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LookAtVietnam - The 12th century art of stylised musical theatre has been faithfully performed by one local family for generations, travelling to places as far flung as the United States.
Spectators enjoy a classical drama troupe’s performance on a river in the Can Gio District of Ho Chi Minh City; Actor Vu Linh Tam and actress Yen Linh perform an extract...
LookAtVietnam - Preservation work in the capital’s oldest section is often held up by obstacles like red tape and lack of funds, leaving residents trapped in century-old buildings falling into ruin.
An overview of the Returned Sword Lake and its surrounding areas.LookAtVietnam - Preservation work in the capital’s oldest section is often held up by...
At the Soc Son Wildlife Rescue Centre, even when a parrot dies, a council is set up to inspect the death before it is buried. The centre’s director and staff also “get sick” when a tiger gets sick.
This tiger got sick last year. From a sick tiger We paid a visit to the Soc Son Wildlife Rescue Centre on a drizzly day. When we arrived,...
Farmer-puppeteer Dao Minh Tuan.LookAtVietnam - Farmers in Vinh Bao District, Hai Phong, are earning their living through preserving water puppetry. Being called while transplanting rice seedlings, Mr. Thieu and several farmers hurriedly stopped the farm work to wash their hands and flock to the pond at the village’s communal house to perform water puppetry,...
Reserving the best room in his house to display his old motorbikes, placing the old motorbikes on high pedestals and silk is the way a Hanoi man shows his passion and admiration for old motorbikes. Is there another like him?
The collector of old vehicles.LookAtVietnam - Reserving the best room in his house to display his old motorbikes and bicycles, placing the...
Xam singer, artisan Ha Thi Cau.LookAtVietnam - There is a hat xam founding anniversary in Hanoi today, which is awakening understanding about this unique job. Professionalism Xam is a genre of folk songs in northern Vietnam. Xam is also a word used to call blind people who sing xam songs to earn money so hat xam is considered a job. Many equate...
Elisabeth Persson and blind students in the pottery class.LookAtVietnam - Thanh showed me two terra-cotta statues named “Self-portrait”. It is strange that the two statues look exactly like the face of the boy who created them – a boy who has never seen his face nor will ever see his statues. I met this “sculptor” at a special...
VietNamNet Bridge – Under the sleeve of Ngoc Anh’s uniform is a long scar courtesy of a burglar. The woman who is called “American policewoman” disguises herself when she returns home from the office at night to avoid criminals seeking revenge.
Ngoc Anh and her husband. Of over 30 girls who have worked for the Long Hai guard company,...
The Quan Thang San signboard of over 200 years old.LookAtVietnam - It is not commonly known that the history of signboards of shops in Hoi An, Quang Nam province, is the history of the development of this ancient city. There is nowhere like in this city where the past, the present and the future are as connected to business and nowhere like in Hoi An where...
Rural villagers are raising their families’ incomes by cultivating wild vegetables and rice in local forests to sell at the market.
Young people in mountainous Ha Hieu Village harvest don, a type of wild forest vegetable. LookAtVietnam - Rural villagers are raising their families’ incomes by cultivating wild vegetables and rice in local forests to...
