SINGAPORE, Dec. 16 (Xinhua) -- Singapore's hawker culture has been inscribed on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, according to a Facebook post by Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Wednesday night.
Singapore's President Halimah Yacob also posted the news on Facebook and said that hawker culture has shaped the Singaporean identity in many ways, and contributed to the diversity of Singapore's multicultural society.