Macau landmarks added to Unesco World Heritage list in 2005 � from TINS archive

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
This article was first published on July 16, 2005. By Freda Wan Her­it­age list­ing hailed as key to widen­ing Macau’s
appeal Macau’s aim to pos­i­tion itself as something more than a gambling hub received a boost on Tuesday night (July 15, 2005) when
many of its land­marks were added to Unesco’s World Herit­age list. The 29 sites, which played a key role in the earli­est encoun­ters
between east and west, now rank along­side such famed sites as China’s Great Wall and the Angkor temples in...