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UN eyes Wat Phra Mahathat's credentials
Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 02/06/2025
» The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment will welcome experts from the International Council on Monuments and Sites (Icomos), arriving this week to assess Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in Nakhon Si Thammarat province for potential designation as a World Heritage Site.
Southern Thai temple proposed for Unesco recognition
News, Online Reporters, Published on 28/01/2025
» The cabinet has approved an application to propose Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in Nakhon Si Thammarat as a Unesco world heritage site, 12 years after it was first placed on a tentative list.
Bandwagon to get ancient temple Unesco status grows
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 18/01/2025
» Natural Resources and Environment Minister Chalermchai Sri-on is preparing to propose to the cabinet that Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in Nakhon Si Thammarat be given the backing it needs to secure Unesco World Heritage status.
Five cultural sites across Thailand placed on Unesco ‘tentative list’
Published on 28/07/2024
» A total of five cultural places across Thailand have been added to a tentative Unesco list of potential new world heritage sites, a government spokesman said Sunday.
Call for end of border red tape
Business, Narumon Kasemsuk, Published on 26/10/2023
» Tourism operators in Songkhla have called for the suspension of the TM6 immigration forms at another border checkpoint and the removal of extra-time service fees as the process is still hindering the flow of Malaysian tourists.
Songkhla chasing Unesco listing for old town
Assawin Pakkawan, Published on 21/09/2023
» SONGKHLA: The provincial administrative organisation (PAO) and civil society of this southern region are pressing ahead with a plan to include Songkhla's old town in the tentative list of Unesco World Heritage Sites.
Temple’s bid to save old cannons fails
News, Published on 13/07/2023
» NAKHON SI THAMMARAT: Contractors are proceeding with dismantling century-old cannons at Wat Phra Mahathat Woramahawihan in this southern province despite the temple’s order to halt the process until the Fine Arts Department (FAD) has conducted an inspection.
Central Pattana joins hands with TAT to host ‘THAILAND’s SONGKRAN FESTIVAL 2022’
Published on 07/04/2022
» Traditional Thai Songkran culture takes a new turn at Central shopping centres nationwide from 7 to 17 April 2022
Over 300 frontline medics in Samut Sakhon infected
News, Published on 02/08/2021
» Over 300 medical workers across three districts in Samut Sakhon have contracted Covid-19, according to the province's governor, Veerasak Vichitsangsri.
Famous Phitsanulok temple closed for 1 month
Chinnawat Singha, Published on 01/08/2021
» PHITSANULOK: Wat Phra Si Rattana Mahathat Woramahawihan, a renowned Buddhist temple in this central northern province, has been closed from Aug 1-31 by the provincial communicable disease committee to contain the Covid-19 pandemic.