#Kon Tum

Another earthquake of 3.8 magnitude hit in Kon Plong district, the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum, on August 3, according to the Earthquake Information and Tsunami Warning under the Institute of Geophysics.

PSNews - Member of the Politburo and Minister of Public Security General To Lam, leading a working delegation of the Ministry of Public Security, paid a working trip to the Kon Tum Provincial Police Department, on the morning of November 30.

PSNews - Vi Ro Ngheo village in Kon Plong District, Kon Tom Province, is now officially recognized as a community-based tourism village after three years of development.

Three more tremors were reported in Kon Plong district of Kon Tum Province on August 27, raising the total number of earthquakes striking the area over the past four days to 16.

The first hot air balloon festival in Kon Tum Province has attracted a huge number of local residents and visitors, thereby contributing to promoting local tourism.

The Central Highlands province of Kon Tum and three provinces of Laos and Cambodia do not only share boundaries with each other along edges of the Annamese Mountains but also boast growing bonds in recent years.

The first Vietnam - Laos - Cambodia border friendship exchange in 2018 will take place in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum on November 2. 

PSNews – Continuing of the program “Tet for the poor 2018”, a charitable delegation of the Public Security (CAND) Newspaper and Duy Loi company on January 19 in collaboration with the Gia Lai and Kon Tum Provincial Police visited and presented Tet gifts to poor local people.

PSNews - The five-day exhibition displays 334 works and 39 items which reflect the daily lives, landscapes and culture of the 10 ASEAN member nations including Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Timor-East, Myanmar, Philippine and Thailand. 

Vietnam’s Central Highlands province of Kon Tum and southern provinces of Laos have enjoyed fruitful cooperation in recent years, especially in the fields of education, human resource development, socio-cultural activities, transport, tourism and agriculture.

Around 1840, as the Nguyen Kings banned Christianity in Vietnam, the Western missionaries moved to the faraway highlands in Kon Tum Province on the Mid-Vietnam plateau. 

With special love and sympathy for the deprivation of ethnic minority children, 34-year-old Ngo Thi Ly of Kon Nhen village in Kon Tum province has turned her house into a library where children can read, study, and play.

The five Central Highlands provinces of Dak Lak, Dak Nong, Gia Lai, Kon Tum and Lam Dong are actively taking measures on forest fire prevention in dry season.

PSNews - The Public Security Newspaper in collaboration with the Kon Tum Provincial Police and the Vietnam Joint Stock Commercial Bank for Industry and Trade (VietinBank) presented 100 Tet gifts (worth VND 500,000 each) to needy families in the border communes of Sa Loong and Dak Ang, Ngoc Hoi district, Kon Tum province.

Ambassador of the Republic of Korea visit Kon Tum to support recovery efforts in drought affected regions. 9,000 hygiene kits were distributed in three provinces – Kon Tum, Gia Lai, and Ca Mau reaching out to over 15,000 women and girls in these communities.