January 22, 2012
Hoang Thi Tien at a police station. She has been charged with murder after allegedly poisoning her husband and two friends with "heartbreak grass". Police in the northeastern province of Ha Giang on Friday pressed murder charges against a woman who allegedly fatally poisoned her husband and his two friends with a toxic shrub known as [...]
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January 19, 2012
Hoang Xuan Vinh has become the first ever Vietnamese shooter to win an official Olympics berth. Vinh won 682.4 points in the men’s 10-meter air gun event on Monday at the January 11-22 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, Qatar. Vinh finished fourth behind the gold medal winner from South Korea, Jin Jong Oh with [...]
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January 14, 2012
 Director Le Hoang (L). His latest sleazy movie, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), revolves around a straightforward question that satirizes materialistic relationships: how much does it cost to sleep with you? Le Hoang’s latest soft-porn flick, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), just like his earlier ones, are less “cheap” than many people [...]
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January 11, 2012
Tyra Banks (L) and winner of Vietnam Next Top Model 2011 Hoang Thi Thuy. Photo: Nguyen Truong Hoang Thi Thuy, one of the two skinniest contestants in Vietnam Next Top Model’s second season, became the winner in the finale held on January 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. After a five-month-long competition, Thuy defeated [...]
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January 9, 2012
Vietnam's No.1 junior tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien. Photo by Kha Hoa. Vietnam’s No.1 junior tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien has jumped from the 121st position to the 67th spot in the world’s juniors rankings, according to the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The 17-year-old Vietnamese boy’s jump in the rankings was made possible by good performances [...]
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December 22, 2011
Vietnam’s best young tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien will be able to qualify for four Grand Slam contests next year when he is among the top 100 juniors. Thien was born in 1995 and is currently ranked 121st in the world’s junior ranking; but from the beginning of 2012, fifty-two junior players currently among [...]
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December 20, 2011
Travel agencies already struggling in difficult economic conditions will be hit hard by the latest hike in domestic airfares, industry insiders say. The agencies face both losses on tours already booked and cancellations of bookings because of higher tour prices. In fact, the airfare hike makes foreign tours more attractive to local customers, they [...]
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December 19, 2011
Hoang Van Thiep (top left) and other members of a gang alleged of threaten other companies at gun point in order to get contracts to fill land and buy scrap materials at lower than market prices. The director of a construction consulting company in Ho Chi Minh City has been arrested for using guns to [...]
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December 14, 2011
A cop and curious locals on a Ho Chi Minh City street where a man shot another dead due to personal conflict. A man shot another dead and fired his gun at police in Ho Chi Minh City Tuesday before being constrained. The shooting killed Huynh Tan Hai, 39, a construction contractor, news website VietNamNet [...]
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December 9, 2011
Vietnam's chess ace Le Quang Liem (R) will compete at the 2011 World Mind Sports Games in Beijing from December 8-12. Photo by Kha Hoa. Vietnam’s No. 1 chess player Le Quang Liem will fly to China on Monday to compete at the 2011 World Mind Sports Games (WMSG) in Beijing from December 8-12. The [...]
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