October 30, 2011
Actress Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc in Canh dong bat tan (Floating Lives) Vietnamese actress Ninh Duong Lan Ngoc has won the Favorite International Actress award at the China Golden Rooster Awards 2011 held Oct 18-23, for her role in Canh dong bat tan (Floating Lives). Director Nguyen Huu Phan was quoted by the Vietnamplus newswire [...]
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October 15, 2011
A scene from Canh dong bat tan (Floating lives), a box-office hit adaptation of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s 2005 sensational short novel of the same name. ‘Floating lives’ was short-listed but not selected to represent Vietnam at next year’s Oscars. As the National Film Selection Committee was debating which of its three candidates – Canh [...]
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June 1, 2011
Forty-year-old Chinese Guo Liangcai lost his wife, children, two siblings and friends in a boat accident last Friday in the southern province of Binh Duong. Guo Liangcai’s voice never stopped quavering. “I don’t know how I will handle the truth,” he told Thanh Nien Weekly over the phone last Tuesday. The 40-year-old Chinese businessman spoke [...]
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May 27, 2011
The boat, which sank in the southern province of Binh Duong last Friday, killing 16, floats on the Saigon River after being recovered Saturday. A meeting was held in the southern province of Binh Duong Wednesday to review a tourist boat accident that killed 16 people last week, but no agency has accepted responsibility. Â [...]
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January 15, 2011
 Floating garden linking Saigon River and Thu Thiem project by French architect Olivier Souquet Oliver Souquet has had the rare pleasure of bringing gardens to Vietnam. The Frenchman won his government’s inaugural Young Architect Portrait in 2002 and has been helping several Vietnamese organizations with architectural design and landscaping. Olivier is a co-director of [...]
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January 25, 2010
A boat full of pineapples is unloaded onto a house in a floating village near Chau Doc, An Giang Province. An Giang Provinceâs bustling border town showcases the diversity of the Mekong Delta: Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer and Cham cultures all in one. From the top of Sam Mountain, you can see the whole of Chau [...]
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January 25, 2010
LookAtVietnam – An Giang Province’s bustling border town showcases the diversity of the Mekong Delta: Vietnamese, Chinese, Khmer and Cham cultures all in one. From the top of Sam Mountain, you can see the whole of Chau Doc Town and Tinh Bien District, and even all the way to the That Son (Seven Mountains) range in [...]
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November 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A new decree on oil and petrol trade management will take effect next month amid debates whether it is a good time to float petrol prices. Decree 84/2009/ND-CP, released on October 15, 2009 to replace Decree 55/2007/ND-CP, stipulates that petrol prices will follow market fluctuations, with government intervention only in special circumstances. Petrol [...]
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November 4, 2009
In the high-tide season, a lot of people flock to the Mekong Delta not only to drift on the swollen rivers but to know more of people in the Delta. Foreign tourists on a boat trip to the Cai Rang floating river in Can Tho City.Not boasting clear, blue water, the rivers of the Mekong [...]
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October 15, 2009
When the conversation is about the Mekong Delta, people immediately think of tropical rivers, interlacing canals, immense rice fields and the floating homes A view of the raft village in Chau Doc town, An Giang province.Lazing on a small sampan, tourists can feel they are so tiny on the boundless river and under the shade [...]
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