PURSAT, Cambodia – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet announced plans on March 31 to nominate seven tangible and three intangible cultural properties for inscription on the Unesco’s prestigious World Heritage List.
The three properties planned for intangible cultural heritage of humanity list are Cambodian Songkran, traditional woven scarf Krama and Khmer wedding tradition, he added. He said that usually, it takes almost two years to have a property to be inscribed on the Unesco world heritage list and a country can add only one property to the list a year.
Songkran is a Sangskrit-derived term for the traditional New Year of the Buddhist calendar, which is celebrated in several Buddhist countries in Asia, including Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and Myanmar.
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