August 7, 2011
Leslie Wiener with disadvantaged and HIV positive children from Smile Group After three decades of working in film and television in two of the most exciting cities in the world, Leslie Wiener came to Vietnam and decided to stay. What made her change direction and decide to stay in Ho Chi Minh City, where [...]
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July 23, 2011
Two policemen are classifying the seized pirated CDs. At the same time, the recording officials said they are fed up with government-issued authenticity stamps which have done little more than proving a financial and logistical burden. Prominent members of Vietnam’s recording businesses are requesting permission to issue their own authenticity stamps. The recording officials say [...]
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July 16, 2011
Vigilante mobs in northern Vietnam are beating and murdering men who attempt to profit by kidnapping their dogs and selling them to butchers. The charred remains of a motorbike that belonged to a slain dog thief in Nghe An Province. Rampant dog theft has lead to widespread vigilante justice in the north-central province. Nguyen [...]
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July 4, 2011
Two of the three Chinese patrol boats that damaged cables of Vietnam's Binh Minh 02 on May 26, 2011. The Global Times – a daily Chinese tabloid produced under the auspices of the official Chinese Communist Party newspaper, the People’s Daily – on June 11 published an editorial distorting information about the East Sea disputes [...]
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May 31, 2011
This photo shows a part of the Truong Sa (Spratly) District in Truong Sa archipelago. On March 23, 2011, Xinhua, the official news agency of China, published an article titled "The Nanhai sea dispute from the perspective of the international law of the sea" by scholars He Jian and Wang Ao from the Xiang Tan [...]
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May 25, 2011
Foreign shipping lines have imposed unreasonable surcharges on local customers, a report said. Foreign shipping lines have taken advantage of Vietnam’s underdeveloped transportation industry to impose unreasonable surcharges on local customers, a transport ministry report said. The Ministry of Transport discovered at least 10 irrational fees that foreign shipping lines had collected, including “congestion,” “container imbalance” [...]
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May 2, 2011
Experts say more must be done to ensure the safety and welfare of local women looking to marry abroad An illegal marriage broker bust conducted by Ho Chi Minh City police. Many Vietnamese women are entering risky marriages brokered by illegal services for financial reasons. Last week, Qi Shui Hua, 38, walked into an [...]
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January 4, 2010
International donors have committed a record figure of official assistance development (ODA) for Vietnam in 2010 – US$8 billion. PM Nguyen Tan Dung and the two co-chair people of the Consultative Group Meeting 2009, the Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc and the WB’s Director in Vietnam Victoria Kwakwa. Development aid increases Japan and UK [...]
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December 13, 2009
A still from the sexually-explomatory Choi voi (Adrift) Critics say that the choices for best film at Vietnamâs premier festival mean that the industry is either making a clean break with its past, or possibly reverting back to old themes. Top honors at the 16th Vietnam Film Festival will go to either the newest Vietnam [...]
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December 4, 2009
Thousands of people took a day off from work on December 1 to buy train tickets through text messages for the lunar New Year 2010, which will fall in early February. Though the Saigon Railway Station began selling the tickets by SMS at 8:30am, hundreds had arrived at the station by 5am all set to [...]
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