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Aug 06, 2016 / 10:37

Vietnam to build a house displaying Hoang Sa, Truong Sa objects

A meeting to discuss the architecture of the house to display objects related to Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes was held by the People’s Committee of central province of Khanh Hoa on August 2.

 
At the meeting
At the meeting
The provincial People’s Committee said a house to display objects related to Vietnam’s Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes will be constructed at the Nha Trang Institute of Oceanography.
The building with an investment of 50 billion VND will have a total area of 2,000sq.m, and exhibit about 20,000 documents and objects affirming Vietnam’s sovereignty over its sea and islands, especially the two archipelagoes. 
Photo for illustration.
Photo for illustration.
In addition, at the Nha Trang Institute of Oceanography, an area to protect and preserve marine creatures collected from Truong Sa archipelago and other Vietnamese waters will be built in an existing tunnel, which is 80m long, 4.5m wide and 4.5m high. 
The area aims to raise public awareness of the value of marine creature resources and serve research on and preservation of important marine creatures. 
The project to build the house and the marine creature preservation area will be carried out over two years.