Re: 7 new UNESCO world heritage sites: 1 in China (RAK, dont read!)
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Re: 7 new UNESCO world heritage sites: 1 in China (RAK, dont read!)         

Group: soc.culture.hongkong · Group Profile
Author: abianchen
Date: Jul 9, 2008 13:01

Very soon tacky RAK will propose Luxor Hotel Las Vagas as world
heritage site. Haha!

http://www.luxor.com/

On Jul 9, 1:53 am, RichAsianKid hotmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 7, 7:37 pm, "abianc...@my-deja.com" my-deja.com>
> wrote:
>
>> UNESCO just announced 7 new UNESCO world heritage sites and 1 is in
>> Fujian, China.
>
>
>
>> RAK, dont read, you are only interested in new things.
>
> Since this post is posted to soc.culture.hongkong (and I helpfully X-
> posted to hk.politics too), well, how's the above qualitatively
> different from the modern cheap public housing cages offered in
> *modern* Hong Kong? Here's a comparable interior look:
>
>      http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/1139110628_93a37dd8ca.jpg?v=0
>
> The building philosophy your link quoted and other similarites are
> uncanny.
>
> Shouldn't half of Hong Kong be some heritage site too now? And if not
> now as some are averse to modernity, then couple centuries from now?
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