The noble act of blood donation goes a long way to saving lives and one young man in the Central Highlands has played a significant role in delivering safe blood to the needy in hospitals.

Two more local people in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak have been diagnosed with bacterium Corynebacterium diphtheria as the outbreak is spreading in the region, the provincial Centre of Diseases Control said on July 12.

Vietnam is to launch a large-scale vaccination campaign against diphtheria, starting on July 9, as the contagious disease is evolving in a complex manner in the Central Highlands, with a total of 65 infections, including three deaths.

The Ministry of Health has asked Central Highlands provinces to take urgent preventive measures against diphtheria after 34 people have tested positive and three have died of the disease there.

Coffee prices in the Central Highlands and the south are predicted to continue to slide downward as prices have fallen globally.

A tree that appeared at the same time as dinosaurs in Southeast Asia is dying under the hand of humans.

Tens of thousands of hectares of natural forests have been devastated just within a short time.

Natural forests have been closed for a few years as per the command from the Prime Minister. However, the forests still continue to disappear.

Pepper prices unexpectedly fluctuated on confusing information, placing difficulties for export.

The Prime Minister’s decision to close natural forests released four years ago has brought initial effects: the forests have been protected and have expanded, though many problems still exist.

If more effective measures aren't taken, elephants will disappear from the Central Highlands' region.

Many locales in the Central Highlands have worked to preserve and keep their tribes’ traditional cultural practices alive, 

Visitors to Da Lat can capture a different Central Highlands city by having an overnight experience at a camp and hunting clouds when admiring the sunrise on the hills at the edge of the city.

Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has asked authorities in the central and Central Highlands regions to take action to deal with the prolonged heat wave, drought and saltwater intrusion.

As we move into the end of May, visitors to Da Lat, a tourist attraction in the Central Highlands region of Vietnam, will have the chance to enjoy cool weather while being immersed among huge clouds.

Many people in the central province of Gia Lai are risking their life digging for wells without proper equipment as drought continues.

A large area of forest at the Ea So Natural Reserve in Dak Lak and Gia Lai provinces have been destroyed by illegal logging activities.

Authorities and farmers in the Central Highlands region are taking measures to cope with severe drought to reduce damages to crops. 

The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) has called on provinces in the south-central coastal and Central Highlands regions to take measures to minimise the impacts of drought on summer-autumn crops.

The central region is at high risk of drought from March to May, the remaining months of this dry season, said Deputy Director of the National Centre for Hydrometeorological Forecasting Vu Duc Long said on March 9.