Posts Tagged ‘ Lam dong ’

US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

January 18, 2012
US surgeon pulls off incredible feat 

  New lease on life – a Vietnamese man with a 198-lb tumor, a woman with tumors all over the body and another with several covering half her face look forward to bright futures Doctor McKay McKinnon (L) visited Nguyen Duy Hai, 32, on January 8, three days after his 82-kilogram tumor was successfully removed [...]

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Doctors remove facial tumors of Vietnamese woman 

January 6, 2012
Doctors remove facial tumors of Vietnamese woman 

Kieu Thi My Dung (L) had facial tumors removed on Friday. An American surgeon and Vietnamese doctors performed surgery to remove abnormal facial tumors from a 22-year-old girl at Ho Chi Minh City’s Cho Ray Hospital on Friday, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper reported. The operation on Kieu Thi My Dung started at 10 a.m. and ended [...]

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Three allegedly die from alcohol poisoning in central Vietnam 

October 16, 2011

  Three of four people who were hospitalized early this week with symptoms of alcohol poisoning have died in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, a local hospital said Friday. According to Lam Dong General Hospital, on Wednesday, Ha Ngu, 44, together with Ha Gia, also 44, and 20-year-old Ha Nghiem, gathered at Ha [...]

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Lam Dong plans three railways, six monorails 

September 12, 2011
Lam Dong plans three railways, six monorails 

  The Central Highlands province of Lam Dong has unveiled a plan to build three railway routes to other provinces and six monorail routes inside its capital city Dalat. Under the plan, the province will restore the Thap Cham-Dalat Railway, a French-built 84-kilometer rack railway connecting the resort city of Dalat to the main North-South [...]

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I don’t need no education 

August 28, 2011
I don’t need no education 

11-year-old Pham Thanh Ngoc gets her math homework checked by a local math teacher. The girl recently applied for a public high school Pham Thanh Ngoc did not drop out of school. She just refused to go to school, from kindergarten onward. However, Ngoc’s reluctance to attend school was not of the usual variety. It [...]

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12-year-old boy saves four children from drowning 

August 8, 2011
12-year-old boy saves four children from drowning 

Pham Quang Vinh at his home in Lam Dong Province A 12 year old boy in the Central Highlands has been honored with the “little warrior” title for saving four children aged between 4 and 11 from drowning last month, local newspapers reported Friday.   Pham Quang Vinh, a seventh grader from Lam Dong Province, [...]

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Cat Tien environmental assessment full of holes: experts 

July 24, 2011
Cat Tien environmental assessment full of holes: experts 

  With hydropower running amok in this country, local critics of neighboring dam projects are throwing stones in a glass house A view of the Cat Tien National Park, where two planned hydropower projects, if built, would encroach on around 140 hectares of forest. Conservationists fear that the two planned dams would totally transform the [...]

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Power plant fees pay communities to protect national park 

July 15, 2011
Power plant fees pay communities to protect national park 

Scientists and local residents observe an old five-leaved pine in Lam Dong Province's Bidoup – Ba Mountain National Park. Lam Dong Province is using environmental protection fees collected from investors of Central Highlands hydropower plants to pay an ethnic minority group to protect a major national park from poachers, criminal loggers and illegal development.   Managers of Bidoup – Ba [...]

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Da Lat to become centrally governed city 

June 30, 2011
Da Lat to become centrally governed city 

An overview of Da Lat City. The Ministry of Construction Friday approved a proposal to turn the hill resort town of Da Lat in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong into a centrally governed city. The proposal was submitted by the Lam Dong Province People’s Committee. The ministry said Da Lat deserves the status [...]

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Two more dams planned near national park 

June 29, 2011
Two more dams planned near national park 

UNESCO listed Cat Tien National Park as a world biosphere reserve. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development is seeking the government’s approval to build two hydropower plants near Cat Tien National Park in the southern province of Dong Nai. Under the proposal, the Dong Nai 6 and Dong Nai 6A plants will encroach on [...]

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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...