January 12, 2012
UXOs found in Quang Tri Province in north-central Vietnam More than one fifth of Vietnam’s total area is contaminated with unexploded ordnance (UXO) and it woud take 300 years to complete decontamination at the current pace, an official said.  However, concerned authorities are looking to reduce the period to 100 years, said major general Pham Quang [...]
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November 22, 2011
Japanese experts check Thu Thiem Tunnel before it was officially open to traffic under the Saigon River on Sunday  The longest cross-river tunnel in southeast Asia, Thu Thiem, was opened to traffic across the Saigon River in southern Vietnam on Sunday. A big ceremony with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which has invested in the project [...]
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August 9, 2011
50 years after the US began spraying Agent Orange over Vietnam and 36 years after the end of the war, victims suffer as realpolitik considerations offer faint glimmers of hope Teacher Nguyen Ngoc Phuong (C), 31, an Agent Orange victim, walks among other victims during a lesson at a hospice in Vietnam’s Da Nang [...]
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September 26, 2009
Thousands of readers have commented on VietNamNet’s recent reports on a huge coal mining project under consideration for development in the Red River Delta. A coal mining site in Quang Ninh province.LookAtVietnam – Thousands of readers have commented on VietNamNet’s recent reports on a huge coal mining project under consideration for development in the Red [...]
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August 18, 2009
A group of elderly people in Bac Giang keep the art of quan ho alive Young at heart: A group of elderly in Bac Giang province still love to sing quan ho melodies.With a snow-white head of hair, he is typically like any other old man of his age. But when he wears the khan [...]
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August 12, 2009
Chau Dinh Khoa plays the dan ty ba at his 100th birthday party A centenarian musician longs to teach the next generation the secrets of the Vietnamese pipa. After 100 years, Chau Dinh Khoa is no less dedicated to the love of his life: the dan ty ba.He still plays the same ty ba, a [...]
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March 8, 2009
One local artisan has turned the chance sale of a nearly century-old fan into a career of collecting and restoring antique fans from all over the world. Tran Cong Phuc restores a unique fan. LookAtVietnam – One local artisan has turned the chance sale of a nearly century-old fan into a career of collecting and [...]
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