SPECIAL REPORTS
Saturday ,Jan 23,2010, Posted at 11:12 (GMT+7)
SGGP reporters recently left bustling Ho Chi Minh City for Bao Loc – a town in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong – for a visit to Bat Nha monastery.
Friday ,Jan 08,2010, Posted at 15:37 (GMT+7)
In recent years, locals in central Binh Dinh Province’s Hoai An District lamented the drop in the number of do bau (aquilara crassna) trees producing valuable agarwood. But now, thanks to innovative new technology, do bau growers say business is thriving.
Wednesday,Dec 16,2009, Posted at 16:25 (GMT+7)

Many people are familiar with the east Truong Son trail (also known as the Ho Chi Minh trail), however not many people know about its western counterpart located mainly in Laos. Sai Gon Giai Phong reporters recently set out to unearth the secrets of the strategic, yet little-known wartime passageway.

Monday ,Sep 14,2009, Posted at 18:31 (GMT+7)
Due to a recent case in which a tiger in Dai Nam tourism park, Binh Duong Province, attacked and killed a zoo worker on September 13, SGGP reporters visited tiger breeding sites in the province to investigate conditions.
Wednesday,Sep 02,2009, Posted at 15:21 (GMT+7)
After the country achieved unification in 1975, My Khanh B, the poorest hamlet in Cu Chi District, HCM City, has risen from a war- stricken area, whose residents were mostly dependent on smuggling for their livelihoods, to one of Cu Chi’s cultural hamlets. SGGP went to visit a place where residents are now mostly well educated and have urbane lifestyles to discover how they were able to change.
Tuesday ,Sep 01,2009, Posted at 16:01 (GMT+7)
For six years now, farmers in Tich Thien Commune, Tra On District, Vinh Long Province, have won many prizes for their rambutans at annual fruit contests. Being proud of their fruit’s reputation, local farmers are hoping that their produce will find well-deserved places in supermarkets, available for all interested consumers nationwide.

Tuesday ,Aug 25,2009, Posted at 16:01 (GMT+7)
The main task of tree surgeons from the City’s Tree Rescue Team forces them to climb high trees every day. Although working hard and facing danger, they are relaxed and optimistic and recognize themselves as people who ‘eat on the ground but talk and work in the heavens.’