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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October 11, 2011
 Nguyen Thi Lanh, 106, and her youngest daughter, 71, from HCMC’s District 12. She and her husband, Huynh Van Lac, 110, have been certified by Vietnam Records Book as the country’s oldest couple. Huynh Thi Hoa, 71, says that ever since her parents reached the age of 90, during every Tet Festival their home [...]
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September 4, 2011
Quiet 18-year-old youth confesses to killing three members of a family in failed gold heist Le Van Luyen (C), 18, is arrested on Wednesday (August 31) in the northern province of Lang Son for allegedly murdering three people at a Bac Giang gold shop on August 24 An 18-year-old youth, described as a quiet [...]
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August 28, 2011
11-year-old Pham Thanh Ngoc gets her math homework checked by a local math teacher. The girl recently applied for a public high school Pham Thanh Ngoc did not drop out of school. She just refused to go to school, from kindergarten onward. However, Ngoc’s reluctance to attend school was not of the usual variety. It [...]
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February 23, 2011
American connects with Vietnamese anti-war songs and reconnects two icons Molly Hartman O’Connell performs Vietnam’s red songs in Con duong am nhac (Musical road) program on Ho Chi Minh City Television “Mother of Vietnam, do you know your children have begun the fight?” This was the only part of the song, the chorus, that [...]
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January 2, 2010
Pressure to perform well at school tops the list of grouses Vietnamese children have against their parents, a national writing contest has managed to find out. Student at an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8.“Dear Mom and Dad, I want to say â¦,” launched by Hanoi-based book distributor Thai Ha, received nearly [...]
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January 2, 2010
Student at an elementary school in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 8. Pressure to perform well at school tops the list of grouses Vietnamese children have against their parents, a national writing contest has managed to find out. âDear Mom and Dad, I want to say â¦,â launched by Hanoi-based book distributor Thai Ha, received [...]
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December 5, 2009
After losing her ability to talk, Le Thi Thu Xuong remained strong and worked hard to become a teacher for deaf students. Le Thi Thu Xuong (second) left) teaches sign language at the club.LookAtVietnam – After losing her ability to talk, Le Thi Thu Xuong remained strong and worked hard to become a teacher for [...]
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November 3, 2009
Vietnam and Denmark on November 2 signed a memorandum of understanding on cultural cooperation during the 2009-2014 period. Parents spend time playing with children during a Family Day Festival at HCM City. Psychologists have noted that teenagers who feel isolated or depressed can resort to self-harm.Cutting wrists to combat depression has become a growing habit [...]
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November 3, 2009
“I used to cut my wrists whenever I was sad. I felt no pain. Only blood. It made me feel comfortable. Whenever I did it, my sadness would go away . . .” Parents spend time playing with children during a Family Day Festival at HCM City. Psychologists have noted that teenagers who feel isolated [...]
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