December 17, 2011
Australian students build a house for a poor man in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam early December It seems like an unusual way for Australian teenagers to spend money they earned from part-time jobs, but 13 of them recently used their savings to attend special tours in southern Vietnam where they built houses [...]
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November 14, 2011
A local worker prepares before moving the 1,500 ton Van Linh Pagoda on Cam Mountain in An Giang Province 20 meters backward and simultaneously turning it 90 degrees. They call him a genie, but Do Quoc Khanh waves it off, saying there is no magic to his work. “As soon as all the procedures [...]
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November 3, 2011
The front door of Dr Nguyen Duy Tu's house in Ca Mau Province was broken by a crowd furious over a teenage girl's death. Police in the southern province of Ca Mau have asked prosecutors to charge 34 people for attacking local doctors’ houses in protest of their irresponsibility in the death of a 17-year-old [...]
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October 22, 2011
A photo taken on October 18 shows houses submerged by flood waters in Tan Hoa District, Quang Binh Province Devastating floods in Vietnam’s central and southern regions have killed at least 59 people and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control reported Wednesday. Seasonal flooding [...]
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October 20, 2011
Entrance to Cuu Village in Van Tu Commune, Phu Xuyen District, Hanoi It is an old village that has literally risen, phoenix-like, from the ashes, but is now in danger of being consumed by unbridled urbanization. Cuu Village in Van Tu Commune of the suburban district of Phu Xuyen is one of the oldest [...]
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October 9, 2011
The debris of houses hit by a landslide in Yen Bai Province Wednesday night Four houses were buried and two people killed by a major landslide in Vietnam’s northern mountainous region Wednesday night, local police said. Â The incident happened at almost midnight when nearly 500 cubic meters of land and rock from around 10 [...]
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September 4, 2011
Traditional houses hundreds of years old that stand among picturesque fruit and flower gardens are a striking feature of Tien Giang Province’s Cai Be District. But there is another striking aspect about these homes that has been a recent development. They do not welcome Vietnamese tourists. Starting this August, travel agents’ offices at Cai [...]
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September 1, 2011
The wreckage of a house that collapsed on Sunday evening in Nha Be District. Rescuers have recovered the body of a man who was killed after landslide brought down five riverside resettlement houses in the outlying district of Nha Be in Ho Chi Minh City. The man was identified as Vo Van Tai, a 55-year-old [...]
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August 14, 2011
The Nom Bridge with nine spans has not outlived its usefulness for locals The Nom Village is more than a typical village although it has all the needed features, including a village square, a big tree at the entrance and a bridge with nine spans. Located 30-km east of Hanoi, the village in Hung [...]
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July 16, 2011
Paddy fields in the Mai Chau Valley in the northern province of Hoa Binh There is arguably no other place in Vietnam that enchants visitors as much as the northwestern region. And the place that leaves the highest number of indelible impressions on the mind is the Mai Chau Town in Hoa Binh Province, [...]
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