January 2, 2012
Hotels in Vietnam trade on the past to further their 21st century ambitions Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, which hosted well-known novelists such as Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, is famous with classic French architecture After the sun sinks among the limestone karsts of Ha Long Bay, the stars come out, to pepper the [...]
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December 2, 2011
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark starts the friendly badminton match between Vietnam's No.1 Tien Minh and Denmark's ace Peter Gade in Ho Chi Minh City on Wednesday. Photo by Kha Hoa. Vietnam’s badminton ace Nguyen Tien Minh and Denmark’s no.1 player Peter Hoeg Gade played a spectacular, friendly match at Ho Chi Minh City’s Phan [...]
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November 21, 2011
New world title will make no difference until existing infrastructure, services are improved, experts say A tourist boat sails past the stone islands of Ha Long Bay Ha Long Bay, by virtue of being the jewel in Vietnam’s tourism crown, has always been in the spotlight, but the lights have just gotten a lot [...]
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November 14, 2011
President Barack Obama arrives during the first plenary meeting at the APEC Summit in Honolulu, Hawaii November 13, 2011. The head of Boeing chose his words carefully as he explained to President Barack Obama the “dilemma” that Corporate America faces in trying to do business in China. “We see a world where our interests lay [...]
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November 6, 2011
The 28-ranked GM Le Quang Liem (L) will receive US$150,000 from the Vietnam Chess Federation in four years, Photo by VnExpress. The Vietnam Chess Federation (VCF) on Thursday inked four-year sponsorship contracts worth US$200,000 with the country’s two best chess players, Le Quang Liem and Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son. The 20-year-old Liem, ranked 28th in [...]
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November 4, 2011
GM Le Quang Liem (L) has fallen three positions to 28th while GM Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son (R) has jumped 23 spots to 83rd. Photo by NLD. Chess ace GM Le Quang Liem slipped three spots in the World rankings while the country’s second best Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son jumped 23 places, according to FIDE [...]
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October 11, 2011
Workers of Taiwanese-owned footwear company Pou Yuen Vietnam Co., Ltd. in Binh Tan District, Ho Chi Minh City, on strike last year. A former official from the Ministry of Public Security says the right to strike needs to be protected by laws in Vietnam. The Law on Demonstration is being drafted by the Ministry [...]
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September 18, 2011
Visa hassles makes globetrotter out of humiliated ‘third world’ citizen Kashi Samaddar recently received a Guinness World Record as the first person to visit the then 194 sovereign countries In 1893, Mahatma Gandhi encountered an act of racism in South Africa that galvanized his campaign against discrimination and shaped his response of non-violent resistance. [...]
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September 9, 2011
Vietnam has to get very tough or the flood of illegal Chinese workers will continue Chinese workers at a construction site in the south-central province of Phu Yen. Thousands of illegal workers will continue taking jobs from Vietnamese workers if the Vietnamese government does not take action now, analysts say. There will be no [...]
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September 9, 2011
The sun rises over highrise buildings in downtown Beijing in 2010. A person tries to kill themselves in China every two minutes, the government and state media said Thursday, giving the country one of the highest suicide rates in the world. China’s suicide rate is 22.23 people out of every 100,000, the Centre for Disease [...]
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