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Central province builds Sa Huynh Culture preservation center 

January 3, 2012
Central province builds Sa Huynh Culture preservation center 

Artifacts from Sa Huynh Culture (1000 BC – 200 AD). A ground-breaking ceremony to establish the Sa Huynh Culture Preservation Center was held last week in the central province of Quang Ngai’s Duc Pho District. The center will be built on an area of two hectares with a total capital investment of nearly VND32 billion (US$1.5 [...]

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Vietnam in leech scare as trade to China goes uncontrolled 

December 3, 2011
Vietnam in leech scare as trade to China goes uncontrolled 

A man in Ho Chi Minh City cautiously stretches a leech. Locals are worried the uncontrolled population of the blood-sucking worms could harm their children   People in certain Ho Chi Minh City areas are having sleepless nights worrying about a leech invasion after an enterprise buying them to send to China moved suddenly last month, [...]

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Love is food to longevity 

October 11, 2011
Love is food to longevity 

   Nguyen Thi Lanh, 106, and her youngest daughter, 71, from HCMC’s District 12. She and her husband, Huynh Van Lac, 110, have been certified by Vietnam Records Book as the country’s oldest couple. Huynh Thi Hoa, 71, says that ever since her parents reached the age of 90, during every Tet Festival their home [...]

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Rose-tinted lenses 

September 20, 2011
Rose-tinted lenses 

  Overseas Vietnamese filmmakers take stereotypical symbols at face value in presenting Vietnam to the world A scene in Ao lua Ha Dong (the white silk dress), a Viet kieu’s box office hit in 2007 Overseas Vietnamese filmmakers tend to make two kinds of movies to show here. The first are commercial movies that target [...]

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Thousand-year-old artifacts unearthed in central Vietnam 

July 9, 2011
Thousand-year-old artifacts unearthed in central Vietnam 

The 2,500-year-old earring uncovered at a dig site in the Ham Thuan Bac District in the central coastal province of Binh Thuan. This week, a team of Vietnamese archaeologists unearthed a cache of 3,000 year-old artifacts in central Vietnam. Experts from the General Museum in Quang Ngai Province announced that the find includes several artifacts [...]

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Life among the dead 

February 18, 2011
Life among the dead 

  An impoverished graveyard community clings to its meager livelihood as city authorities plan redevelopment Huynh Van Hai, 67, at his house adjoining a cemetery in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Hung Hoa A Ward. His wife (L) washes and dries scavenged plastic bags on the graves that come up into their backyard. More than [...]

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Two students stabbed, hospitalized in southern school violence 

November 22, 2010
Two students stabbed, hospitalized in southern school violence 

Tran Nhu Huynh being treated at a Binh Duong hospital after being stabbed by a former schoolmate on Monday An eleventh grader in Ho Chi Minh City was rushed to hospital Wednesday with severe knife injuries inflicted my young men while on his way home.   Doctors said Nguyen Ngoc Sang, 16, has a gash ten [...]

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Kesley receives Golden Boot Award for 2009

January 22, 2010
Kesley receives Golden Boot Award for 2009

  Binh Duong FC striker Huynh Kesley on January 20 received the Golden Boot Award 2009 in HCM City with his Vietnamese wife and son. The Brazilian striker, who has been was granted Vietnamese nationality, went to the award ceremony with his wife Huynh Thi Le Loc and his one-year son Kelvin Huynh Alves. With 17 [...]

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Teenager Trang upsets Huynh in National Tennis Championship

December 27, 2009
Teenager Trang upsets Huynh in National Tennis Championship

Sixteen-year-old Huynh Phuong Dai Trang wins the National Women’s Singles Tennis Championship 2009 Sixteen-year-old Huynh Phuong Dai Trang upset country’s No.1 woman tennis player Huynh Mai Huynh 2-1 in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday to win the National Women’s Singles Tennis Championship 2009. Both players showed beautiful performances and excited the spectators at the [...]

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Teenager Trang takes first national title

December 27, 2009
Teenager Trang takes first national title

Teen tennis player Huynh Phuong Dai Trang won her first national tennis title after overcoming Huynh Mai Huynh in an electrifying three-set final of the National Top Tennis Players Championship. Da Nang-based Trang, who lost to Huynh in straight sets in the preliminary stage, played her best match in the tournament to beat Huynh 6-2, [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...