October 31, 2011
If the current state of zero accountability for wildlife protection continues, other species will follow the rhino to extinction Participants watch projected images including of smuggled rhino horns (R) seized during a press conference on the launch of a rhino population survey report in Vietnam in Hanoi on October 25. A critically endangered species [...]
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October 3, 2011
Traveling by sidecar from Mui Ne to Da Lat is a great way to travel the region We had only been a day in Phan Thiet and, frankly, I’d have rather stayed another two. The links at Ocean Dunes Golf Club, part of the seaside Novotel Phan Thiet Resort, were superb (good enough to [...]
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June 19, 2011
Green eggplants give a bitter twist to the cuisine of the Central Highlands Bitter eggplant to cook with fish in Pleiku Town The Central Highlands has become one of the world’s most famous coffee producers. Vietnam is now the world’s second-largest exporter of the bitter beverage and it owes much of that honor to [...]
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May 27, 2011
A damaged section of Road 723 in Lam Dong Province. Local authorities have blamed the damaged roads on heavy trucks travelling to and from the controversial Tan Rai bauxite mining plant. Several weeks from now, a controversial bauxite mining plant will process its first alumina batch in the Central Highlands. The project has attracted strong [...]
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May 13, 2011
An elephant found dead in a forest of the Central Highlands resort town of Da Lat last month. Police have put three people under investigation for its death. Three people have been put under investigation in the death of an elephant found brutally killed in the Central Highlands of Lam Dong last month, local prosecutors [...]
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April 1, 2011
Adult elephants line up before starting their race, held for the first time in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak this month An old elephant waits, incomplete, in the shade of a big tamarind tree outside Yok Don National Park. The giant beast’s two tusks have been cut off by its owner to dissuade [...]
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March 15, 2011
The reservoir at Ham Thuan Power Plant in the Central Highlands is drying up Many hydropower plants have had to reduce operations due to dangerously low water levels, worsening the electricity shortage problem in the country. Power plant operators said reservoirs are drying up around the country, especially in the Central Highlands and southern provinces. [...]
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March 15, 2011
Khai Doan Pagoda was given a reddish-brown color similar to the basalt soil found in the Central Highlands In the heart of Buon Ma Thuot Town stands the Khai Doan Pagoda that boasts a unique feature: a design that is a combination of the Central Highlands long house and palaces of the Hue Royal Court. [...]
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January 30, 2011
A Francois' Langur and its babies found in the northern highlands province of Thai Nguyen. Vietnamese scientists are going to announce the discovery of a rare langur species in the northernl highlands province of Thai Nguyen, a local official told Thanh Nien. According to Ngo Xuan Hai, chief of the provincial Forest Rangers Agency, a [...]
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December 25, 2010
Artist Duc Dau performs on Quang Trung war-drums at his house which is a living museum of all kinds of Vietnamese traditional musical instruments. Mention family bands and the Jacksons come to mind first, but not to those who know a “crazy” guy called Duc Dau, born Tran Trong Dau. Dau’s “Phu Dong Family Band” [...]
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