Posts Tagged ‘ Le Thi ’

Skinny in vogue 

January 11, 2012
Skinny in vogue 

  Tyra Banks (L) and winner of Vietnam Next Top Model 2011 Hoang Thi Thuy. Photo: Nguyen Truong Hoang Thi Thuy, one of the two skinniest contestants in Vietnam Next Top Model’s second season, became the winner in the finale held on January 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. After a five-month-long competition, Thuy defeated [...]

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Couple jailed for robbing foreign tourists in Vietnam metro 

December 31, 2011
Couple jailed for robbing foreign tourists in Vietnam metro 

(R) Nguyen Van Trung, 32, and his girlfriend, 28-year-old Le Thi Hong Linh receive jail terms at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City for robbing a Japanese tourist. A couple was sentenced to a total of four years in jail on Wednesday for robbing a Japanese tourist in Ho Chi Minh City, as travel [...]

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Five children drown in duck pond 

August 1, 2011
Five children drown in duck pond 

The duck pond where the bodies of five children were found in Thua Thien Hue Province. Five children – four girls and a boy – were found dead in a duck pond in the central province of Thua Thien-Hue on Thursday, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. Of the five victims, Nguyen Thi Cam Van, 11, [...]

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Local women knock out two golds at int’l boxing event 

July 15, 2011
Local women knock out two golds at int’l boxing event 

Vietnamese boxer Luu Thi Duyen wins the women’s 57kg gold at the President's Cup in Jakarta. Vietnamese boxers have returned home from the President’s Cup in Jakarta, Indonesia, carrying five medals, including two golds. The 21st annual contest ended Friday July 8 with two silvers and one bronze also in Vietnamese pockets. Luu Thi Duyen [...]

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Fishermen pick up East Sea gauntlet 

July 2, 2011
Fishermen pick up East Sea gauntlet 

  International experts urge action to back rhetoric as China and Vietnam pledge to solve East Sea disputes peacefully Sixty-two-year old Nguyen Van Ai of the central Binh Dinh Province prepares for an offshore fishing trip. Ai owns four large fishing boats and together with six sons, two sons-in-law and 75 other fishermen, head out [...]

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Vietnamese girl missing in UK 

April 23, 2011
Vietnamese girl missing in UK 

Le Thi Thao in a photo released by Bristol police. Police in Bristol city in southwest England are looking for a Vietnamese girl missing since April 17, BBC reported. Le Thi Thao, 14, was last seen in Hartcliffe, Bristol last Sunday evening. A spokeswoman of Bristol police said Thao speaks Vietnamese but very little English, [...]

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A dyeing tradition 

April 21, 2011
A dyeing tradition 

  Elderly women hark back to a time when black teeth were in fashion An elderly woman in the northern province of Bac Ninh, revealing her blackened teeth dyed when she was teenager It would raise more than an eyebrow and cause jaws to drop now, but there was a time, not too long ago, [...]

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Children’s shelter escapees lied about torture: police 

January 6, 2011
Children’s shelter escapees lied about torture: police 

Two of the four children, Huy (R) and Hai, who escaped from a shelter in Dong Nai, show police the place from which they jumped off from a railway bridge, and were injured. The four children who sparked public outrage with their story of abuse after escaping from a shelter in Dong Nai last month [...]

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Four children accuse couple of brutal abuse 

November 12, 2010
Four children accuse couple of brutal abuse 

Six-year-old Diep Tuan Khoa A senior official at a shelter in the southern province of Dong Nai has denied accusations from four children who claim they were seriously abused. The kids were found wandering the streets of Ho Chi Minh City earlier this week. “I was really shocked when they said my husband and I [...]

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VN secures second place at games

December 19, 2009
VN secures second place at games

Viet Nam scooped 20 gold medals in the penultimate day of competition at the 25th SEA Games to seal second place in the overall medal tally, . . . Powerhouse Thailand topped the medal tally with 84 gold, 80 silver and 95 bronze medals.Third place went to Indonesia with 43 gold, 53 silver and 73 [...]

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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...