January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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November 7, 2011
Retired stage artists are happy to be among their own in the autumn of their lives Then and now: Doan Thien Kim with a photograph taken during her heydays as a cai luong artist in HCMC several decades ago Former cai luong (reformed theater) artist Doan Thien Kim, 77, looks sad whenever she receives [...]
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January 31, 2010
A customer looks at products in the Catherine Denoual Maison Catherine Denoual moved from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, without any plans or expectations, but sheâs since absorbed the burgeoning metropolisâ energy of growth and renewal like a sponge. Her husband found work here in 1995, and at the age [...]
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September 13, 2009
Beauty queen Vu Hoang Diep and her boyfriend Huynh Van Xuan make a beautiful love story like a fairy tale From a poor girl selling noodles in a village to a beauty queen who meets her prince charming, Vu Hoang Diepâs life couldnât have been more like a fairy tale. Pham Thi Nhi raised her [...]
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June 29, 2009
While many parents send their children to extra classes during the summer holiday, others send their children to the countryside, where they believe the children can have a good time and return to school fresh and full of energy. Children in Hai Luu, Lap Thach district in Vinh Phuc province are fishing for small fish [...]
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March 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Seventy-five-year-old Nguyen Dong Thieu of Ha Noi’s Hai Ba Trung District says he is choosing to live in a nursing home because he has been very lonely at home alone since his wife died two years ago. The good life: On-the-spot medical care is given to the elderly at the Tu Liem Nursing [...]
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February 19, 2009
A South Korean court refuses to consider a biological motherâs claim that she was duped into surrogacy. The denial of custody to a Vietnamese mother over her biological children by a South Korean court has been greeted with indignation and anger.The case highlights the many problems arising out of commercially arranged marriages between Vietnamese women, [...]
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February 14, 2009
A woman selling lottery tickets by the Dien Bien Phu Bridge was once a traveling cai luong singer. Tu walks the streets selling lottery tickets, desperate to pay back a VND1 million (US$58) debt.She incurred the debt when she was robbed of 200 tickets she had taken on credit.But she only makes some VND40,000 ($2.30) [...]
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