December 31, 2011
A file photo shows telecommunications equipment confiscated by Vietnamese police in raids of Chinese and Taiwanese gangs in Vietnam. Police in Ho Chi Minh City have arrested one Taiwanese and four Chinese nationals on suspicion that they cheated people in several countries and territories via the Internet and international phone calls. A report on Tuoi Tre [...]
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December 20, 2011
An 82-year-old woman in HCMC promotes artists, advises young documentary filmmakers, and opens foreigners’ eyes to Vietnam ’s millennia-old history and culture Nguyen Thi Xuan Phuong, 82, spends her whole life in introducing Vietnamese heroic history and stunning art Lotus Gallery, located in a modest part of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, has been [...]
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October 31, 2011
An Australian chef in a restaurant in Hanoi Radhakrishnan from Sri Lanka has been a businessman for a long time. Of the several countries where he has worked, he finds it easiest to make money and live comfortably in Vietnam, and this is where he intends to stay. “Compared to my home country, it [...]
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September 19, 2011
Foreign tourists in Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam’s finance ministry is considering a plan to start refunding value-added-tax payments to foreigners in an effort to boost the sale of local goods.  The ministry Friday asked concerned agencies to give their opinions on this issue, news website VnExpress said Monday.  Under the plan, foreigners making purchases at [...]
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September 9, 2011
Soothsaying guide presents the past and foretells the future Tran Thi Dieu, 78, entertains a foreign tourist thanks to her fluent English and fortune-telling skills. Thuy Thanh Commune boasts an impressive tile-roofed bridge that is such an integral and central part of it that the village itself is now called the Thanh Toan Tile [...]
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September 4, 2011
Traditional houses hundreds of years old that stand among picturesque fruit and flower gardens are a striking feature of Tien Giang Province’s Cai Be District. But there is another striking aspect about these homes that has been a recent development. They do not welcome Vietnamese tourists. Starting this August, travel agents’ offices at Cai [...]
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August 27, 2011
Guenter Giesenfeld and Marianne Ngo, who won a notable award in Germany this year for their translation of a short story collection by Vietnamese author Le Minh Khue I first met Professor Guenter Giesenfeld at an international conference on promoting Vietnamese literature more than a year ago. Our paths crossed again after Le Minh [...]
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July 9, 2011
Chinese workers at a construction site in the northern province of Ninh Binh. Thousands of unlicensed Chinese laborers are depriving Vietnamese workers of many job opportunities, officials say. A new decree will take effect on August 1 tightening rules on foreigners hired to work on Vietnamese government projects, according to the Ministry of Labor, War [...]
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July 2, 2011
Free course seeks to awaken, nurture passion for traditional Vietnamese music Tuyet Mai says was happily surprised and greatly saddened at the same time. “Many foreigners who have come to my house to watch our shows have surprised me with their profound knowledge of Vietnamese folk music and musical instruments,” Mai told Thanh Nien [...]
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May 11, 2011
A parent brought his two test-tube baby girls to the 14th founding anniversary of the in vitro fertilization unit at Tu Du Hospital on April 24. A childless couple is something that’s not easily accepted in Vietnam’s conservative society. Infertility puts a lot of pressure on Vietnamese women and affects the quality of their marriages. [...]
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