Posts Tagged ‘ In The Central Region ’

Three colleges students walk 1800km with environmental message 

July 18, 2011
Three colleges students walk 1800km with environmental message 

Two students (in blue) deliver leaflets with information on ways to protect the environment. Three college students from the northern city Hai Phong are walking 1,800 kilometers to Ho Chi Minh City, distributing leaflets providing information about saving natural resources.   Tran Thang, Nguyen Hong Thai and Tran Son Tung have tried to walk 50 [...]

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Korean company donates to Central flood victims 

December 20, 2010
Korean company donates to Central flood victims 

Yi Jin Seok (2nd R), Managing Director of the Korean National Oil Corporation, hands off the company’s donation to Thanh Nien representatives, who then distributed the funds to Central flood victims. The Korean National Oil Corporation (KNOC) donated VND300 million to people in the Central region suffering from continuous and devastating flooding during the past [...]

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Vietnam mulls end to flood-causing power plants 

November 15, 2010
Vietnam mulls end to flood-causing power plants 

Ba Ha Power Plant in the central province of Phu Yen discharges water The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to put an end to small hydropower projects that have serious environmental impacts, an official said Saturday. There are 86 small hydropower plants with a capacity of less than 30 megawatts and many of them [...]

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Tet tours made easy

January 17, 2010
Tet tours made easy

Tet travel tours within the country have become a lot more convenient over that last few years. Tourism companies now offer several kinds of tours for those wanting to see different parts of the country during the major national holiday.Vietravel has a 5-day, 4-night tour to many cities and provinces in the north, departing from [...]

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Da Nang investigates carcinogenic dried melon seeds

December 11, 2009
Da Nang investigates carcinogenic dried melon seeds

 Da Nang authorities have uncovered dried melon seeds containing rhodamine B, which is banned for food use. Tan Phat’s dried melon seeds seized at the Con market, Da Nang City on December 10. According to Da Nang Test Centre results, the dried melon seeds sold at the Han Market which are produced by Binh Thuan’s Tan [...]

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Prime Minister pledges fair corruption investigations

November 22, 2009
Prime Minister pledges fair corruption investigations

A woman in Quang Nam Province salvages property from her house that was collapsed by floods caused by typhoon Ketsana in September No one guilty of corruption will escape punishment and no innocent people will be treated unjustly, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said Thursday in reference to anticorruption efforts in Vietnam. Answering questions from [...]

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Questions asked over hydro-power reservoir water discharge in typhoon

November 11, 2009
Questions asked over hydro-power reservoir water discharge in typhoon

Questions are mounting following water discharged from the reservoir of Ba Ha hydro-power plant after typhoon Mirinae. The serious floods that followed covered a vast area, causing serious damages to Phu Yen province. The Ba Ha hydropower plant (photo: VNExpress). On November 2, when storm No. 11 or Mirinae hit the central province of Phu Yen, [...]

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Legislators call for tighter hydro plant controls to curb floods

November 9, 2009
Legislators call for tighter hydro plant controls to curb floods

National Assembly members demanded the government tighten control over hydro power plant projects on Friday after discharge by a plant in the central region worsened flooding during typhoon Mirinae. Nguyen Dinh Xuan, a member of the National Assembly’s Science, Technology and Environment Committee, said inspections needed to be carried out to see if reservoirs at [...]

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Dammed and damned

November 3, 2009
Dammed and damned

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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A treat for everyone

October 15, 2009
A treat for everyone

The overflowing pancake known as banh xeo is as Vietnamese as it gets yet even foreigners rave about it after the first mouthful. Banh xeo is a delicious concoction that resembles an omelet at first glance but is actually a rice-flour pancake colored yellow by turmeric and filled with pork slivers, shrimp, egg, mung beans [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...