Posts Tagged ‘ Lam Dong Province ’

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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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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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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Schoolgirls fight, again 

March 10, 2011
Schoolgirls fight, again 

  Online footage of yet another brutal schoolgirl beating has resulted in just two suspensions and myriad questions         Images extracted from online video footage depicting a schoolgirl in Lam Dong Province brutally attacked by her schoolmates, on January 11. Several such clips have gone online during the past year – most [...]

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Safeguarding the forests from a Vietnam bee explosion

December 25, 2009
Safeguarding the forests from a Vietnam bee explosion

LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s woodlands face a new foe. It’s not illegal deforestation, the expansion of hydro-power projects, or the establishment of coffee or rubber farms – it’s bee keeping. Chuong and a bee house made of waste materials. But one man is trying to save the woods and boost beekeepers and he has an incredible new, [...]

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Tan Rai bauxite mine set to be licensed

December 25, 2009
Tan Rai bauxite mine set to be licensed

Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai has instructed the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to quickly approve the environmental reports for Tan Rai and Nhan Co projects. The Tan Rai bauxite project in Lam Dong province.LookAtVietnam – Deputy prime minister Hoang Trung Hai has instructed the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment to quickly approve the [...]

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Endangered Lam Dong red pines provide cancer treatment

November 11, 2009
Endangered Lam Dong red pines provide cancer treatment

The Dalat Centre for Planting and Processing Herbal Trees has successfully extracted an active element called 10-DAB from red pine trees in Lam Dong to process taxol for cancer treatment. Red pine trees planted in Cam Ly, Lam Dong province. The centre’s director, Vuong Tri Hung, revealed that red pine trees had been moved from Lam [...]

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Awful conditions don’t stop committed teachers in remote areas

September 12, 2009
Awful conditions don’t stop committed teachers in remote areas

LookAtVietnam – Thousands of dedicated teachers brave poverty, dangerous roads and shoddy facilities to bring education to the country’s most remote areas.  Two teachers from Pang Tieng School in Lam Dong Province on the way to the school.LookAtVietnam – Thousands of dedicated teachers brave poverty, dangerous roads and shoddy facilities to bring education to the [...]

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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...