January 14, 2012
 Director Le Hoang (L). His latest sleazy movie, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), revolves around a straightforward question that satirizes materialistic relationships: how much does it cost to sleep with you? Le Hoang’s latest soft-porn flick, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), just like his earlier ones, are less “cheap” than many people [...]
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December 31, 2011
White H’mong girls In the high mountains of northern Vietnam, the H’mong are all set to celebrate their New Year next week. Vietnam’s eighth largest ethnic group is renowned for its colorful clothes and the New Year is an occasion for flaunting them. For the H’mong, in fact, clothes do make the man – [...]
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December 9, 2011
A scene from a video showing a boy kicking at the face of a tiger through the cage at a Hanoi zoo. Two boys have irritated tigers at a Hanoi zoo without any intervention from the guards or adult visitors. Â A video more than one minute long posted on the Internet on December 5 [...]
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November 23, 2011
Film on gay men shows director approaching realism with confidence Hotboy noi loan va cau chuyen ve thang Cuoi, co gai diem va con vit (Lost Paradise), which is playing in theaters now, is Vu Ngoc Dang’s latest effort to make a serious movie that sells. The movie has taken part in several international [...]
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October 31, 2011
 Indian Sikh devotees pay their respects during Diwali at the Sikh Shrine the Golden Temple in Amritsar on October 26, 2011. As the global population hits seven billion, experts are warning that skewed gender ratios could fuel the emergence of volatile "bachelor nations" driven by an aggressive competition for brides. Many demographers believe the [...]
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October 21, 2011
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia. At some point this month, October 2011, a child will be born and the world’s population will have reached seven billion. There is a good chance that this childbirth will take place in the Asia-Pacific region; home to 61 percent of the world’s population. If the child is born in the [...]
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September 11, 2011
One mother always makes the Mid-Autumn festival specialties herself – and revels in the experience “What kind of lantern will your mother buy for you?” “An electric one, I guess. The candle-lit one could be dangerous. The paper could catch fire. What about you?” “I would also like an electric one, but I don’t [...]
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July 16, 2011
Paddy fields in the Mai Chau Valley in the northern province of Hoa Binh There is arguably no other place in Vietnam that enchants visitors as much as the northwestern region. And the place that leaves the highest number of indelible impressions on the mind is the Mai Chau Town in Hoa Binh Province, [...]
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June 26, 2011
The four defendants during the first trial on March 29, 2011. The Vietnamese supreme court Wednesday increased jail terms for two women and a man found guilty of illegally providing marriage brokering services for Chinese men when the case was considered on appeal. Trinh Thi Thu, 52, got eight years instead of the six years [...]
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May 4, 2011
An Afghan mother, who lost relatives in Afghanistan’s wars is pictured in 2010 cradling a child at a mass grave on the outskirts of Kabul. Afghanistan is the worst place in the world to be a mother and Norway is the best, an annual report released Tuesday said. “Afghanistan has the highest lifetime risk of [...]
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