Culture
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15.04.12:
Logurkaq - Trailer
According to the Akha tradition, the birth of twins bodes extreme ill fortune. Thus, in the past, twins were killed at birth. Bugeu and Buga are twins born in the Akha culture. To circumvent the tradition, the girls are separated at birth. Buga grows...
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17.02.12:
Post-Flood Recovery of the Ayutthaya World Heritage Site
Tim Curtis, chief of Culture unit, UNESCO Bangkok, talked to Asean TV about the Ayutthaya World Heritage Site after the 2011 floods in Thailand. In the interview he answers on the initial damage assessments, explores mid and long-term requirements of...
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17.11.11:
UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation
The UNESCO Asia-Pacific Awards for Cultural Heritage Conservation were established in 2000 to recognize the achievement of the private sector and public-private initiatives in successfully restoring structures of heritage value in the region.
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09.11.11:
A Right to Belong (Trailer)
The lack of citizenship has been identified as major risk factor for highland people in Thailand to be trafficked or, otherwise, exploited. Without legal status, ethnic minority people are considered illegal and subject to arrest, deportation, extort...
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15.11.10:
Children’s Traditional Games in the Asia-Pacific Region
UNESCO Bangkok is contributing to the safeguarding of endangered traditional children’s games in targeted Asian-Pacific countries through a project funded by the Republic of Korea Funds-in-Trust through the support of the City of Gangneung. Children’...
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30.09.10:
Exploring Underwater Heritage
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20.10.09:
Indonesian Batik - Inscribed in 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
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08.10.09:
Quan Họ Bắc Ninh folk songs - the World Intangible Heritage from Viet Nam
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13.01.09:
Thailand’s three award-winning projects
Ms Montira Horayangura Unakul, a specialist with UNESCO Bangkok’s Culture unit talks about Thailand’s three award-winning projects, which received accolades at the 2008 annual UNESCO Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards, during an interview with NBT’s Mornin...
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22.07.08:
The Director's interview with ThaiPBS Channel on Preah Vihear - 3 July 2008
