December 31, 2011
A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]
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December 19, 2011
Mysterious motorbike fires, explosion draw attention to the lack of qualified mechanics and potentially dangerous modifications Wreckage of a motorbike that caught fire on December 12 in Hanoi Five-year-old Nguyen Khanh Van died on Tuesday (December 13), becoming the latest victim of a series of unexplained motorbike accidents where the vehicles have caught fire, [...]
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December 15, 2011
Nguyen Khanh Van, 4, succumbs to multiple injuries in a bike explosion in the northern province of Bac Ninh Tuesday. The four-year-old girl who was critically injured in the explosion of a motorbike in the northern province of Bac Ninh died Tuesday, Dan Tri quoted the Hanoi-based National Institute of Burns as saying. Nguyen Khanh [...]
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December 9, 2011
A bike on fire after an explosion on December 1 that killed a woman and injured a child in the northern province of Bac Ninh. No traces of explosives were found in the motorbike explosion that killed a pregnant woman and critically injured her daughter in northern Vietnam last week, a news website quoted a local official [...]
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July 7, 2011
Government and cultural officials from the northern province of Bac Ninh began inspecting a historic relic being threatened by illegal sand dredging at a nearby river. Â Officials from the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the province cultural inspectors on Monday confirmed that the national relic of Mieu and Phan Dong Temples [...]
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July 5, 2011
Phan Dong Temple in Quang Ninh Province. The temple is part of a national relic that sand dredging has been pushing to the Nhu Nguyet river. Illegal sand dredging has been pushing a national historic site in northern Vietnam to the edge of a local river while the authorities either ignorant or unwilling to do [...]
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April 9, 2011
Two more Vietnamese traditions are vying for recognition as UNESCO world heritages. On March 31, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism submitted files on don ca tai tu (southern amateur music) and Hung Kings Temple Festival to UNESCO for consideration as intangible cultural heritages. Don ca tai tu is folk music which originated [...]
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November 20, 2010
The artists perform a feast to soldiers after the victory over Yin invaders at Thanh Giong Festival The United Nations Education Scientific Cultural Organization recently recognized one of Vietnam’s oldest festivals as a World Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Giong Festival was among 45 items (in 29 countries) to receive the honorific at a ceremony held [...]
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February 5, 2010
VietNamNet’s Bui Dung reviews achievements in the showbiz world of Vietnam last year. After Hue royal court music and the cultural space of Central Highlands gong, Quan ho Bac Ninh (Bac Ninh love duets) and Ca tru (ceremonial songs) were recognized by UNESCO as the intangible cultural heritage of mankind in September 2009. Quan ho Bac [...]
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January 23, 2010
A makeshift wholesale market on the outskirts of Hanoi is the place to go for cheap ceramics, unless it’s the week before Tet. The pottery market trades wares from the main traditional pottery villages in northern Vietnam Leaving behind the noisy streets of Hanoi capital city, I drive down a dusty road alongside the Red [...]
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