The Kikuyu, who refer to the mountain as Kirinyaga, or Kere-Nyaga ("Mountain of Whiteness"), traditionally revere it as home to their omnipotent deity Ngai.
The Vietnamese government is beginning to worry that diversification may have gone too far, with many rice growers in the Mekong Delta having switched to shrimp farming.In Ba village, in the central province of Quang Ngai, Bach Ngoc Re, a 61-year-old farmer, is more than happy to go on growing rice on the two small plots that he and his wife were given in the land redistribution.
Quang Ngai is a three-hour drive from the nearest airport along a dangerous single-lane highway.
In rural Quang Ngai province the authorities are seeking hoteliers to develop its golden, palm-fringed and empty beaches, and dream of building spa resorts around the hot-water springs that bubble up through the province's rice paddies.
Visiting Quang Ngai, a quiet town set among rice paddies, your correspondent was startled by a snappily dressed young Vietnamese couple flashing down the main street in an open-topped red Ford Mustang.
Exiled dissidents are often pessimists, but Ngai Nguyen, the DPV's spokesman in America, sees some hopeful signs.
A wish to develop poorer provinces has led to some questionable choices: Vietnam's only oil refinery, for example, is in central Quang Ngai, far from either oil wells or industrial cities.The government, too, needs to give up on short-term fixes.
Ruins of the Cham (Champa) kingdom are found at Chau Sa, 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Quang Ngai, and 2 miles (3 km) south, where the remains of the Chanh Lo temple are located.
Schell followed that indictment with another volume critical of the Vietnam War The Military Half: An Account of Destruction in Quang Ngai and Quang Tin (1968).
Quang Ngai, city, central Vietnam, on the South China Sea coast.
1918 Quang Ngai, Vietnam April 20 , 1996Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Tran Van Tra, (born 1918 Quang Ngai province, Vietnam, 1918 died April 20 , 1996 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Vietnamese general who, proved to be an able commander in the Vietnam War by leading communist raids on Saigon both during the Tet offensive of 1968 and during the city's capture in 1975.
