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Singapore’s Botanic Gardens named World Heritage Site

JULY 6 (Reuters) — Singapore’s Botanic Gardens was named as a cultural site on the World Heritage List on Saturday (July 4), with residents and tourists in the city state welcoming the news. The UNESCO World Heritage Committee meeting in Bonn, Germany, approved the inscription of six new cultural sites in China, Iran, Mongolia and Singapore. Singapore’s Botanic Gardens were the first tropical botanic gardens on the heritage site list and the first in Asia, […]