Vanina Nguyen, or Nguyen Hoai Van Anh, 19, a Vietnamese-Bulgarian athlete, has asked to join the Vietnamese national athletics team. Nguyen Hoai Van Anh and her medals. Vanina Nguyen has a Vietnamese father and Bulgarian mother. She is now a member of the Titan Athletics Club in Bulgaria. She was a member of the Bulgarian athletics [...]
Exporters are hoping to find favor with Vietnamese shoppers after demand from international customers slumped Local businesses, feeling the pain from a sharp decline in export orders, say they are switching their focus back to the domestic market. Truc Viet Company in Ho Chi Minh City has exported bamboo and rattan products for more than [...]
Local businessmen in southern Bac Lieu Province have given the destitute son of a once rich and famous aristocrat, known for visiting his rice fields in a plane, a house and some work to help his family make ends meet. The beneficiary, 62-year-old Tran Trinh Duc, is the son of Tran Trinh Huy, known as [...]
Workers from Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone in HCMC on a bus back to their hometowns for Tet A woman named Man and her son were found crying by the roadside last Saturday after a bus company took their fare but kicked them off the bus only halfway to their destination. Stranded at the edge [...]
Matt Chapmanâs bicycle shop east of Seattle always gets a sales boost in summer. Not because of the weather. Itâs when Microsoft Corp.âs interns arrive, carrying $300 checks from their employer for transportation. âThree hundred dollars goes a long way toward an inexpensive bike and a helmet,â said Chapman, 22, a sales associate at Performance [...]
A luxurious party with roses, white candles, poems, and music took place at one of the largest hotels in Hanoi. Ten Vietnamese brides in South Korea, their Korean husbands and children were the major guests of that party. A Vietnamese bride and her family at the party. The party was held in the evening of January [...]
Many overseas Vietnamese singers have returned to perform in HCM City during Lunar New Year Festival (Tet). Singer and composer Duc HuyLookatvietnam – Many overseas Vietnamese singers have returned to perform in HCM City during Lunar New Year Festival (Tet).The evenings are an exciting time for local singers now that live shows occur more often [...]
Lookatvietnam – The HCM City Labour Union has provided almost 6,500 city workers from northern and central provinces with gifts and bus tickets to go home for Tet. HCM City authorities support city workers from northern and central provinces with bus tickets home for Tet.The union raised about VND3.5 billion (US$200,000) for the programme to [...]
Vietnamese American Do Van Du (L) on a charity trip to support children with hydrocephalus in a hospital in Vietnam After 20 years in the US building a successful career in information technology (IT), 57-year-old Do Van Du has returned to his country to train other people with disabilities. In 1966, at the age of [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – Concerns have been raised that big projects will fall into the hands of foreign real estate groups. However, economists say Vietnamese investors now have many opportunities to control the market in 2009. The biggest reason that has delayed a lot of foreign invested projects is that the disbursement has been slowed down [...]
