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HIST Summary Meeting for 2014
On December 29th, HIST Summary Meeting for 2014 was held on AIR campus. All the HIST Staff including the director, deputy directors and secretary-general, attended the meeting.
12/292014 -
21st session of the International Coordinating Committee (IC...
Mr. Hong Tianhua, Executive Deputy Director and Secretary-General of HIST and Prof. Natarajan Ishwaran, State Recruited Expert working with HIST on international cooperation projects attended the 21st
12/242014 -
UNESCO Conference calls for protected cultural zones to be e...
UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova today called for the creation of “protected cultural zones” around heritage sites in Syria and Iraq. Opening an international conference on threats to cultural heritage and di...
12/052014 -
HIST DELEGATION PARTICIPATES IN THE 6th WORLD PARKS CONGRESS
World Parks Congresses (WPC) are decennial events hosted under the auspices of the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of the International Union of Conservation of
11/192014 -
NASA Administrator Visits AIR
On November 13, AIR Director-General and CAS Member GUO Huadong met with a visiting US delegation headed by NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden in Beijing.
11/172014 -
Prof. Natarajan Ishwaran Attended the Beijing-Tianjin Academ...
Binhai New Area is a sub-provincial region under the jurisdiction of Tianjin Municipality, China. Building upon previous experiments in Shenzhen and Pudong of Shanghai, Binhai has been set up a new growth area
11/032014 -
First Entrepreneurship Field Training held for African site ...
This Field Training Workshop was devoted to developing a Business Plan and budget for seven pilot projects aimed at bringing direct economic benefits to communities living in or nea
10/302014 -
11 new sites added to Global Geoparks Network
Eleven new sites were added to the Global Geoparks Network at the 6th Global Geoparks Conference, held in the Stonehammer Global Geopark, Canada from 18 to 22 September.
10/142014 -
AIR and HIST Sign MOU with Cambodian APSARA to Provide China...
An MOU is signed between The Aerospace Information Research Institute (AIR), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the International Centre on Space Technologies for Natural
09/122014 -
Emergency Response Action Plan to safeguard Iraqi heritage
©UNESCO/Ala Elfellah -(Right to Left): Kishore Rao, Director of UNESCO’s Heritage Division and interim Assistant UNESCO Director-General for Culture, Irina Bokova Director-General of UNESCO , and Mahmood Al-Mulla...
08/172014 -
The World Heritage Convention has entered into force for the...
On 15 May 2014, the Government of the Bahamas officially deposited with the Director-General of UNESCO its instrument of ratification of the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural He...
08/152014 -
UNESCO strengthens action to safeguard cultural heritage und...
Recent events in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Mali have highlighted the multiple threats to cultural heritage during crisis, including deliberate attacks, destruction as collateral damage in fighting, the greed of unscru...
08/122014 -
Chinese tourists to Cambodia's Angkor heritage site up 17 pc...
PHNOM PENH, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- The number of Chinese visitors to Cambodia's Angkor Wat temple, one of the World Heritage Sites, has reached 161,700 in the first six months of this year, a 17 percent rise over the s...
08/012014 -
Feature: Denmark's white cliff rises to fame after being lis...
COPENHAGEN, July 19 (Xinhua) -- Denmark's Stevns Klint cliff, recently listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, is attracting a growing number of visitors from home and abroad with its unique charm and special geolo...
07/192014 -
Emergency Response Action Plan to safeguard Iraqi heritage
UNESCO today held a consultation with Iraqi and international cultural heritage experts and agreed on an Emergency Response Action Plan to safeguard Iraq’s rich and diverse cultural heritage.
07/172014 -
The 2nd International Workshop of Space Technologies in Mana...
The 2nd International Workshop of Space Technologies in Management and Conservation of World Heritage Sites was opened in AIR on 2nd July. The workshop was jointly organized by AIR and the International Centre on S...
07/132014 -
'Biosphere' recognition for Brighton and Lewes Downs from Un...
A part of Sussex has been recognised by the United Nations as a "biosphere reserve", ranking it alongside the Amazon and Mount Olympu
07/112014 -
Participants in the 3rd African Ministers Roundtable Discuss...
On the occasion of the 38th Session of the World Heritage Committee (Doha, Qatar), the Chairperson of the World Heritage Committee, Her Excellency Sheikha Al Mayassa Bint Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, joined the Dire...
07/102014
