September 5, 2011
Vietnamese artists are refusing to accept government awards and fighting amongst each other over nominations Late author Son Nam was nominated for this year National Award but his family has withdrawn his name following a lot of controversy concerning the awards. The family of late writer Son Nam just withdrew his name from the [...]
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July 17, 2011
Occupational therapist goes native to help special children in Vietnam Takao Maiko, 27, plays with children at the Daycare class of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center for physical disabled children “Open it, baby,” Takao Maiko tells the seven- year-old polio-stricken boy in slow, but clear Vietnamese. Nothing happens. The little [...]
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July 17, 2011
Expectations that lower global prices would benefit consumers have been belied A worker pumps petrol to a motorcycle at a gas station in Hanoi. Vietnam raised retail fuel prices in late March and has left them unchanged since. When the government decided in March that local petroleum prices will be adjusted in line with [...]
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July 15, 2011
Duong Minh Thao from Dak Lak Province uproots his marijuana plants after learning they are considered an illegal narcotic. Many farmers in rural parts of the Mekong Delta and Central Highlands’ Dak Lak and Dak Nong Provinces have been cultivating marijuana without knowing what it is or that it is illegal in Vietnam.  In early May, Dak Lak police seized [...]
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March 15, 2011
Khai Doan Pagoda was given a reddish-brown color similar to the basalt soil found in the Central Highlands In the heart of Buon Ma Thuot Town stands the Khai Doan Pagoda that boasts a unique feature: a design that is a combination of the Central Highlands long house and palaces of the Hue Royal Court. [...]
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February 25, 2011
A man places stacks of dong and US dollar notes inside a bag at a bank in Ho Chi Minh City. The State Bank of Vietnam devalued the dong by 9.3 percent on February 11 in an effort to minimize the gap between the official and black market exchange rates. Following the move, the dong [...]
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December 15, 2010
An animal health official checks a cow in Quang Ngai Province Many poor households in the central region’s Quang Ngai Province have discovered the cows they were given as poverty support are infected with the foot-and-mouth disease, VnExpress said Monday.  Animal health officials in Tinh Hoa Commune, Son Tinh District have been busy in recent [...]
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November 27, 2010
A scavenger of recyclable items wanders through an industrial zone in central Vietnam. A recent foreign-backed study of Vietnam’s land system found what the people already know: it’s a disaster. A recent study has found that land management corruption has become a “source of social instability” in Vietnam. Experts warn that corruption within Vietnam’s land [...]
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January 23, 2010
A group of six people were caught trying to use counterfeit money in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta province of Dong Thap this week. Ta Van Tu, Nguyen Thi Thang, Nguyen Duc Tinh, Vu Ngoc Hung, Vu Kieu Hau and Nguyen Van Tam, all hailing from the northern province of Vinh Phuc, were all taken in for [...]
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December 19, 2009
A rhinoceros shot dead in Zimbabwe With Vietnamese believing rhino horns have magical medicinal properties and willing to pay big money for them, the giant animal is being driven to extinction. Nguyen Van Lam, a former deputy head of the Government Office, resigned in July 2006 after he was found to have accepted cash as [...]
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