January 2, 2012
Hotels in Vietnam trade on the past to further their 21st century ambitions Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, which hosted well-known novelists such as Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, is famous with classic French architecture After the sun sinks among the limestone karsts of Ha Long Bay, the stars come out, to pepper the [...]
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December 23, 2011
The Saigon Post Office in the early-20th century ⦠and the Ho Chi Minh City’s General Post Office at present In Ho Chi Minh City, two iconic buildings that are tourist attractions as much for their architecture as their history are the Notre Dame Cathedral and General Post Office situated next to each other [...]
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December 20, 2011
An 82-year-old woman in HCMC promotes artists, advises young documentary filmmakers, and opens foreigners’ eyes to Vietnam ’s millennia-old history and culture Nguyen Thi Xuan Phuong, 82, spends her whole life in introducing Vietnamese heroic history and stunning art Lotus Gallery, located in a modest part of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, has been [...]
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October 26, 2011
Passengers board a Boeing 787 Dreamliner operated by All Nippon Airways at Narita Airport, Japan prior to its flight to Hong Kong. Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner made its first commercial flight on Wednesday, giving a handful of deep-pocketed passengers the chance to fly into history on what is touted as an aviation breakthrough. Carrying 252 [...]
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June 4, 2011
The building was unique, and it opened to befitting fanfare on a very special occasion – the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long – Hanoi. Easily the largest museum in Vietnam, the four-storey reverse pyramid shaped building was received with appropriate “oohs” and “aahs.” Thousand of people gathered to celebrate the inauguration of the building, [...]
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November 20, 2010
A scene of the 12-episode series Ly Cong Uan – Duong toi thanh Thang Long. The film is blasted as a “Chinese film in Vietnamese.” It’s not rare for Hollywood to produce films that feature the history and culture of a country with racially mixed casts. A film about Russia is in English. Actors and [...]
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November 14, 2010
 Nong, a government employee pictured with the children of Kengkup village, Sepone District, Savhanakhet Province. Nong said four children were recently killed in the village while out playing with an unexploded sub-munitions dropped by American planes during the “secret” bombing campaign over Laos. The first use of cluster munitions reportedly occurred when a World [...]
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November 13, 2010
A group of deportees still wearing their concentration camp uniforms are greeted by locals on their arrival back in Paris in 1945 after being liberated by Allied forces in Germany. France’s state-owned rail company SNCF has expressed remorse for hauling thousands of Jews to their deaths in Nazi camps, after US lawmakers threatened its chances [...]
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January 31, 2010
Thereâs no better place to let the time roll away than on the waterfront Hoan Kiem Lake, which is the heart and soul of Hanoi, means “Lake of the Returned Sword”, in reference to the legend surrounding fifteenth century Vietnamese hero General Le LoiHanoiâs 20 lakes are renowned for bringing the city a sense of [...]
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January 29, 2010
LookAtVietnam – In the latest in our “Discover our Vietnamese Congressmen” series, VietNamNet talked with congress deputy Duong Trung Quoc, who is also a historian. Insider view of National Assembly Duong Trung Quoc was born on June 2 1947 in Ben Tre province. He graduated from the History Faculty of the Hanoi University in 1968. He worked [...]
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