The World Heritage Committee, meeting for its 32nd session, finished inscribing new sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List on 8 July with the addition of 19 cultural sites and eight natural sites to the List. Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca (Malaysia). extracted from http://portal.unesco.org/en/ev.php-URL_ID=43067&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html