An exhibition themed “The cultural space of the gong in the community of Vietnamese nations” is being held at the Dak Lak Province’s Cultural Museum of Vietnamese Nations to welcome the 2007 Central Highland Gong Culture Festival. More than 600 objects, documents and photos presenting a general view of the cultural space of the gong in the community of Vietnamese nations are on the display lasting to November 30. The show includes four parts: an introduction of culture and musical instruments of the Bronze Age, dating back 3,000 years, gong culture of the northern ethnic minorities, gong performances by 17 ethnic groups in Truong Son Mountain Range and Central Highland region, and gong culture of Khmer and ethnic Chinese people in the southern region. The event is one of the cultural activities of the 2007 Gong Festival to take place over November 21-24 in the Central Highlands City of Buon Ma Thuot in Dak Lak. Twenty-five local and foreign art troupes from Laos, … [Read more...] about 2007 Central Highland Gong Culture Festival starts
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Central Highlands gets ready for Gong Festival 2007
The Central Highlands province of Dak Lak is doing its best to advertise the upcoming Gong Festival 2007, a cultural event of the Central Highlands and Vietnam, which will commence on November 21. The province has coordinated with the media, film studios, radio and TV broadcasting stations to provide updated information related to the Central Highlands Gong Festival 2007, held for the first time in Vietnam. The Dak Lak Department of Culture and Information has delivered 10,000 pamphlets detailing the festival at all villages in the province and hung up thousands of banners, boards advertising the event on major streets of Buon Ma Thuot city, Don village, etc. Over 3,500 handbooks about the gong festivals are being sent to grassroots administrations to help local people be aware of the importance of this cultural event in their province. The national Vietnam Television provides updated news about the festival on its channel for ethnic minority groups in the Central … [Read more...] about Central Highlands gets ready for Gong Festival 2007
One dead in brawl over land dispute in Vietnam’s Central Highlands Info Alert Alert Chia sẻ bài viết qua e-mail
One was killed and six others injured after two groups of locals in Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Dak Lak engaged in an armed conflict over land disputes on Saturday.Bui Duc Hanh, chairman of Ea Bung Commune in Dak Lak’s Ea Sup District, confirmed to Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper on Saturday evening that the brawl had broken out at around 2:00 pm the same day in Ea Bung.According to Hanh, the area of disputed land belongs to a local military division, but has been wrongly occupied and turned into farming land by a group of locals in the commune for ten years.The same land was claimed by another group of people from neighboring communes, which had resulted in frequent conflicts between the groups, Hanh explained.On Saturday, upon learning that the group of outsiders had came to the piece of land for cultivation, locals in Ea Bung gathered to reclaim the land, arming themselves with machetes and knives.The two groups engaged in a violent fight that lasted for roughly … [Read more...] about One dead in brawl over land dispute in Vietnam’s Central Highlands Info Alert Alert Chia sẻ bài viết qua e-mail
Central Highlands posts highest ever export revenue Most Recent News
NDO - Provinces in the Central Highlands region reported a total export revenue of over US$2.66 billion in 2017, equivalent to 102% of the year's plan and up 22.71% compared to 2016. According to the Central Highlands Steering Committee, this is the highest ever export revenue of the region which is attributed by more diverse types of export goods. Key export products of the Central Highlands region include coffee, pepper, rubber, alumina, honey, cassava, cashew nuts, vegetables and flowers. Dak Lak province posted the highest export revenue at over US$575 million in 2017, equivalent to 100.9% of the year's plan and up 4.55% over 2016. The province has exported major products including raw coffee, instant coffee, pepper, rubber, cassava and honey. Of which, raw coffee has been exported to 75 countries and territories across the world, namely Germany, Japan, US, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain and Mexico, among others. Besides the exports of raw coffee, the Central Highlands provinces have … [Read more...] about Central Highlands posts highest ever export revenue Most Recent News
Central Highlands posts highest ever export revenue
NDO - Provinces in the Central Highlands region reported a total export revenue of over US$2.66 billion in 2017, equivalent to 102% of the year's plan and up 22.71% compared to 2016.According to the Central Highlands Steering Committee, this is the highest ever export revenue of the region which is attributed by more diverse types of export goods.Key export products of the Central Highlands region include coffee, pepper, rubber, alumina, honey, cassava, cashew nuts, vegetables and flowers.Dak Lak province posted the highest export revenue at over US$575 million in 2017, equivalent to 100.9% of the year's plan and up 4.55% over 2016.The province has exported major products including raw coffee, instant coffee, pepper, rubber, cassava and honey. Of which, raw coffee has been exported to 75 countries and territories across the world, namely Germany, Japan, US, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain and Mexico, among others.Besides the exports of raw coffee, the Central Highlands provinces have also … [Read more...] about Central Highlands posts highest ever export revenue
Central Highlands achieves record export turnover
The Central Highlands provinces achieved export turnover of more than US$2.66 billion in 2017, reaching nearly 102 per cent of the year’s plan and increasing 22.71 per cent compared with 2016.The Central Highlands provinces also achieved the highest export turnover ever this year.According to the Central Highlands Steering Committee’s Standing Board, at present, export commodities in the Central Highlands provinces are increasingly diversified, contributing to the increase in export turnover.The main export products of the Central Highlands provinces include coffee, pepper, rubber and alumin, as well as honey, tapioca starch, cashew nuts, vegetables and flowers.Of these provinces, Dak Lak Province had the highest export turnover with over $575 million, achieving 100.9 per cent of the year’s plan and a year-on-year increase of 4.55 per cent.Export products of Dak Lak are coffee beans, instant coffee, pepper and rubber, as well as tapioca starch and honey.Currently, Dak … [Read more...] about Central Highlands achieves record export turnover
Central Highlands provinces post record export turnover in 2017
The main export products of the provinces were coffee, pepper, rubber, aluminium, honey, cassava starch, cashew nuts, vegetables and flowers. Dak Lak was the leading export locality in the region, raking in US$575 million in the reviewed period, up 4.55% against the previous year. Its coffee beans have been shipped to 75 countries and territories, with revenue from 10 main markets including Germany, Japan, the US, Italy, Switzerland, the Republic of Korea, India, Spain, Mexico and Sweden reaching US$10 million each. Central Highlands provinces have encouraged domestic and foreign businesses to build coffee processing facilities, raising the added value of coffee products. The provinces also have stepped up trade promotion activities, sought new importers while expanding new selling methods to major partners worldwide. Central Highlands provinces are Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai, Kon Tum and Lam Dong. … [Read more...] about Central Highlands provinces post record export turnover in 2017
15 killed in floods in central and Central Highlands regions
15 people have been killed, 20 others injured and six are still missing from heavy rains and flooding in the central and Central Highlands regions. A man was sailing outside his flooded house in Phu Yen Province on November 4. The figures were updated on November 7 by the Department of Disaster Prevention in the central and Central Highlands regions. Heavy rains started on October 31 and continued throughout the week, destroying 225 houses and submerged 42,812 others. Over 13,000 hectares of rice and vegetable have been flooded, while more than 6,300 heads of cattle and 44,200 poultry were killed and swept away. Initial losses have amounted to over VND590 billion (USD26.5 million), the department reported. Phu Yen province suffered the heaviest loss, with seven killed and one missing. Quang Binh had three deaths while Quang Tri and Binh Dinh each lost two residents. The last victim was from Dak Lak province, said the report. The Phu Yen provincial People’s … [Read more...] about 15 killed in floods in central and Central Highlands regions
Mass fish deaths on Central Highlands lake
Authorities in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum are investigating into the cause of mass fish deaths at a local hydropower reservoir.The mass fish deaths were found in Plei Krong Hydropower Reservoir in Dak Ha District’s Dak Mar Commune these days. To date, around 60 tonnes of fish from 28 cages on the lake died. Most of the dead fish are grass carp and red snapper. Around 60 tonnes of fish found dead on Plei Krong reservoir The provincial people’s committee have urged the local Department of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to set up an inspection team.Le Kha Tuyen in Dak Ha town said he had lost 20 tonnes of fish, valued at around VND800 million (USD36,360). He had to hire 30 people to gather the dead fish for burial.Another local resident Tran Van Tuan is also in the same situation with Tuyen, his family had raised fish on the lake for many years, but this was the first time such an incident had … [Read more...] about Mass fish deaths on Central Highlands lake
Central Highlands struggle to settle immigrants
VietNamNet Bridge – Sung Dao Can and his wife have cut down trees in a forest and on a hill to plant cassava and build a bare shack as they struggle to eke out a living.“I know it (deforestation) is wrong, but it is not just me. Many others have also done this to grow corn and cassava just to survive,” Can told the Nhan dan (People) newspaper.Can and his wife moved half-way across the country from their home in northern border province of Cao Bang two years ago. His family is just one of many who reside in Zone 265, a makeshift residential area at the edge of the Cu M’lan Commune in Dak Lak Province.The zone is about 30km away from the commune centre, but it takes more than two hours on bike on trails to reach it. Roughly 100 makeshift shacks with straw and wooden poles stand next to a vast area, once a thick forest, now dotted with dry tree stumps.Most of the residents here belong to ethnic minority communities, like Can and his wife, who are of Dao … [Read more...] about Central Highlands struggle to settle immigrants