PHNOM PENH: Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced that the Royal Government of Cambodia will add more ancestral assets to the World Heritage List. Cambodia currently has nine heritage sites and artefacts included on the list.

Speaking at the Closing Ceremony of the 3rd National Games and 1st National Paralympic Games at the Moradok Techo National Stadium, Prime Minister Hun Sen mentioned three important points of national pride: all the achievements of ancestors that were left behind for the next generations to enjoy, the Cambodian athletes who worked hard to raise cultural heritage following liberation in 1979, and the Ministry of Culture and other relevant institutions that have worked hard to inscribe cultural heritage sites and artefacts on UNESCO's World Heritage List.

"Hopefully, we will continue to include the heritage of our ancestors," he said.

LBokator was officially inscribed onto the UNESCO Intangible Heritage of Humanity list on Tuesday night, 29 November 2022, making it the ninth Cambodian cultural treasure that is internationally protected.

Cambodia already had eight entries inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage list, including the Angkor Archeological Site, the Royal Ballet, Sbek Thom or ‘Big Skin’ shadow theater, the Temple of Preah Vihear, the Chapei Dang Veng, traditional Cambodian tug-of-war, the Sambor Prei Kuk temple, and the Khmer masked theater of Svay Andet pagoda.