December 31, 2011
White H’mong girls In the high mountains of northern Vietnam, the H’mong are all set to celebrate their New Year next week. Vietnam’s eighth largest ethnic group is renowned for its colorful clothes and the New Year is an occasion for flaunting them. For the H’mong, in fact, clothes do make the man – [...]
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December 12, 2011
Nguyen Khanh Hung threatens to call a deputy PM when police try to handcuff him for driving with a gun in Hanoi on December 4. Hanoi police on December 4 stopped a man after finding he was driving with a gun. Nguyen Khanh Hung threatened the police while being handcuffed, claiming he would call a [...]
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December 3, 2011
Thai women in the northern mountainous provinces perform xoe vong (dancing in circle) Without xoe, rice will not grow Without xoe, the flower will wither Without xoe, boys and girls will not become couples The poem eloquently expresses the importance of xoe in the daily life of the Thai people who populate the remote [...]
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November 3, 2011
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung signed agreements with Japanese counterpart Yoshihiko Noda to provide Japan with rare-earth minerals used in hybrid cars and wind turbines and to cooperate on a nuclear project. Japan agreed to cooperate on exploration, mining and processing of rare earths, starting with the Dong Pao project in Vietnam’s Lai [...]
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August 13, 2011
Many people in Vietnam’s northern highlands have been infected with the lethal anthrax disease in recent months, theVietnam News Agency (VNA) quoted a health official as saying Wednesday. According to the news source, the highly infectious disease, caused by bacillus anthracis bacterium, first appeared in Lai Chau province, where it has since infected 25 [...]
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August 11, 2011
An anthrax skin lesion The Vietnam Administration of Preventive Medicine on Sunday warned the northern mountainous provinces of Lai Chau, Dien Bien and Ha Giang of anthrax outbreaks in humans, the Sai Gon Tiep Thi newspaper reported. The administration said anthrax cases have been reported in the provinces since June, with Lai Chau having the [...]
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August 7, 2011
The Da River in Lai Chau Province A mother and four children are believed to have drowned Thursday when a boat carrying ten members of the family overturned on the Da River in the northern mountainous province of Lai Chau. Â The father and four other children were able to swim to safety. Boat driver [...]
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January 25, 2010
EU countries support program for rural water supply and sanitation; Egypt’s investment minister pays visit; Slovakian Speaker to visit; Vietnam kicks off preparations to host World Economic Forum EU countries support program for rural water supply and sanitation The UK Department for International Development (DFID), the Embassy of Denmark, and the Embassy of the Kingdom [...]
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January 10, 2010
Teacher Duong Tan Phat at the Pho Cuong Primary School in Quang Ngai said he had never received a Tet bonus during his 34 years in the profession. A makeshift classroom under a resident’s stilt house in Lai Chau’s Sin Ho DistrictLookAtVietnam – Teacher Duong Tan Phat at the Pho Cuong Primary School in the [...]
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January 10, 2010
A makeshift classroom under a residentâs stilt house in Lai Chauâs Sin Ho District Teacher Duong Tan Phat at the Pho Cuong Primary School in the poor central province of Quang Ngai said he had never received a Tet bonus during his 34 years in the profession. Phat is not alone.Some one million other teachers [...]
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