Archive for January 29th, 2011

PM: M’sia keen to list Sabah’s Maliau Basin as a world heritage site

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...