November 13, 2011
Patrick Desir of Poussieres de Vie with Ba Na friends at a festival in Kon Tum The Ba Na people toiled all day in the fields yet had little to show for their efforts and often went hungry. The situation troubled and intrigued Patrick Desir, whose charity organization helps six orphanages in Gia Lai [...]
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June 27, 2011
Nha rong Kon Klor on inauguration day on June 19 Last week, small Ba Na communities throughout Kon Tum Province were abuzz with excitement. After nearly a year’s wait, they had gathered to celebrate the reconstruction of the largest communal structure in the area that had been destroyed in a senseless act of arson. [...]
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November 3, 2009
The groundbreaking ceremony for the Thuong Kon Tum Hydropower Plant project in Kon Tum Province Vast areas of forests are being sacrificed in the central region and the Central Highlands to build hundreds of hydropower plants, and experts are warning of serious environmental and social consequences. A total of 60 large-scale hydropower plants of between [...]
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October 12, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Teachers and students are back in school, even though formidable floods have taken away their homes, clothing and books. Van Thi Kim Lien appeared at Tran Hung Dao Secondary School in Kon Tum City on the morning of October 7, the first day the school reopened after the flood. She greeted everyone and [...]
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October 10, 2009
Typhoon Ketsana has revealed shoddy construction in Da Nang and flushed huge quanties of illegally harvested timber downriver in Quang Nam and Kon Tum provinces, VietNamNet and Tuoi Tre report. A piece of broken embankment on Nguyen Tat Thanh Road, Da Nang City. Weak walls no match for storm Typhoon Ketsana has seriously damaged Nguyen Tat Thanh [...]
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October 6, 2009
Residents of Dai Cuong commune in Quang Nam Province salvage logs from Vu Gia River Tree trunks and sawn logs washed down in the floods in central Vietnam caused by Typhoon Ketsana have jammed rivers and buried floodplains in Quang Nam and Kon Tum provinces. On Sunday afternoon, hundreds of people came from near and [...]
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September 6, 2009
Gong correctors use skills handed down through generations but experts fear their talents will be lost. Gong players in Tay Nguyen need people able to perfect gong tunes.LookAtVietnam – Gong correctors use skills handed down through generations but experts fear their talents will be lost and that the ancient instruments will soon only exist in [...]
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July 15, 2009
Locals in Kon Tum Province check ginseng plants they are growing on the Ngoc Linh Mountain. Kon Tum Province in the Central Highlands plans to grow more than 11 million ginseng plants for propagation purposes by 2014. Four hectares will be devoted to displaying the plant and 1,000 local families will be trained in ginseng [...]
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July 11, 2009
Valuable gong sets found in Kon Tum; National Library opens Spanish room; 150,000 USD to restore Nguyen Tri Phuong Tomb in Hue; Seven more people in Kon Tum recognised as folk artisans; ‘Vietnamese cultural days’ held in Bashkortostan Valuable gong sets found in Kon TumTwelve valuable sets of gongs have recently been found in Dac [...]
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June 7, 2009
UNICEF funds campaign to support children’s rights; Environmental Police Department launches website; Kon Tum orphans to receive Australian support; UK funds HIV/AIDS programme in Vietnam; Dak Lak reburies 81 martyrs killed in Cambodia; Da Nang goes green with environmentally friendly buses UNICEF funds campaign to support children’s rights The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has donated [...]
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