Phnom Penh (FN), Aug. 31 - The Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts is optimistic for the successful inscription of Cambodian Male Masked Dance as World's Intangible Cultural Heritage after submitting required documents to UNESCO for almost a year without any objections from other countries, Thai Norak Satya, spokesman of the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts told Fresh News on Friday.

UNESCO World Heritage Committee has already listed four Cambodia’s Intangible Cultural Heritages, namely Chapei Dang Veng (2016); Tugging rituals and games (2015); Royal ballet of Cambodia and Sbek Thom, Khmer shadow theatre (2008).

Intangible Cultural Heritage, according to UNESCO, means the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments, objects, artifacts and cultural spaces associated therewith – that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage.
=FRESH NEWS