The United Nations’ cultural agency recommended Thursday that Laos invite a monitoring mission to the historic city of Luang Prabang, a World Heritage Site where a nearby dam project on the Mekong River has raised concerns it could lose the coveted status.
… In a similar move, the Committee recommended that Cambodia invite a new team of experts to monitor the situation at the Angkor UNESCO site, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, where authorities’ efforts to relocate people has drawn allegations of human rights abuses from Amnesty International and others.
In full: https://apnews.com/article/unesco-southeast-asia-7b32ba75cb682b5452a01a0053f5fa1d
