A new magnolia species has been discovered in the Bidoup – Nui Ba national park in Lam Dong province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.

According to Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism, the number visitors coming to  Lam Dong in during the Lunar New Year reached 198,000 people, the highest number ever since.

Viet Nam's Guinness Records has granted a certificate to the first-ever Stone Museum in the country, owned by artisan Dinh Cong Phuong. The 6ha museum, located at 2/4 Tran Phu Street, Loc Nga District, Bao Loc City in the Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) province of Lam Dong, showcases more than 3,000 stone samples and objects.

Most of the southern parts of the country have seen sunny days and pleasant weather during the Tet Lunar New Year holiday season, creating ideal conditions for visitors to visit popular tourist destinations, the beautiful city of Da lat among others.

Da Lat, located on the Lam Vien (Langbian) plateau, is cool and comfortable throughout the year. It is known as the City of Flowers, the City of Pines and the City of Love. Thien Ly reports.
Da Lat is a city that has so many things going for it that it gets a new name every once in a while.

On the occasion of Nham Thin Spring - 2012, The Provincial Party Committee, The People's Council, The People's Committee, and The Provincial Vietnamese Fatherland Front of Lam Dong Province would like to send all provincial fellow citizens, officers, soldiers, families under preferential treatment policy, intelligentsia, religious organizations, agencies, units and enterprises in the province, as well as all local people who are living, studying and working away from home a New Year wish: "Unity, health, Security and prosperity. "

The Tay Nguyen (Central Highlands) region should continue to implement Politburo Resolution 10 through 2020 on socio-economic development so that it can remain politically stable and secure, Senior Lieutenant General Tran Dai Quang, Minister of Public Security, has said.

Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has urged the Government Inspectorate to be more determined to prevent moral and political degradation among cadres.

The Da Lat Flower Festival 2012 opened with a grand performance before an 12,000-member audience in the resort city of Da Lat on Saturday.

Tea exports fell 4.3 per cent in volume and 0.8 per cent in value last year over the previous year, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said yesterday.