January 16, 2012
The large rotted tree which fell on a tent where students of Nguyen Dinh Chieu High School were camping in Tien Giang Province on Saturday. Nine high school students were injured Saturday after a tree fell on a tent where they were camping in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, Nguoi Lao Dong newspaper [...]
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December 12, 2011
More than 200,000 students quit school every year, threatening dire consequences for Vietnam’s human-resource base Two shoeshine boys in downtown Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Thanh San had to quit secondary school and move to Ho Chi Minh City two years ago to wash dishes at his aunt’s eatery to earn money and support [...]
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December 5, 2011
Tran Hoang An, 18, pictured in the hospital on May 31, 2011. Ho Chi Minh City prosecutors Thursday filed charges against a supermarket security guard for beating up a high-school student seven months ago. Phan Ba Dung, 23, has been indicted for "intentionally causing bodily harm" to 18-year-old Tran Hoang An of Nam Ky Khoi [...]
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November 16, 2011
American student’s singing ambitions rekindled by the sound of Vietnamese Singing and teaching in Vietnam has not made Kyle Cochran (aka Kyo York) rich, but his life is better than ever. Photo courtesy of Kyo York When he first set foot in the Mekong Delta as a volunteer to teach English under a Princeton [...]
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October 23, 2011
A classic comedy sets the stage for realizing theatrical dreams for a couple of expats A scene in the dress rehearsal of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest.’ Critics said that Vietnamese up-and-coming Lan Phuong (in red) has fulfilled her role with good acting and English-speaking skills. “When one is in town one amuses oneself. [...]
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October 15, 2011
Photo by Priscilla Aquila. The Japanese Festival 2011, celebrated on Oct 16 in Hanoi, will include debates and art performances by high school and university students. The Japanese Cultural Exchange Center in Vietnam (The Japan Foundation), which organizes the festival, said it would have two parts – a debating contest in Japanese and performances by [...]
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October 8, 2011
Anyone who cares about Vietnamese education must have been shocked by recent media reports about the quality and quantity of students who passed entrance exams at specialized universities that train future high school teachers. The number of students applying to these universities has decreased dramatically compared to previous years. Many universities are even at [...]
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September 1, 2011
A commune Party deputy chief in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang has been dismissed from his post for beating up a woman after failing to seduce her, newswire VnExpress reported. Tran Van Tuong, deputy secretary of Cam Son Commune Party Committee, Cai Lay District, was also accused of using a fake high [...]
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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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July 22, 2011
Fake driver licenses seized from a ring in southern Vietnam. Police in the Mekong Delta’s Can Tho Province have proposed that criminal charges be filed against six people for running a racket that sold more than 1,000 fake driver licenses.  The operation was discovered in October last year when a resident exposed 44-year-old Ngo Van Ho. [...]
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