Russell Leiman, the Nature Conservancy’s Managing Director for the Asia-Pacific Region and Hubert Gijzen, Director of UNESCO’s Regional Science Bureau for Asia and the Pacific, signed a renewed Memorandum of Understanding in Jakarta on November 21, 2008.

Annual celebration of philosophy initiated by UNESCO in 2005, the 2008 edition of World Philosophy Day takes place in honour of the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration for Human Rights.

This is the first international training course prepared by the World Heritage Training and Research Institute for the Asia and the Pacific Region (WHITR-AP) in collaboration with the International Organization for Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ICCROM), on Management Planning for Cultural Herit...

Bangkok, 12 November 2008 – UNESCO Bangkok will recognize the outstanding restoration of the Wat Pongsanuk in Lampang at a ceremony to be held on 16 November 2008 at the temple at 16:00. The conservation of this significant heritage building was awarded an Award of Merit in the 2008 annual UNESCO As...

The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, has named the laureates of the 2008 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education. They were selected on the recommendation of an international jury whose meeting this year was held...