In a regular meeting of the government-appointed Cultural Heritage Council Tuesday, Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Alexis Tam Chon Weng called for strengthened efforts in civil society to ensure that the city’s listed cultural heritage sites are always properly protected, by citing Monday’s blaze that gutted the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris
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The UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Paris said it “regrets the lack of progress with the completion of the [government’s] Management Plan, which was due for submission by 1 February 2015.”