Pleiku, Vietnam News

First inta l gong fest hit by organizing spat The first international gong festival will be held in the Central highlands province of Gia Lai from November 8-11 The withdrawal of a well-known stage director just a day after the first international gong festival was publicly announced in the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai is only a hiccup, ...

Joan Furey was an Army nurse in Pleiku. Joan Furey, Sayville, 62. Retired from Department of Veterans Affairs, where she was a nurse and oversaw women's programs.

The Tay Nguyen province of Gia Lai will host the first International Gong Festival from November 8 to 11.

Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a proposal by the Civil Aviation Administration of Viet Nam to open four new domestic air routes from July 2. The move will not only make new destinations more accessible but will also shorten flying times up and down the country.

The Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam has publicized four new domestic air routes that have been adjusted to make them shorter in a move to help airlines cut operating costs in this challenging time.

Phu Cuong is a spectacular waterfall 45 kilometers southwest of Pleiku, the provincial capital of Gia Lai in the Central Highlands.

It was my most memorable Memorial Day in June 1969. The sky was a deep blue and merged into the blue Pacific Ocean just a few miles away.

Visitors to the Vietnam Memorial lay flowers and items of remembrance near the Vietnam Wall in Washington, D.C. Abbott graduated from Philipsburg- Osceola High School in 1962, worked for a time at the Presbyterian Home for the Aged, then joined the Army in 1965.

Earl Hicks has thought about the children he fathered while serving in Vietnam almost every day for four decades.

VietNamNet Bridge a ' The National Assembly Standing Committee has asked the State Audit of Vietnam agency to conduct two more audits at the PetroVietnam Financial JS Corporation and the Vietnam National Tobacco Corporation.

A celebration of Jesse Davis' life will held mid-May in central Ohio. Notice of the memorial will be posted in this newspaper after plans are finalized.

Louis Brantley didn't know many of the people who came to watch him accept a Purple Heart from U.S. Rep.

Tim Sullivan was in the U.S. Army and served in Vietnam between 1967-69 with "C" Company, 3rd Bn., 12th Inf., 4th Inf.

Legend, among the ethnic minorities for whom the Central Highlands is home, has it that a peaceful village once stood where the Ta Nung Lake is today.

The economy shows the first signs of strain amidst the global crisis Though Viet Nam's economy had remained stable even amidst the current global economic crisis, it was beginning to show signs of decline, ...

Security officials at the Pleiku Airport in the Central Highlandsa province of Gia Lai yesterday discovered a grenade in the luggage of a passenger boarding a flight to central Da Nang City.

Hidden underground and compressed by the weight of centuries, a special kind of semi-precious gem is formed a ' petrified wood a ' that holds deep aesthetic and medicinal value in Viet Nam.

Gia Lai Province in Tay Nguyen is set to host the 2009 International Gong Festival in Pleiku City in the third quarter of this year.

Vaughn Binzer spent Christmas Eve 1965 in a helicopter over Vietnam looking for approaching Vietcong soldiers.

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