Dak Lak

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Antique collector dreams of building private museum

 A woman in central highlands Dak Lak Province has spent many years collecting antiquities in the region and she wishes to open a private museum to exhibit nearly 3,000 items.  

In Dak Lak’s Lak, basking in the upland beauty

 VietNamNet Bridge – Endowed with favourable natural conditions, many high mountains, long rivers and large lakes, the tourism industry of Lak District is relatively developed and is an important chain in tourism development

Conservation plan launched to protect elephants

 VietNamNet Bridge – The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development has green-lighted an urgent project to bolster elephant conservation efforts and restrict ivory trading in Viet Nam by 2020.

People destroy elephants’ house in central region

 VietNamNet Bridge – Dak Lak provincial authorities have allocated tens of thousands of hectares of forest land to private companies to grow rubber. The elephants’ house, therefore, has been devastated.

20 wild elephants disturb town, attack people

 VietNamNet Bridge – Yesterday, September 26, a herd of wild elephants with about 20 heads disturbed people in village 5 in Ea Sup town, Ea Sup district of the central highlands province of Dak Lak.

Several die in eighth tropical storm of year

 VietNamNet Bridge – This year's eighth tropical storm has killed at least three people, left one missing, one injured, and seven farmers isolated after bringing torrential rains to central and central highland regions.

Park boss battles hydro-power dam

 VietNamNet Bridge – The chief of the Yok Don National Park has strongly opposed a project to build a 28MW hydro-power project in its core zone, saying he will resign from his post if such a project was allowed to go through.

The fate of hydropower plant project in national park unclear

VietNamNet Bridge – Dak Lak authorities affirmed it would stop the project, which is located in Chu Yang Sin National Park, the Ministry of Industry and Trade affirmed that the project implementation will continue.

Hydro-power plant to be built in national park

 VietNamNet Bridge – A small hydro-power plant project is going through the final procedures before being built in the Chu Yang Sin National Park in Dak Lak Province.

Lak Lake – pride of Daklak

Waterfalls, forests, rivers and mountains are the pride of locals in the Central Highlands region. For people in Daklak, along with Buon Don Tourist Village, Trung Nguyen Coffee, Draysap and Trinh Nu waterfalls, Lak Lake is the pride of the province.

TRAVEL NEWS IN BRIEF

 Ethnic heritage gets ready for 2014; Dak Lak's charming lake in the Central Highlands attracts interest; Preparations underway for National Tourism Year 2014

Dak Lak plagued by wild elephants

 VietNamNet Bridge – Farmer Nguyen Van Hai in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak does not dare to stay alone overnight in his small thatched-leaf shelter to protect his 1-ha corn field.

Dak Lak province: people lose sleep over wild elephants

 VietNamNet Bridge – Not only destroying hundreds of hectares of cultivated crops, the wild elephants in the central province of Dak Lak have become even more aggressive, repeatedly striking down people to death.

Dengue fever hits 2,000 in Dak Lak

 VietNamNet Bridge – More than 2,000 cases of dengue fever have been reported in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak so far this year, a 30-fold increase over the same period last year,

Banking officers involved in million USD bank fraud

VietNamNet Bridge - Using fake documents and the help of some banking officers, some businessmen appropriated over VND1 trillion of three banks.

Protecting swamp cypress treasures in Vietnam

Swamp cypress only left in China and Vietnam. Rare wood collectors are urgently hunting this especially rare plant, putting the protection task of this rare species in numerous challenges.

Dak Lak: Trapped elephant rescued

 VietNamNet Bridge – The young wild elephant that was trapped in the National Park of Yok Don in Dak Lak Province was rescued on May 14.

Vietnam vows not to let foreigners touch its material growing areas

The Vietnamese laws clearly stipulate that foreign businessmen are not allowed to collect materials directly from Vietnamese farmers. However, they still have been attempting to control the material growing areas in Vietnam to optimize their profits.

A wild elephant gets trapped

 VietNamNet Bridge – A young wild elephant has been caught in a poacher's trap in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak for three days, despite efforts by relevant authorities to free him.

Lienviet Postbank advance at Asian volleyball competition

VietNamNet Bridge – Lienviet Postbank pocketed a ticket to the semi-final round of the Asian Women's Volleyball Club Championship in Dak Lak Province.