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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Lao Cai province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bac Giang (in Vietnamese, Bắc Giang) is a Province of Vietnam.
Hai Duong Province is a province in Vietnam.
Quang Binh Province is a province in Vietnam with a population of 812,600 and spans 8,025 km².
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Lao-Cai-province   (2026 words)

  
 Lao Cai Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lào Cai province is centered on the city of Lào Cai itself.
In the northwest of the province is Phan Xi Păng (a.k.a.
The province is bisected by the Red River, the most significant river of northern Vietnam, which flows out of China towards the capital Hanoi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lao_Cai_Province   (274 words)

  
 Vietnam Travel Guide - Lao Cai Province
Lao Cai is accessible to the Chinese area of Coc Leu through a steel bridge to the right side of the bridge.
If you are in Lao Cai on time for a regular market time you can enjoy the happy smiling faces of young girls of ethnic minority groups in their traditional colorful costumes.
Sapa is 38 kilometers from Lao Cai to the northwest.
vietnam.sawadee.com /laocai/attraction.htm   (365 words)

  
 Lao Cai province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Lao Cai (in Vietnamese, Lào Cai) is a province of Vietnam.
In the northwest of the province is Phan Xi Pang, Vietnam's highest mountain.The province is bisected by the Red River, the mostsignificant river of northern Vietnam, which flows out of China towards the capital Hanoi.
The population of Lao Cai province includes a number of Vietnam's ethnic minority groups, with the Hmong, Tay, and Dao being the mostnoticeable.
www.therfcc.org /lao-cai-province-30923.html   (235 words)

  
 Lao Cai.Việt Nam.
With 203 kilometres of border with China, Lao Cai is a borderland in north west of Vietnam.
Lao Cai, the starting point of the Red River in Vietnam, abounds with grandiose mountains, such as Phan Xi Pang, 3,143 metres high, the highest in Vietnam, Ta Giang Phinh, 3,090 metres, and Phu Luong, 2,983 metres, all containing rich natural resources.
In 2001, Lao Cai province achieved a record output of food, afforested 1,400 hectares, planted 402 hectares of fruit trees and 2.3 million trees, and preserved and grew 138,000 hectares of old forest.
www.vietmanitoba.com /vietlandscapes/lao_cai.htm   (500 words)

  
 Lao Cai - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Lao Cai
Town and capital of Lao Cai province in northern Vietnam, lying 260 km/160 mi northwest of Hanoi;; population (1990) 36,900.
The railway at Lao Cai, which runs from Hanoi to Yunnan province (China) was damaged during the French Indochina War (1946–54), and the frontier crossing was closed in 1979 during the war between China and Vietnam when the town was destroyed.
Lao Cai was subsequently rebuilt and the railway reopened in 1993.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Lao%20Cai   (161 words)

  
 The Lao
The Lao have about 9,600 inhabitants concentrated in the Dien Bien and Phong Tho districts of Lai Chau province, Song Ma district in Son La province and Than Uyen district in Lao Cai province.
The Lao practise ancestor worship and are influenced by Buddhism.
Lao folklore is influenced by that of the Thai.
www.angelfire.com /nh/hongnam/thelao.html   (459 words)

  
 Vietnam Travel Guide - Lao Cai Province
The province is endowed with both tropical and moderate climatic conditions.
Lao Cai is accessible by road, water and rail routes.
Visitors to the mountain province may enjoy a rice terraced fields crawling on high mountain slopes in summer.
vietnam.sawadee.com /laocai/index.htm   (285 words)

  
 ViêtNam | North East Region | Lao Cai Province | WomPom.ca | ...
Lao Cai is one of several provinces situated on the Sino-Vietnamese border.
Topography of Lao Cai is diversified with rivers, high mountain peaks, steep and high mountain passes, deep streams and wide valleys.
Lao Cai town was destroyed in the 1979 invasion of ViêtNam by the Chinese Army - who were thrown out in 20 days.
www.wompom.ca /vietnam/vnprovinc207.htm   (505 words)

  
 VietnamTrade.org :: Business News Archive
He said Lao Cai has potential for such a large resort as it is one of the most important border gates into China, and it is developing Kim Thanh into a free economic and trade zone.
Lao Cai Hotel rooms division manager Ho Thanh Tam said since the 34-room hotel opened last month, its business was picking up and many more Chinese are expected to be entertained at its international club which offers casino services.
Lao Cai Hotel is one of two foreign projects that applied for a license to build a hotel with casino services in Lao Cai last year.
www.vietnamtrade.org /news_archive.cfm?pubid=F31CBDAC-49EB-4FE8-B871-36F0C3B95819   (295 words)

  
 Sa Pa gets ready to celebrate birthday
Lao Cai people are smartening up their hotels, public spaces and cultural performances to entertain an estimated 10,000 guests who will come to Sa Pa for the celebrations.
The province and the Ministry of Culture and Information have produced a film chronicling tourism in Sa Pa and the many cultures and people in Lao Cai Province.
The province’s Trade and Tourist Service is also doing its bit, by training hotel and restaurant managers, volunteers and tourist guides to improve the quality of their services.
vietnamnews.vnanet.vn /travel/stories/23.htm   (1176 words)

  
 Nhan Dan ---Business
The northern mountainous border province of Lao Cai plans to invest VND 103 billion during the 2006-2010 period to expand tea areas to 4,800 hectares and upgrade the network of tea processing establishments.
During the next five year, Lao Cai will develop 830 more hectares of tea applying technical advances in the three districts of Bao Thang, Bat Xat and Muong Khuong.
Lao Cai tea has been sold well in both domestic and foreign markets.
www.nhandan.com.vn /english/business/081105/laocai.htm   (170 words)

  
 BVOM.COM - Vietnam Ethnic Features
Locality: Concentrated in Dien Bien and Phong Tho Districts of Lai Chau Province, Song Ma District of Son La Province, and Than Uyen District of Lao Cai Province.
The "mo lam" (sorcerers) of Lao culture are very good at writing and narrating ancient tales and folksongs.
Lao folklore and its legacy is heavily influenced by Thai culture.
www.bvom.com /resource/vn_ethnic.asp?pContent=lao   (227 words)

  
 Project number 5 : Thai Nienirrigation project
Lao Cai Province: area: 17,133 km2, population 531,000, provincial capital: Lao Cai Town.
This is one of several provinces on the Sino-Vietnamese border in the northwestern part of the country.
Thai Nien Commune is located in Bao Tang District, a rice-producing mountainous region near the northernmost part of Lao Cai Province.
www.microprojects-vietnam.org /report.asp?idx=5   (580 words)

  
 Lao Cai province   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Lao Cai province is centered on the of Lao Cai itself.
The province is bisected the Red River the most significant river of northern which flows out of China towards the Hanoi.
Much of the province is heavily The temperature generally ranges between 18° and although lowland areas tend to have less than mountainous areas.
www.freeglossary.com /Lao_Cai_province   (237 words)

  
 Asia Times - News and analysis from throughout Southeast Asia
Meanwhile, reform of the payment procedures is well under way with Lao Cai and Yunnan having allowed payment in local currencies through the banking system since 2003.
These provinces currently are completing final procedures to remove migration obstacles for tourists and commodity transportation.
Cargo trucks from Lao Cai province will be able to go as far as 600 kilometers into Yunnan.
www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/FI11Ae03.html   (351 words)

  
 VietnamTrade.org :: Business News Archive
The mountainous province of Lao Cai, 354 km northwest of Hanoi, has set a target of welcoming estimated 380,000 tourists this year, an increase of 50,000 over a year ago, with foreign visitors accounting for 60 percent of the targeted arrivals.
Tourist arrivals to the province shot up sharply in January and February, when a lot of people from Hanoi went to see snow in Sapa - rare scence in tropical Vietnam - and several lunar new year festivals of local ethnic minorities took place.
Last year, Lao Cai welcomed 326,000 tourists, 40 percent of whom were foreigners, including Chinese, British, French, American, German, Japanese, Australian and South Korean.
www.vietnamtrade.org /news_archive.cfm?pubid=001FB0E9-1F95-4FEE-AB94-5EBA90F5F6BB   (182 words)

  
 Documented cases of Christian oppression in Vietnam
December 25, 2001 - Hmong Christians in Tran Xoan hamlet in Lao Cai province were prevented from celebrating Christmas when authorities representing the four levels of government broke into their meetings and confiscated items being used for the worship service.
The documents are official Communist Party objectives on crushing and destroying Protestant Christianity among the tribal minorties of Vietnam’s northern Bao Thang District of Lao Cai Province.
Church elders in Phong Niem Commune in Lao Cai province were slapped and threatened by police who told them that after the Tet holiday a campaign would be launched to "entirely ban Christianity from the province." Other Hmong believers in Lao Chai faced similar treatment.
www.stormpages.com /vietland/document.html   (2150 words)

  
 Embassy of Japan in Vietnam
On 19 April, the inauguration of the project for construction of Xuan Giao I Primary School under the grass-roots assistance was held in Lao Cai Province.
Xuan Giao Commune in Bao Tan District, Lao Cai Province is a mountainous agricultural commune with population of about 8000 consisting of ethnic minorities such as Dao, Mong, Cao Lan, Nhan, and Thai.
The classrooms were badly damaged by natural disaster and in rainy season, they often got flooded, so it was not safe for the pupils to study.
www.vn.emb-japan.go.jp /html/pr_xuangiao.html   (387 words)

  
 Lao World Test
Masters espousing the "Path of the Saints", the name of Lao Tsu from China...
For Lao PDR (People's Democratic Republic), the poorest and least developed...
A high-ranking Lao delegation led by Bounthong Chitmany...
www.iaswww.com /ODP/Test/World/Lao   (326 words)

  
 Asia Times: Vietnam issues Lao Cai call to arms
The province shares a 203-kilometer border with China, and it already has an international border gate, a railway system and a lively border market.
Its plans will be aided by the province's scheme to simplify administrative procedures with a one-seal policy that will speed up the movement of goods through the Lao Cai border gate.
The number of people passing through Lao Cai's border gates has also increased in recent years, because of simplified exit and entry procedures.
atimes.com /se-asia/CL21Ae02.html   (453 words)

  
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Thu Lao -- Thu Lao is a Central Tai language of Muong Khuong District of Lao Cai Province.
Padi is a SW Tai language found in Muong Khuong District of Lao Cai Province, which has, however, been officially classified with Tay (a Central Tai language complex).
There is a certain linguistic irony that the people of this economically underdeveloped area speak a language that is in terms of tone splits, tone values, phonology, and lexicon coincidentally very similar to Central Thai of Bangkok City, one of the most prosperous areas of SE Asia.
ling.uta.edu /~jerry/research/map.html   (2976 words)

  
 Lao Cai Province
I corsi di arrampicata ed alpinismo, le attività alpinistiche della sede CAI di Firenze, i rifugi CAI e il meteo in Toscana.
Lao Tzu, the reputed author of the work, was a librarian.
Società Escursionisti Milanesi: filiazione del CAI, mette in rete corsi di alpinismo, previsioni meteo, i rifugi più belli, le gite, le avventure e gli appuntamenti della stagione.
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In this case, the views from the province and the capital are complementary.
One of the documents--produced by the Bureau of Minority and Religious Affairs in Lao Cai in December 1998--is a detailed Marxist analysis charging that Vietnamese Christians have colluded with Vietnam's enemies since prior to the country's colonization by France in the mid-19th century.
The Lao Cai document reports that the number of Protestant Christians in the province had grown from zero in 1991 to 50,000 seven years later.
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Lao Cai is one of several provinces situated on the Sino-Vietnamese border in the northwestern part of the country.
One leaves at 6.05 am and arrives in Lao Cai at 3.30 pm; another train departs from Hanoi at 10 pm and arrives in Lao Cai at 7.10 am the next morning.
From Lao Cai to Hanoi, the train departs at 10.20 am and arrives in Hanoi at 7.20 pm.
www.backpacktovietnam.com /hotels-sapa.php   (1087 words)

  
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Lao Cai is the northwestern province bordering Yunnan province and the location of the primary border crossing between China and Vietnam along Yunnan.
PATH’s objectives in Lao Cai are related to building capacity for provincial staff working on the national AIDS program and with provincial policy makers.
One major constraint to the national immunization program is that for most communities, immunization is only available on a designated day and infants do not usually receive their first dose of any vaccine until they are aged at least several weeks or months, especially the much-needed hepatitis B vaccine.
www.rotary5030.org /rotaryinvietnam/path.htm   (2499 words)

  
 ChooseSpain.com - Travel Forum
Situated in northern mountainous Lao Cai province, at an altitude of 1,000m above sea level, the town of Sa Pa is not only famous as a tourist attraction and for its economic potential but also for its traditional handicrafts.
Craftsmen in Lao Cai province made everyday items such as belts, ashtrays, combs, Buddha statues and other bric-a-brac from materials such as wood, rattan and hemp.
Brocade from Sa Pa is imbedded with the identities of Lao Cai’s indigenous ethnic minorities.
www.aardvarktravel.net /choose-spain-forum/viewtopic.php?p=22367   (486 words)

  
 Communist Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
The 1945 uprising in Lao Cai took place two months later than the whole country but was still a component of the August 1945 Revolution.
This event taught the Lao Cai provincial Party Committee a precious lesson about building the grassroots level and revolutionary officials in national liberation and construction of the socialist homeland.
That precious historical lesson was creatively applied by the Lao Cai Party Committee and people to the national construction and defence process in the following periods.
www.tapchicongsan.org.vn /show_topic.pl?topic=16&PubID=90   (414 words)

  
 10. DECIDUOUS FRUIT PRODUCTION IN VIETNAM
These are currently grown in the provinces of Ha Giang, Cao Bang, Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Tuyen Quang, Lang Son, Bac Thai, Son La, Vinh Phu, Quang Ninh, Hoa Binh and also in the Dalat region (Lam Dong province) in the South (Table 1).
In 1995, a thousand certified disease-free plum rootstock seeds of Myrobalan B were received from France and planted in Hanoi, Moc Chau (Son La Province) and at Sapa (Lao Cai Province).
In the Bac Ha region (Lao Cai province), however, peach is propagated by grafting, but budding techniques are not used at all.
www.fao.org /DOCREP/004/AB985E/ab985e0b.htm   (2599 words)

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