(8 May 2024) Asia-Pacific Member States newly inscribed 20 items during the 2024 cycle of the Memory of the World Regional Register at the 10th General Meeting of the Memory of the World Committee for Asia and the Pacific (MOWCAP), which was convened from 7 to 8 May, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
Genealogical records were especially notable among 2024 inscriptions, with Mongolia’s Family Chart of Hereditary Lords of the Khalkha Mongols, the House of Genghis Khan; as well as the communities of Huizhou in China, and Kedah State in Malaysia, as testaments to the importance of collating regional family histories.
The 20 successfully inscribed items to the MOWCAP Regional Register for Asia-Pacific are:
- Australia and Tuvalu – Funafuti: The Edgeworth David 1897 Expedition Documents
- Bangladesh – “Sultana’s Dream” by Rokeya S. Hossain
- China – Archives Relating to the Chengdu Traditional Teahouses
- China – Huizhou Genealogy Archives
- China – Printing Blocks Housed at the Derge Printing House
- India – The Illustrated Manuscripts of Rāmacaritamānasa of Tulasīdāsa
- India – The Manuscript of the Sahṛdayāloka-Locana: Seminal Text of Indian Poetics
- India – The 15th Century Manuscript of the Pañcatantra Fables
- Indonesia – Indarung I, The First Cement Plant in Southeast Asia (1910-1972)
- Indonesia – Indonesian Sugar Research Institute’s Archives 1887-1986: The Role of ISRI’s Research Activities to the World Sugar Industry
- Indonesia – The Tambo Tuanku Imam Bonjol Manuscript
- Malaysia – Al-Tarikh Salasilah Negeri Kedah: Genealogical History of Kedah State
- Malaysia – The Royal Correspondence of Baginda Omar (Surat Persendirian Baginda Omar)
- Mongolia – Family Chart of Hereditary Lords of the Khalkha Mongols, the House of Genghis Khan
- Mongolia – Mongolia’s First Postage Stamps ‘Eldev Ochir’
- Philippines – Doctrina Christiana en Lengua Española y Tagala (Christian Doctrine in Spanish and Tagalog), Manila, 1593
- Philippines – Hinilawod Epic Chant Recordings
- Uzbekistan – Images of Khorezm Oasis by Khudaibergan Devanov (1879-1937)
- Uzbekistan – “Turkestan Album” 1871-1872
- Viet Nam – Bas-reliefs on the Nine Bronze Urns in Huế Imperial Palace
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