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Newly - Elected President Alvaro Colom Pledges Full Support for
Mirador Conservation and Sustainable Development
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Guatemala Proposes a
Binational Park.
This past Monday President Alvaro Colom emphasized the development projects of the new Guatemalan government with Mexico to take advantage of the proximity of the two nations.
In his first speech after his inauguration as President of Guatemala for a four-year period 2008 - 2012, the Social Democrat, Colom, explained the interest of his government in realizing a project in the archaeological, tourism, and conservation fields near the border area with Mexico.
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CYRENE FEATURED IN
NEW YORK TIMES
A Green Resort Is Planned
to Preserve Ruins and
Coastal Waters
In this remote eastern region of Libya, where the bleak hills resemble a lunar landscape, the Green Mountain Sustainable Development Area is the latest in a spate of recently announced projects that form a sort of environmental coming-out party for this former pariah country.
Fleets of white Mercedes vans ferried guests along newly paved roads for a lamb dinner among the ruins and a signing ceremony presided over by Saif al-Islam el-Qaddafi, eldest son of the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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PINGYAO FEATURED IN
ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST 
Living History - The Walled City of Pingyao Offers a Rare Glimpse into China's Past
It is daybreak in Pingyao. Along narrow dirt lanes and behind steep courtyard walls, one of the last vestiges of Old China awakens. A watermelon vendor bikes down Ming Dynasty streets, his rotund wares balanced precariously on his handlebars. In the gray shadows of the ancient crenellated city wall, rebuilt in 1370 and one of the few intact city walls left in China, an intrepid band of ladies is engaged in Chinese hip-hop aerobics, their frenetic whirl barely noticed by fellow early risers doing tai chi...
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BANTEAY CHHMAR, CAMBODIA
KINGDOM OF CAMBODIA
The citadel of Banteay Chhmar was commissioned by the 12th Century Khmer King Jayavarman VII (AD 1181-1219) in honour of four army generals, and his son, the Crown Prince Indravarman. These five men were killed defending the Khmer Empire against the Champa Kingdom, located in what is now Vietnam.
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KARS, TURKEY
AN HISTORIC OTTOMAN DISTRICT
Global Heritage Fund is working with the Kars Municipality, The Turkish Government, international development institutions and Turkish organizations and non-profits to integrate concepts of historic preservation and urban revitalization with community development and sustainable tourism.
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