Posts Tagged ‘ Brown ’

Cut insecticide abuse to support rice industry 

January 11, 2012
Cut insecticide abuse to support rice industry 

  Many rice farmers work under the mistaken impression that regular insecticide applications are necessary to attain high yields. However, decades of research by scientists around the world has shown that healthy and productive rice crops can be produced with little or no insecticide applications in most years. Nonetheless, farmers continue to apply dangerous chemicals [...]

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Ha Long Bay boats to be painted white to revive image 

January 9, 2012
Ha Long Bay boats to be painted white to revive image 

  Authorities in the northern province of Quang Ninh have asked that Ha Long Bay boats be painted white, saying the change befits the bay’s recent international recognition. A report Friday in VnExpress said, under the decision issued on Thursday by Quang Ninh’s People’s Committee, all tourist boats, except dragon boats, will be white with brown sails. [...]

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Miracle beans 

December 19, 2011
Miracle beans 

  Soy, green, black, and red beans on display at a shop selling home-made bột ngÅ© cốc – a mixture powder of black sesame and four different types of beans – on Cach Mang Thang Tam Street, District 10, Ho Chi Minh City My husband has always been thin. But a few months ago it [...]

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Open to question 

December 12, 2011
Open to question 

  A panoramic view of Quang Ninh Province’s Ha Long Bay. Experts have called for improved services and preservation work as the UNESCO World Heritage Site gains further recognition as a natural wonder. A hike in admission fees for the Ha Long Bay, Vietnam’s foremost tourism site, has drawn a lot of flak, particularly over [...]

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Soup and porridge for a cold 

August 20, 2011
Soup and porridge for a cold 

Ginger and spring onion porridge is good for sweating, coughing and a runny nose. Certain types of soup and porridge are important in Oriental medicine for treating chronic ailments. They help the sick recuperate and improve the effectiveness of medical treatment. More generally, they ward off disease, improve longevity and alleviate coughing and fever in [...]

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Paying it forward 

November 27, 2010
Paying it forward 

Students from Carlton Brown play with disabled children in Da Nang City Rachel Leanne Boys, 24, an Australian childcare student, intends to stay in Vietnam after two weeks of her internship at Da Nang City’s charity school and care facility. “The feeling I get when the children greet me and give me their first morning [...]

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Korean hot shots keep their cool

November 3, 2009
Korean hot shots keep their cool

Idol star Kim Joon made desperate female fans try to cross the barriers just to have closer contact with him Reporters and fans were a trifle miffed by the glacial attitude of the Brown Eyed Girls and other Kpop stars when they flew in to Ho Chi Minh City an hour late last Saturday. “Look, [...]

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US veteran teaches Vietnamese

October 7, 2009
US veteran teaches Vietnamese

LookAtVietnam – “Hello everybody. My name is Bud Brown and I speak a little Vietnamese. In 1972, I was in Viet Nam. I like the Vietnamese people very much Good morning, Vietnam: Bud Brown, who made Vietnamese language clips in the car while waiting for his wife to shop and posted them on YouTube.This was [...]

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Compensation sought for farmers who lost rice crops

September 25, 2009
Compensation sought for farmers who lost rice crops

LookAtVietnam – Farmers in northern and northern central provinces, especially Nghe An, could get about VND4 million compensation for every hectare of rice destroyed The Southern Plant Protection Centre warned the diseases could break out in next year’s summer-autumn crop if brown hoppers kept threatening the winter-spring crop.The Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, [...]

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Israeli prime minister Netanyahu meets Brown

August 26, 2009
Israeli prime minister Netanyahu meets Brown

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with his British counterpart Gordon Brown on Tuesday afternoon at the Downing street No. 10. Visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) meets with his British counterpart Gordon Brown at 10 Downing street in London, capital of Britain, on Aug. 25, 2009. (Xinhua/Zeng Yi)Netanyahu arrived in London on Monday [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...