Flash flooding triggered by a near-record downpour on Friday over one of the hottest, driest spots on Earth has stranded nearly 1,000 people inside California's Death Valley National Park and forced its temporary closure, park officials said. About 60 cars belonging to park visitors and staff were buried in several feet of debris at the Inn at Death Valley, an historic luxury hotel near the park headquarters in Furnace Creek, site of a spring-fed oasis near the Nevada border, the park said in a statement. Floodwaters also pushed trash dumpsters into parked cars, shoving vehicles into each other, and swamped many facilities, some hotel rooms and business offices, it said. No injuries were reported. But about 500 visitors and 500 park staff were unable to leave the park because all roads into and out of Death Valley were closed, according to the statement. A water treatment system that serves the Cow Creek area for park residents and offices was knocked out of service. The … [Read more...] about Flash floods strand 1,000 people in California’s Death Valley National Park
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3,500 sqm parking lot proposed for Tan Son Nhat airport
According to Southern Airports Authority and HCMC Transport Department, the parking lot aims to ease congestion along roads leading to the airport. So far, taxi drivers of both traditional and app-based services have parked on these roads while waiting to pick up arrivals due to a lack of parking space, Nguyen Minh Tuan, the authority's deputy head, told a city meeting Thursday. The proposed parking lot will cover in excess of 3,500 square meters, a third of a FIFA football pitch, near the route leading to the airport's international terminal. The state-owned lot is currently managed by the authority. Tuan said the number of international flights arriving at Tan Son Nhat has yet to reach its highest capacity under the impacts of the ongoing Ukraine war. In the near future, when those flights are recovered, more passengers will arrive. "It would be way too long to wait for the third terminal of Tan Son Nhat or the Long Thanh airport to be completed," Tuan said. According … [Read more...] about 3,500 sqm parking lot proposed for Tan Son Nhat airport
Park Hang Seo expected to enhance HCM City-Seoul tourism connection
The “Soulful Seoul Night in Ho Chi Minh City” was co-organized by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Tourism Organization. It aimed at boosting tourism connection between the biggest metropolis of Vietnam and the capital of the Republic of Korea. The organizers said they hope that with the participation of Coach Park Hang Seo , tourism cooperation between the two cities will expand further in the coming time. At the event, travel companies from the RoK exchanged information with businesses in HCM City to seek cooperation opportunities and develop Korean tourism packages. Meanwhile, visitors were briefed on the attractions as well as outstanding tourism infrastructure of the RoK's capital./. VNA … [Read more...] about Park Hang Seo expected to enhance HCM City-Seoul tourism connection
Frasers property towards 4Ds perspective
Decarbonisation Sustainability is now on the main agenda of countries, also be a social license for companies. Multinational real estate firms such as Frasers Property are in a privileged position to play a major role in reducing their carbon footprint. In line with group-wide sustainability goals, Frasers Property Vietnam is making significant progress towards its main sustainability goals. These are: being a net-zero carbon corporation by 2050; being climate-resilient and establishing adaptation and mitigation plans by 2024; green-certifying 80 per cent of its owned and asset-managed properties by 2024; financing the majority of its sustainable asset portfolios with green, sustainable financing by 2024; and training all of its employees on sustainability by 2021. Frasers Property recognises that emerging technologies and solutions will be critical to help the company accelerate its sustainability goals, so it is an ongoing journey to keep track of these possibilities and … [Read more...] about Frasers property towards 4Ds perspective
Vietnamese fishermen move to mountain to make ends meet in Mekong Delta
About ten years ago, when rivers in Vietnam's Mekong Delta started to run low on fish and shrimp, dozens of local households left the region for the Central Highlands in an attempt to eke out a living by fishing in reservoirs. The fishing skills of the Mekong Delta fishermen were easily adapted to the Se San Reservoir in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, where 34 households, mostly from An Giang and Hau Giang Provinces in the Mekong Delta, have been coping well with the uncertainty of their new lives in the mountains. Fishing on a mountain Dang Van Thuoc, a 40-year-old man, was one of the first Mekong Delta fishers to leave southern Vietnam for Kon Tum. He currently earns a living fishing in the Se San Reservoir. A woman sits on a floating house on the Se San Reservoir in Kon Tum Province, Vietnam. Photo : Tran Hoa / Tuoi Tre Thuoc and his relatives first settled by a small reservoir in nearby Dak Lak Province but they soon realized competition … [Read more...] about Vietnamese fishermen move to mountain to make ends meet in Mekong Delta
Da Lat proposes night market and pedestrian street construction
Authorities of Da Lat City in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong have proposed to develop a night market and pedestrianise streets. These facilities are part of a VND1.6 trillion (USD71.74 million) project to build a 120,000-square metre residential area in wards 8 and 9. Da Lat Night Market Of the total area, 14,000 square metres will be used for low-cost houses and apartments, a nursery school, and a park. The new Lu Gia pedestrian street would be 1.5 kilometres, running from the junction of Dinh Tien Hoang and Tran Quoc Toan Street to Da Lat Flower Garden. Meanwhile, the new night market would be built at Anh Sang Park. The current Da Lat Night Market and pedestrian streets are open on weekends and holidays. However, they are overloaded due to the rising number of tourists. … [Read more...] about Da Lat proposes night market and pedestrian street construction