December 28, 2009
Jan Cempirek has become famous in Czech after he was revealed as the author of White Horse, Yellow Dragon, which had won a prestigious annual award under the name of a Vietnamese girl. Writer Jan Cempirek and the Vietnamese girl who played Pham Thi Lan in the video clip sent to the jury of the [...]
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December 14, 2009
“White Horse, Gold Dragon” is a trenchant account of discrimination endured by Vietnamese who live in the Czech Republic. But it was not written by a Vietnamese author. So who did write it? The book “White Horse, Gold Dragon”. The story began when a 19-year-old Vietnamese girl who is living in the Czech Republic won a prestigious literary [...]
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October 29, 2009
The Viet Nam Buddhist Sangha and Ha Noi municipal authorities began casting a statue of legendary hero Giong on Monday in Phu Linh Commune in Ha Noi’s Soc Son District. Larger than life: Sculptor Kim Xuan stands next to a model of his statue of Saint Giong to be erected on a mountaintop in Soc [...]
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October 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A ceremony to cast a statue of the legendary Vietnamese hero Saint Giong was held at the Soc Temple relic area, Soc Son District, Hanoi on October 26. Residents in Soc Son District, Hanoi stand in front of a plaster Saint Giong statue during the October 26 casting ceremony (Photo: Tuoi Tre) The project of making the statue [...]
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July 7, 2009
The Phu Tho Racecourse has asked HCM City authorities to use 20 jockeys between the ages of 15-17 for another year. An underage jockey is about to join the race. Controversy rages over use of underage jockeys in HCMC The racecourse employs 50 jockeys from 15 to 31 years old. Among them, there are 30 jockeys of [...]
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June 13, 2009
An Iraqi jockey strokes his horse as he prepares for a race Iraq’s only horse racing track has survived war, violence, looting and fire to remain open almost without a break for more than 80 years. Seven thoroughbreds thundered down the back stretch engulfed in a cloud of desert dust before Rose of Ali surged [...]
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June 13, 2009
What people remember to this day about Duong Van Tha is that he was tireless. One of the most popular players at the Saigon Port Club in the mid seventies and eighties, fans of the time still talk about how excellent he was on the right flank, running up and down like a shuttle, never [...]
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May 26, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The municipal administration’s ban on using child labour has hit the nascent horse racing industry hard, so concerned agencies have announced more extensive studies on various aspects of the issue. Boys work as jockeys at the Phu Tho racetrack in HCM City.Adolescents, who are small in size and weight, are typically chosen as [...]
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May 25, 2009
The use of under-18 boys as jockeys must be stopped before June 5, the city’s administration has ordered. LookAtVietnam – The use of under-18 boys as jockeys must be stopped before June 5, the city’s administration has ordered. The orders come after concerns raised last month that the use of underage jockeys in the Phu [...]
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May 24, 2009
The use of under-18 boys as jockeys must be stopped before June 5, the cityâs administration has ordered. The orders come after concerns raised last month that the use of underage jockeys in the Phu Tho Racecourse in District 11 violated the Law on Child Protection, Care and Education issued in 2004.The HCMC Peopleâs Committee [...]
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