October 29, 2011
 A corner of Lake Nui Mot Nui Mot was a small lake nestling in a valley of the An Truong Mountains until the late 1970s, when a dam was built downstream to create a 1,200-hectare irrigation reservoir that snakes its way back through the high country. Still called Nui Mot, the largest and prettiest [...]
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July 16, 2011
Vietnamese and foreign scientists continue to disagree about the deity’s species and sex A giant soft-shell turtle considered a sacred symbol of Vietnamese independence being guided into a cage for a health check by handlers at Hoan Kiem Lake, in the heart of Hanoi, on April 3. The giant animal was released back to [...]
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July 1, 2011
Environmentalists are hopeful the first international study of dioxin contamination around Bien Hoa Airbase will pave the way for a US-funded cleanup International and local researchers conduct sediment sampling around the Bien Hoa Airbase. The first-ever international study has confirmed continued dioxin contamination at the airbase and called for an immediate stop to fish [...]
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June 11, 2011
Handicrafts carved from thuy tung are publicly advertised online and sold throughout the country. Nguyen Van S is near tears as he recalls the day when hundreds of thuy tung (Glyptostrobus Pensilis or water pine) disappeared from his property. “I owned many,” he said. Van S said a massive stand of the trees had remained [...]
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April 9, 2011
Experts pooh-pooh claims of another animal spotted in Hoan Kiem Lake Members of a rescue team stand around a giant freshwater turtle after successfully capturing it in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake last Sunday (April 3). The state established a team of animal experts, veterinarians and conservation workers to capture the rare turtle and administer [...]
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April 7, 2011
Young motorcyclists gathered on a corner opposite Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake at 1 a.m. on Sunday (March 20). The streets of downtown Hanoi had emptied of all but a few late night revelers. By midnight, on a recent Saturday, a light rain had dried up and the chilly dampness of winter gave way to a [...]
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April 6, 2011
A giant turtle which is considered a sacred symbol of Vietnam surfaces at Hoan Kiem Lake in the heart of Hanoi on March 7, 2011. Dear Editor: The world now knows the plight of Vietnam’s sacred turtle struggling to survive in polluted Hoan Kiem Lake. The turtle’s suffering need not to be the "price of [...]
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April 4, 2011
Many people wait along the Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi on Sunday morning Thousands of onlookers cheered in central Hanoi on Sunday when rescuers captured for treatment an endangered and ailing giant turtle revered as a symbol of Vietnam’s centuries-old independence struggle. On the first attempt to snare it in polluted Hoan Kiem Lake one [...]
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March 12, 2011
Successful evasion of capture by Hoan Kiem Lake turtle raises hopes it can be restored to health, but the health of the lake itself is another matter Hundreds of residents and tourists watched as people using boatsand nets began efforts to capture and treat the legendary turtle in Hoan Kiem Lake on March 8 [...]
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February 20, 2011
Experts still divided on ways to treat turtle too old and special for conservation efforts The badly injured giant soft-shell turtle living in Hanoi’s Hoan Kiem Lake, pictured here on February 8, is said to be one of four remaining Rafetus swinhoei specimens in the world. The photograph has initiated a new round of [...]
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