The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism later adjudged that the building was located outside the Ma Pi Leng National Site, but it’s situated in the Dong Van Karst Plateau Geopark, an area where construction activities are restricted to purposes like security, tourism and essential infrastructure and a height of three floors. … [Read more...] about Controversial mountain pass restaurant asked to suspend operations
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Nam Huong communal house
A favourite cultural rendezvous to locals and tourists. Through many reconstructions, today, the communal house has the features of the Nguyen Dynasty architecture. It also preserves 19 ordinationedicts of the kings' dynasties to deify the mentioned Gods, prince and princess; the earliest ordination edict was dated from the reign of King Canh Hung King (1747), the latest dated from the reign of King Bao Dai King (1944); as well as many other worshiping antiques. … [Read more...] about Nam Huong communal house
Soc Trang: Poverty rate plunges to 2.66 pct. in five years
Soc Trang (VNA) - The poverty rate in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang fell from 17.89 percent in 2016 to 2.66 percent in 2020 thanks to the effectiveness of the National Target Programme on Sustainable Poverty Reduction. The result was revealed by Ma Chi Thanh, Deputy Director of the provincial Department of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs during a conference reviewing the five-year implementation of the programme in the Mekong Delta province on January 19. Thanh said that the number of poor households in Soc Trang was more than 57,800 in 2016, with Khmer ethnic minority families accounting for nearly 27 percent of the total. Five years later, the number was brought down to just over 8,610, or 2.66 percent of the total, he noted, adding that only 4.13 percent of Khmer ethnic minority households were classified as poor last year. The poverty rate declined more than 3 percent annually over the last five years - higher than the goal set by the provincial Party Committee … [Read more...] about Soc Trang: Poverty rate plunges to 2.66 pct. in five years