Archive for January 29th, 2011
PM: M’sia keen to list Sabah’s Maliau Basin as a world heritage site
Posted by Star: MUGUNTAN VANAR on January 29th, 2011
Star: Malaysia is very keen to list Sabah's Lost World, the Maliau Basin as a world heritage site.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, in endorsing the state government's proposal, said that a World Heritage listing by UNESCO would bring immediate world attention and interest in the 58,400-hectare untouched tropical rainforest, just slightly smaller then Singapore.
Najib (second right) crossing the skybridge during his visit at the Maliau Basin Conservation Area in Tawau
He said the heritage...