events

Third International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage
 
Research Center for Disaster Mitigation of Urban Cultural Heritage, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto is organizing its Third International Training Course on Disaster Risk Management of Cultural Heritage from 3 to 15 November 2008. The course aims at preparing disaster management plan of a cultural heritage site by taking into consideration the nature of that heritage and the disaster management context of the respective country. [more…]

UNESCO-UNITAR Hiroshima Office Series on the Management and Conservation on World Heritage Sites

The fifth workshop of the Series will be organized from 30 March to 4 April 2008 in Hiroshima, Japan, and will focus on the potential implications and roles of heritage in the promotion of peace, reconciliation and reconstruction in war-torn, post-war and post-disaster societies. Study tours to the two World Heritage sites in Hiroshima – the A-Bomb Dome and Itsukushima Shinto Shrine – will provide a living laboratory and direct learning opportunities. [more...]

Celebration of Our Living Culture

44 Participating Countries (in alphabetical order)
Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao P.D.R., Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, Niue, Pakistan, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, P. R. China, Rep. of Korea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam

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Further Readings

• UNESCO Director-General message on cluster membership of Singapore 
• Jordan cooperates with China on relic protection (Source: People's Daily Online, 10 October 2007)
• UNESCO Director-General condemns the killing of Japanese photo journalist 
• Cambodia bid to protect treasures (Source: BBC News, 27 September 2007)
• The Making of a UNESCO World Heritage Site (Source: Telegraph, 25 August 2007)
• Job Announcement: Cultural Anthropologist/Ethnographer
• HAMPI World Heritage Site (Source: LA, Journal of Landscape Architecture, INDIA, Landscape and Conservation - I: Perspectives, Spring 2007, Vol. IV, Issue 4, Issue No. 16)
• UNESCO adds 38 cultural items to heritage list (Source: Mail & Guardian online, 20 June 2007)
• Mapping HIV/AIDS, human trafficking and culture (Source: Position Magazine, Issue 29, June-July 2007)