The number of foreign tourists visiting Viet Nam so far this year is estimated at 14.2 million, up 21.3 per cent against the same period last year, the General Statistics Office said on Thursday.
Chuyên mục: Địa lý – Geography
UNESCO: Climate Change and World Heritage
World Heritage properties are affected by the impacts of climate change at present and in the future. Their continued preservation requires understanding these impacts to their Outstanding Universal Value and responding to them effectively.
World Heritage properties also harbour options for society to mitigate and adapt to climate change through the ecosystem benefits, such as water and climate regulation, that they provide and the carbon that is stored in World Heritage forest sites. Cultural heritage, on the other hand, can convey traditional knowledge that builds resilience for change to come and leads us to a more sustainable future.
World Heritage properties serve as climate change observatories to gather and share information on applied and tested monitoring, mitigation and adaptation practices. The global network of World Heritage also helps raise awareness on the impacts of climate change on human societies and cultural diversity, biodiversity and ecosystem services, and the world’s natural and cultural heritage. Tiếp tục đọc “UNESCO: Climate Change and World Heritage”
List of World Heritage Sites threatened by climate change
Report by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), 2016.
[TĐH: The ancient town of Hội An is on this list]
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Complete list of locations
Explore in-depth case studies and snapshots of World Heritage sites at risk. Links go to the relevant sections of the full report (requires PDF download).
Africa
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We’re Covering Heritage Sites Threatened by Climate Change. The List Just Got Longer.
By Kendra Pierre-Louis Oct. 16, 2018 New York Times
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One of the cruelties of global warming is that it threatens humanity’s past as well as its future.
That was brought into sharp focus by a study issued Tuesday. It says that some of the most important ancient sites in the Mediterranean region — the Greek city of Ephesus, Istanbul’s historic districts, Venice’s canals — might not survive the era of climate change.
Tiếp tục đọc “We’re Covering Heritage Sites Threatened by Climate Change. The List Just Got Longer.”
Ngôi chùa kiến trúc Angkor đẹp bậc nhất ở Bạc Liêu
Chùa Xiêm Cán mang lối kiến trúc Angkor, là công trình tôn giáo độc đáo của vùng Nam Bộ.
Ngôi chùa hơn 50 năm không bao giờ thắp nhang ở Sài Gòn
VNE – Chủ nhật, 8/7/2018, 02:08 (GMT+7)
Chùa Bửu Long có khuôn viên rộng và không bao giờ thắp nhang, người dân chỉ đến cầu nguyện, tham quan.
Thánh đường Hồi giáo hơn 80 năm tuổi ở trung tâm Sài Gòn
VNE – Thứ hai, 4/6/2018, 02:08 (GMT+7)
Được xây dựng từ năm 1935, Thánh đường Hồi giáo Jamia Al-Musulman là nơi các tín đồ đạo Hồi đến hành lễ tại Sài Gòn.
The peddler girl from Sa Pa who made it big
She was named by Forbes Vietnam as one of the 30 most influential under-thirty in the country.

Tan Thi Shu was born in 1986 in a poor H’Mong family in Sa Pa, a beautiful mountainous town in the northern province of Lao Cai.
Her family was in fact so poor it could only afford one meal a day. She started working at the age of 12, selling brocade fabric. A year later, like most of her peers, she became a peddler in Sa Pa.
Her mind was always teeming with unanswered questions: “Why are my parents so poor? Why am I different from the rest? Why can’t I go to school and have the same opportunities as others? Wherever I go, I can’t find anyone else who looks like me…”.
She recalls how self-conscious and miserable she felt when some children visiting Sa Pa made fun of her short stature and looks. Tiếp tục đọc “The peddler girl from Sa Pa who made it big”
Thăm nhà thờ công giáo đầu tiên tại Việt Nam
Chủ Nhật, 16/03/2014 – 10:18
(Dân trí) – Một trong những nhà thờ công giáo được cho là xây dựng đầu tiên tại Việt Nam là nhà thờ Hội An. Qua tìm hiểu, chúng tôi xin cung cấp một số tư liệu để độc giả hiểu thêm về nhà thờ này, và đây cũng là một địa điểm thu hút du khách.
Kỳ 1: Người đầu tiên sáng tạo ra chữ Quốc ngữ
Đầu thế kỷ 17, Chúa Nguyễn cho phép những người nước ngoài đến làm ăn, buôn bán chính thức tại Hội An; trong đó các nhà buôn người Nhật và Hoa Kiều chiếm đại đa số. Năm 1614, chính quyền Nhật Bản thực hiện lệnh cấm đạo nên các giáo sĩ truyền đạo bỏ đi. Họ lên đường đến thương cảng Hội An. Tiếp tục đọc “Thăm nhà thờ công giáo đầu tiên tại Việt Nam”
Community-based tourism and new livelihoods in Vietnam

By Tran Thuy Binh
Can Thanh, Vietnam, September 17, 2018
Despite knowing the damage she was causing, Nguyen Thi Vang still walks through the coral reef in the Tam Hai sea to collect seaweed for her daily meals. “When I walk, I heard its broken sound and I feel painful,” said Nguyen. “Yet I need seaweed.”
When seaweed dies it floats on the water. But due to high demand locals pick the seaweed while it is still alive, walking over and often breaking parts of the coral reef. While the harvest season traditionally starts in May, Nguyen and other locals collect earlier. “People from other communes come and if we do not harvest they will collect it all,” said Nguyen. Tiếp tục đọc “Community-based tourism and new livelihoods in Vietnam”
A Saigon xe om lady who can’t stop smiling
VNexpress International
There are days she earns nothing, but this rarity, a female motorbike taxi driver in Saigon, is all smiles.
Discovering the Ancient Craft Villages of Vietnam

Ehrin Macksey / Project Bly
The Red River Valley
The Red River valley in Vietnam has a long and rich artisanal history, and this was one of the reasons why Emperor Lý Thái Tổ picked Hanoi as the imperial capital in 1010. Hundreds of specialized craft villages, like Ha Thai surround Hanoi. After it was declared the capital, craftsmen from these villages began to establish workshops in what is now known as the Old Quarter. Today, each street in the Old Quarter is still known for a specific craft and linked to the village where it it originated.
Tiếp tục đọc “Discovering the Ancient Craft Villages of Vietnam”
Probe ordered into handover of Hmong royal palace to gov’t department

Vietnam authorities have agreed to “look into” how the former Hmong royal family’s palace was handed over for use to a local culture department.
The decision came following angry demands by the family in the northern highlands’ Ha Giang Province.
Vuong Duy Bao, grandson of the last Hmong King, Vuong Chi Sinh (or Vuong Chi Thanh, 1886-1962), wrote a letter to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc last month asking for the century-old palace to be returned to the family. Tiếp tục đọc “Probe ordered into handover of Hmong royal palace to gov’t department”
The History of Hanoi’s Lost Tramway Network
- Saigoneer.com
- Published on Monday, 01 February 2016 10:37
- Written by Tim Doling.

When they first drew up plans for a citywide tramway network in 1894, it seemed as though the Hanoi authorities would follow Saigon’s example by opting for steam traction. Yet, by the time government approval was forthcoming in 1899, advances in technology made it possible to construct the entire system as a state-of-the-art, one-meter gauge electric tramway.
In 1900, the Compagnie des Tramways Électriques d’Hanoï et Extensions (CTEH) was to set up to build the first two tramway lines, which were jointly inaugurated in November 1901.
Tiếp tục đọc “The History of Hanoi’s Lost Tramway Network”
A Throwback to Saigon’s Original Tramway Network
- Saigoneer.com
- Published on Monday, 05 December 2016 11:06
- Written by Tim Doling.

As ever-increasing levels of traffic congestion and air pollution turn many of Ho Chi Minh City’s road junctions into choking bottlenecks, many hopes are pinned on plans to construct a new urban railway network in the southern metropolis. Yet urban railways are hardly a new concept in this city, which was once home to one of Southeast Asia’s largest urban tramway networks.
Indochina’s first mechanized rail-guided transportation system was the one-meter gauge Saigon–Cho Lon “high road” steam tramway, operated by the Societe Generale des Tramways a Vapeur de Cochinchine (SGTVC) and opened to the public on December 27, 1881.
Tiếp tục đọc “A Throwback to Saigon’s Original Tramway Network”



