Keyword: "Dak Lak"

By the end of 2025, Dak Lak aims to build or renovate a total of 7,312 houses, with the ultimate goal of eradicating all makeshift and dilapidated houses.

Lao students and communities in Vietnam celebrated their traditional Bunpimay New Year Festival 2025 (Buddhist calendar 2568) with vibrant cultural events held in both Hue City and Dak Lak province.

In recent years, the Department of Education and Training of Dak Lak province has actively collaborated with the cultural sector to safeguard and promote cultural values of ethnic minorities in the Central Highlands. Various programs and initiatives have been implemented, offering students diverse activities that deepen their understanding of traditional heritage.

Half a century after liberation, Buon Ma Thuot city in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has made remarkable progress, steadily rising as a key urban hub in the region. In the 2021- 2025 period, the city’s average economic growth rate reached 13.3%, while its annual social development investment saw an increase of 14% on average to reach 125,354 billion VND (4.9 billion USD).

Elephant-friendly tourism is a responsible form that helps minimise the impact of tourism activities on elephant health, contributing to conservation efforts and sustainable elephant tourism.

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has officially recognised the coffee planting and processing knowledge of the coffee production hub of Dak Lak as part of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage list, acknowledging the rich agricultural and cultural heritage of the Central Highlands region.

This year’s festival, themed “Buon Ma Thuot – Coffee City,” featured 17 official activities alongside various supporting events across the province. Notably, the festival coincided with the 50th anniversary of Buon Ma Thuot’s victory and the liberation of Dak Lak province (March 10, 1975 – 2025). The event attracted around 250,000 visitors, including 1,800 international guests, leaving a lasting impression with its vibrant cultural programmes rich in traditional identity.

Up to 500 drones took to the night sky over Buon Ma Thuot, reflecting the beauty and spirit of the city, dubbed the coffee capital of Vietnam.

In the 2023-2024 season, Vietnam exported 1.47 million tonnes of coffee worth 5.42 billion USD, an 11.3% decrease in volume but a 33% increase in value as compared to the previous crop. Dak Lak alone shipped abroad over 264,400 tonnes valued at 915.8 million USD, accounting for 17.9% of the country's total volume.

The Buon Ma Thuot Coffee Festival not only honours Vietnamese coffee—symbolising creativity and success—but also serves as a globally significant forum where coffee producing and consuming nations come together to shape a shared vision for a sustainable coffee industry.

The fair provides an opportunity for businesses and investors to showcase outstanding coffee and OCOP products, exchange experiences, expand cooperation, and set up partnerships.

On March 2, the provincial Department of Public Security broke ground on the first home for the family of Y Than Ksor in Kmien village, Ea Drong commune, Buon Ho township. This marks the start of the province’s initiative to eliminate makeshift and dilapidated houses as part of a national campaign launched by the Prime Minister on October 1, 2024.

Accordingly, these tours offer diverse experiences, including whitewater rafting, off-road forest adventures, boat trips on the Serepok River, and cultural encounters with M’nong elephant trainers. Other highlights include heritage tours, a journey through the legendary Don village, and a visit to the Lak district dugout canoe race.

Support initiatives not only help individuals but also provide families with the resources to achieve long-term financial stability.

BPSOS operates under the guise of refugee relief but in fact exploits this activity to connect and assist organisations and individuals in carrying out activities to undermine Vietnam.

The opening ceremony themed “Buon Ma Thuot - Destination of World Coffee” on March 10 will be a highlight of the event, showcasing vivid images of coffee, coffee culture, people, and the Central Highlands gong culture space, potential, strengths and tourism of Dak Lak.

Dak Lak province currently has 5,405 households in need of housing improvements, including 4,285 requiring new homes and 1,120 needing repairs.

In recent years, the National Flag Road model has been widely developed across many localities in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, serving as a testament to the spirit of great national unity and making a practical contribution to the movements of building new-style rural areas and civilised urban areas.

This Lunar New Year (Tet), the family of H’Yoan Nie from Ea Su village, Ea Pok town, Cu M’gar district, the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, welcomes Tet in a brand-new home.

A total of 15,456 households, comprising 58,540 individuals, received rice aid during this period. Each individual was allocated 15kg of rice.