travel to the Sapa region where we'll hike through rice fields and explore limestone mountains, and then head north to Ha Long Bay for our last few days in Vietnam, cruising the bay's beautiful blue waters aboard a traditional Asian sailing boat. Our journey ends in Siem Reap, Cambodia ...
“For Art there is no Ugliness in Nature” “I have arrived at this belief by the study of Nature. I can only grasp the beauty of the soul by the beauty of the body, but some day one will come who will explain what I only catch a glimpse of and will declare how the whole earth...
The new emperor had chosen the name Nam Viet for his kingdom. The word Viet he derived from the traditional name for the Vietnamese imperial domain and its people in what is now northern and central Vietnam. Nam (south) had been added to acknowledge the expansion of the dynasty's ...
Based on the 2008–2010 Global Adult Tobacco Survey data conducted in 14 LMICs, among reproductive age women, the prevalence of tobacco use ranged from 0.4% in Egypt to 30.8% in Russia, and SHS exposure at home ranged from 17.8% in Mexico to 72.3% in Vietnam (CDC, 2012). Another ...
Vietnam and China are the nearest neighbors on the mainland of Asia. The islands are volcanic in origin. Mount Mayon in southern Luzon erupted in 2000. Mount Pinatubo in central Luzon erupted in 1991 and 1992. Both eruptions caused destruction of villages and farms and displaced thousands of...
It is positioned in Central Asia and is surrounded by China, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan. The Kingdom of Cambodia, with a population of about sixteen million, is located on the Indochina Peninsula between Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand. Contemporary Cambodia is a fraction of the traditi...
Wheelus arrived in Vietnam in Oct. 1970, where he served 33 months in the Combat Zone aboard USS Okla- homa City which provided troop support and ground fire from the Mekong Delta up the coast to Hanoi, partici- pating in Operation Linebacker. USS Oklahoma was the first ship to use a ...
I. Introduction Fuelwood is the forest commodity produced in large quantities and is the principal component of rural domestic energy in India and in many other developing countries. It is an alarming fact that today in the 21st century there are still billions of people who totally rely on ...
In northern Vietnam, women have stronger preferences than men when it comes to food production through agroforestry systems. In the beginning, men were restricted and afraid to change the method of production or the land use, since they believed that the soil was not suitable for the production...