> Cambodia, Thailand to meet again on border row

Cambodia and Thailand will hold the second foreign ministers meeting in Bangkok on August 18 to seek a peaceful solution to the military standoff over disputed areas near the 11th century Preah Vihear temple, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on August 6.

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> Border economic zone attracts 16.5 billion USD in investment

Bo Y International Border Gate Economic Zone in Central Highlands Kon Tum province has so far drawn 24 investment projects with a total registered capital of 282 trillion VND (16.5 billion USD), according to the zone’s Management Board.

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> Design contest introduced for Hoan Kiem Lake area

Hanoi authorities have set up a 7-member council to select capable design consulting organisations for a contest named “Ideas for planning and designing the Hoan Kiem Lake area and its surrounding areas”.

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> Preparations for expanded Hanoi

The Hanoi People’s Council convened its 15th session on July 16 before it joins the Ha Tay counterpart to discuss the personnel for expanded Hanoi. The participants adopted a resolution on the city’s 2007 budget balance with earnings reaching 47.98 trillion VND, exceeding the target by 4.99 percent and up 21.8 percent from 2006.

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> Vietnam-Laos border marker planting under discussion

A conference on border marker planting along the Vietnam-Laos border was held in central Quang Tri province on July 16.
The conference held by the National Border Committee under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide guidance on border marker planting in 10 provinces bordering Laos.

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> Vietnam-Cambodia border marked by new marker

Vietnam’s southern Tay Ninh province and Cambodia ’s Kampong Cham province began construction of their shared border marker on July 15. The marker No. 131 was the first to be installed along the two countries’ border this year and the third built in Tay Ninh province.

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> Vietnam, China move to complete border demarcation on schedule

Vietnam and China have agreed to exert more efforts to complete land border demarcation and landmark planting along their common borderline this year as agreed by high-ranking leaders of the two countries.

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> HCM City adjusts its zoning plan

The HCM City People’s Committee has submitted for approval its adjusted master zoning plan to 2025 to the Ministry of Construction.
Under the plan, the city would be expanded to the east and south, with auxiliary development in the north and northwest as well as west and southwest.

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> Hanoi super-city plan to create super-sized administrative headaches?

Critics have been questioning the merits of a plan to expand Hanoi into a mega-city, more than 14 times larger than it is at present, through a merger with surrounding provinces.
Vietnam’s National Assembly is expected to discuss the urban planning draft for Hanoi at the April session but some analysts are saying the capital and the surrounding provinces could lose their unique cultural identities in the proposed merger.

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> A great green giant

Ho Chi Minh City will become the core of an urban zone encompassing seven neighboring provinces, under an expansion blueprint drawn up by the municipal People’s Committee.
Ho Chi Minh City to become Southeast Asia’s green industrial hub, under a master plan recently submitted to the government.

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> Viet Nam, China speed up land border demarcation

Viet Nam and China achieved positive results in classifying and defining the number of landmarks along the Viet Nam-China borderline.

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> Remote sensing centre boosts training and tech transferring

“Boosting training and switching to remote sensing technologies will be a significant step towards turning the Remote Sensing Centre into a hi-tech operation,” Deputy Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Nguyen Van Duc said at a seminar on March 3.

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> Work and land survey company to expand to new fields in 2008

The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (Monre) is aiming to finalize regulations on natural resources and the environment in hopes of setting up major field groups by 2010, said Monres deputy minister Nguyen Van Duc during a recent conference.

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> Viet Nam, Laos to speed up landmark planting

Viet Nam and Laos have agreed to plant 59 out of the total 826 landmarks in their ten couples of bordering provinces within 2008.
The agreement was reached at a meeting between the two countries’ land border committees, which took place in Laos ’s capital city of Vientiane from February 14-17.

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> Viet Nam, Cambodia to upgrade border gate

Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sar Kheng has signed a decision to upgrade border gates in Som Rong in Cambodia ’s Svay Rieng province and My Quy Tay in Viet Nam ’s southern Long An province into international border gates.

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> Maps to aid marine research

Vietnamese scientists have completed a series of maps providing both general and detailed information on the natural environment of Vietnamese coastal areas.
Dr. Bui Cong Que at the Institute of Geophysics said that 70 maps were created using the latest Geographic Information System (GIS).

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> HCM City to make geological map

HCM City Chairman Le Hoang Quan asked relevant State agencies to survey the geological and hydrographic conditions in order to make the city’s geological map for use in managing the construction sector.

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> PM approves projects on survey and map

The Government has approved two projects on survey and map totalling VND552 billion ($45 million).

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> Ministry standardizes international place-names in maps

The Deputy minister of Natural Resources and Environment has signed to issue a list of international place-names to used on all maps after being approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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8. Northwest tourist map
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2. English Globe
3. Ho chi minh cultural -tourist map
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> ArcGis Server

ArcGIS Server is a platform for building enterprise geographic information system (GIS) application that are centrally managed, support multiple users, include advanced GIS functionality, and are built using industry standards. ArcGIS Server manages geographic resources, such as maps, locators, and software objects, for use by applications.

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> GIS PRESERVES FAMILY TIES

While GIS has generally been used to map where things are, there have been some departures from typical applications, such as choosing sites, targeting market segments, planning distribution networks, responding to emergencies, or redrawing boundaries. One unusual implementation of GIS comes from Khatib & Alami, ESRI's distributor in Beirut, Lebanon, where the software technology was used to generate a family tree. A multidisciplinary architectural and engineering consulting company, Khatib & Alami has a corporate commitment to promote, support, and implement GIS technologies in areas and fields of its operation.

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