Posts Tagged ‘ In The Morning ’

Floral mystique 

August 16, 2011
Floral mystique 

  Every part of the lotus creeper is useful, but to make the best tea, it takes a very special flower and very special knowledge Is there a lingering fragrance? Or is it wishful imagination? There are no lotuses, for sure. All the lotus ponds near the West Lake in Hanoi are now completely covered [...]

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Tết Market 

January 15, 2011
Tết Market 

Bronze work at Chợ Viềng, an annual Tết market in the northern province of Nam Dinh. The approach of T ế t (Lunar New Year) is marked by an abundance of decorations in the street and traditional food in the shops. You can almost smell the coming Lunar New Year. For Vietnamese people, Tết is [...]

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Free-for-all garbage dumping dirties Phu Quoc Island 

November 8, 2010
Free-for-all garbage dumping dirties Phu Quoc Island 

Garbage from the Duong Dong River ends up on Phu Quoc sandbeach during low tide Ngo Van Giao wakes up early every day and earns VND20,000 from one hour of fetching plastic garbage from the Duong Dong River in his neighborhood. The 82-year-old said seven or ten people would come after him doing the same [...]

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Hanoi: land of lakes

January 31, 2010
Hanoi: land of lakes

There’s no better place to let the time roll away than on the waterfront  Hoan Kiem Lake, which is the heart and soul of Hanoi, means “Lake of the Returned Sword”, in reference to the legend surrounding fifteenth century Vietnamese hero General Le LoiHanoi’s 20 lakes are renowned for bringing the city a sense of [...]

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As bustling as Ganh Do in the early morning

December 20, 2009
As bustling as Ganh Do in the early morning

When the sun does not appear on the horizon, fishermen of Song Cau District in the central province of Phu Yen row their thuyen thung offshore to catch fish.  Fishermen and their relatives open their nets to take fish to Ganh Do in the morning.A fisherman called Trung told the Daily that like his neighbors [...]

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Vietnamese children said to ‘lose roots’ at international schools

December 4, 2009
Vietnamese children said to ‘lose roots’ at international schools

VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese parents who send their children to ‘international schools’ dream they will gain the skills there to become ‘world citizens.’  Students of Horizon International School in HCM City are learning Vietnamese“I was astonished to realize that many of my nine and ten year-old students can speak English very well, but find it [...]

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The poor children being taught by Buddhists

October 29, 2009
The poor children being taught by Buddhists

Lien Hoa pagoda is the place, where hundreds of poor children from the ‘immigration village’ at Nhi Thien Duong bridge pier go to learn. Like other classes, the class at the Lien Hoa pagoda has a teacher and students. However that is where similarities end. As the children of rural migrants, students here have neither cash [...]

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Boardinghouse blues

October 23, 2009
Boardinghouse blues

In a 30-square-meter room with no fan, no window and only one door, some 250 women and men are jostling for sleeping space. There’s no empty space on the floor. The sleepers, mostly manual laborers and peddlers from rural provinces who come to Ho Chi Minh City for work, all sleep on their sides, elbows [...]

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Cruise the Da River

September 20, 2009
Cruise the Da River

LookAtVietnam – The breathtaking landscape around Hoa Binh Dam and the unspoiled beauty of the Da River are indelibly etched in every visitor’s mind. LookAtVietnam – The breathtaking landscape around Hoa Binh Dam and the unspoiled beauty of the Da River are indelibly etched in every visitor’s mind. It takes two hours to drive the hundred [...]

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A taste of home

August 30, 2009
A taste of home

The Vietnamese community in Vientiane have plenty of options when they’re pining for some grub from the old country. LookAtVietnam – The Vietnamese community in Vientiane have plenty of options when they’re pining for some grub from the old country.  Late one evening in Vientiane a Vietnamese man quietly reassures me that I can easily [...]

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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...