Tuyen Lam Lake, Dalat, Vietnam

Tuyen Lam Lake is in Dalat City, the Highlands region of Vietnam. Lines of circular pines go along two borders of the lake, far away are hills.
Nowadays, Dalat City is no more a tourist city. The urbanization deprives of its green environment that is replaced by residential areas.
It is really a disappointment for those coming back to Dalat to revive their ancient souvenirs. On top of that, the local government does not have long-term projects to retain this city as a tourist place.  

Ta Pa Lake, An Giang Province, Vietnam

Ta Pa Lake in An Giang Province is circled by grandiose cliffs. The turquoise water reflects the beauty of nature.

Ta Pa Mountain is one of the seven mountains in this region. Tourism has not been developed yet, thus back packers will discover the serenity.  

Hoan Kiem lake, Vietnam

Hoan Kiem Lake sits in the centre of Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Hoan Kiem means returning sword. The photo above depicts the reflection of a red bridge on the lake.

Son Doong Cave, Vietnam

Son Doong Cave is bordered with Laos' boundary, one of the largest passages in Vietnam. A photo features primitive scenes of nature that is one of the tourist attractions. 

A school girl on the way to school

A school girl in a white long wear, pushing a bicycle on a ground path, bordering two lines of green grass, under yellow flower trees is a common scene in rural areas in Vietnam. The whiteness of long dress represents virtue, ignorance of a teen age girl who just thinks of schooling.

Nowadays, under the influence of western fashion style, rarely Vietnamese girls go out in this traditional clothes. The image of this dress may be seen on occasions of the festival.

Pho, Vietnamese specialty.

Pho is a beef soup, one of Vietnam's specialties that includes beef, chisel, rice noodle, soup. Beef is rarely done. Put a bit of juice of a lemon. If the soup is flat, add some black soybean sauce. If you want the soup is chilly, put some red sauce. Then enjoy Pho. What a food! 

Vietnamese girls in white long dress

A white long dress is a school uniform of teenaged girls. They have to wear it on the first day of a week to stand for a flag. This wear represents the virtue, innocence of a girl. A long dress and a conic hat commonly represents the image of Vietnam.

Nowadays, due to the influence of western fashion style, young girls have shunned the traditional clothes that highlight the gracefulness of a slender body.

Ha Long Bay, Vietnam

Ha Long Bay is one of the tourist attractions in Vietnam where Director of Film and Producer Jordan Vogt-Roberts determined to film Skull Island 2017. It is in northeast Vietnam and is noted for emerald water with limestone islands. 

Junk boats are common means to transport tourists to these small islands in this bay. The intense exploitation of tourism has influenced on the beauty of nature in this area.  

Lam Tuyen Lake

Lam Tuyen Lake is 6km from the south of Da Lat City that sits in the Highlands region of Vietnam. It is one of the tourist attractions as the climate is mild. Hardly knows anybody about the name of this lake. Lam stands for forest and Tuyen represents streams that combine a setting in this area.

Dalat City is a destination for tourist to hit on greeting seasons.

The New York Times and Wall Street journal in a fight against Google and Facebook

Under the growing dominance of Google and Facebook on online ad and distribution, the New York Times, Wall Street journal and small new papers are banding as a trade organisation to ask Congress for a limited antitrust exemption. This New Media Alliance (NMA) expects to have a concrete meeting with Google and Facebook to find necessary solutions to secure the availability of local journalism. 

The discussion circles around a fair share of revenue and data, subscription models and protection for publishers' intellectual property. Even though two giant online news distributors and publishers find new revenue streams and build contents designed for their platforms like Accelerated Mobile Pages and Instant Article, publishers still concern about a rocky relationship with both platforms as more content-including fake news flow through them. This year, Google and Facebook gain a $83 billion jump in revenue, including Facebook's growth of 32.1 percent and Facebook's growth of 14.8 percent.   
The existing media competition laws prohibit publishers to negotiate with platforms at a large scale. The formation of MNA is an intriguing move and indicative of two online news distributors' clout. It is the duopoly of Google and Facebook that publishers surrender their content and play by their rule on how news and information is displayed, prioritized, and monetized. These rules have given rise to a fake news that is hard to discern from real news.   


The New York Times and Wall Street Journal in fight with Google and Facebook

Vietnam's tricycle

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Every morning, he drives a number of element students to school. They live in a livelihood. Their parents are manual workers who work night shifts and cannot drive them to school as they are exhausted after work.
He loves children so he is willing to bring them school with or without a pay. On a daily basis, we need sharing of love to overcome difficulties in life. 

Moon games

Stupidity

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Fishing net

While a husband is steering a small boat, a wife is tossing a fishing net in the air. They leave very early their home to earning their living by fishing. Their life is "packed" with hardship but their income is too little. In addition, the pollution caused by industrial wasting threatens their daily livelihood. Especially in Vietnam, the government cannot solve this social issue to ensure the safety of food.  

Fishing

Fishing is full of toil and moil but a fisherman does not make both ends meet. Early in the morning, leaving their home without frugal breakfast, they sink their body into cold water in a twilight of sunrise till sunset. Their industry is threatened by the pollution of industrial wasting that has caused a sea of the maritime creature's death. Their financial burden weighs more on their shoulders: less income and increasing cost of living. Their children have to drop out to help them in fishing. Their gloomy future is ahead.  

Community tourism in Vietnam

A kind of tourism has arisen in the Central Highlands of Vietnam where tourists live and work with farmers. A photo depicts a western tourist is watering strips of vegetables under a farmer's instruction and applause. It is an interesting experience a tourist learns about: working on a farm, enjoying local specialities

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An innocent look of a poor child

Ke, aged 9, is helping her parents pick up antimony-contained stones to break it up for this chemical element. She dropped out and has spent most of her time working day and night in the antimony area. Her parents just think of the present, how to make both ends meet without worrying about her dark future that is waiting on the horizon. This is a de facto situation in Vietnam's far remote areas.

Looking at her innocent face, she does not really know that risks are lurking in her job on a daily basis. Her future is attached to such a kind of manual work that leads her life to an impasse.

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Junior miner's risky life

Hanging on a huge antimony discharging area, they risk their lives to find out this chemical element. Children of ethnic minority groups do not know the death grim reaper is waiting for them if they are careless. Due to the family in need, many parents let their children work in unsafe working condition to earn their living. Instead of working under a scorching sun, they have to go to school to broaden their knowledge, to develop their skills to be a mixed citizen in the society.

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Junior miner in Vietnam

Tu. aged 10, is hammering stones to find out antimony, a chemical element contained in stones that are discharged from a company. Stones are usually big, hard that breaking them into small pieces is a hardship. She dropped out to help her family. This is a living of a child in Vietnam's rural area.

This is one of the distressing stories of minor ethnic children who are uneducated and accept manual jobs to earn their living. The law of labour prohibits this practice, however, there is always a gap in the locality.

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