Kuala Lampur, Feb. 10 -- Following the recent news circulating on the recognition of Chinese new villages in Selangor as a Unesco World Heritage site, falling under the purview of the Housing and Local Government Ministry, there has been a surge of negative sentiments expressed on Malaysian social media platforms. This signifies a general lack of awareness among the public about what it means to earn the international recognition.

This initiative under Unesco, a specialised agency under the United Nations was only heard about widely in Malaysia in 2008 when George Town and Melaka successfully achieved the World Heritage Site acknowledgment. Established in 1959, Egypt became Unesco's first rescue project as the Aswan High Dam was planned ...