GEORGE TOWN (Bernama): The Penang government has sent a letter to the National Heritage Department to nominate its hawker culture to the Unesco Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
State Tourism Development, Arts, Culture and Heritage Committee chairman Yeoh Soon Hin said the letter was sent to the National Heritage Department and the Deputy Tourism Minister's office in hopes that the authorities could recommend Penang and Singapore to be jointly nominated to introduce hawker culture.
He added that Unesco had stated that nominations could only be submitted by the member country and that was the reason the nomination was for hawker culture in Singapore and Malaysia, instead of Penang.
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