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Thailand celebrates its sixth Unesco listing

A national collection of palm-leaf manuscripts that Thailand nominated for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (Unesco) global list has won recognition as an entry among 64 newly included international inscriptions, the government said on Saturday.

Thailand nominated the National Collection of Palm-Leaf Manuscripts of the Phra That Phanom Chronicle, which narrates the tale of the Buddha's breastbones that were brought from India for enshrinement at Phrathat Phanom -- widely recognised as a sacred Buddhist centre in the Mekong region.

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