December 14, 2011
Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City have been ranked 41st and 43rd respectively among the 49 most expensive cities for expatriates to live in Asia, according to a new survey by the consulting firm ECA International. ECA’s Cost of Living Survey is carried out biannually in March and September by measuring a basket of [...]
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December 12, 2011
Artist Quach Dong Phuong (R) â at his latest exhibition titled ‘Cong xua’ (Old gates) with nearly 700 photos at Kim Ngan Temple on Hang Bac Street, Hanoi. The exhibition will run until mid-December, one of the events held to celebrate Vietnam Heritage Day, November 23. When Quach Dong Phuong went on a picnic [...]
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November 16, 2011
American student’s singing ambitions rekindled by the sound of Vietnamese Singing and teaching in Vietnam has not made Kyle Cochran (aka Kyo York) rich, but his life is better than ever. Photo courtesy of Kyo York When he first set foot in the Mekong Delta as a volunteer to teach English under a Princeton [...]
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November 7, 2011
Retired stage artists are happy to be among their own in the autumn of their lives Then and now: Doan Thien Kim with a photograph taken during her heydays as a cai luong artist in HCMC several decades ago Former cai luong (reformed theater) artist Doan Thien Kim, 77, looks sad whenever she receives [...]
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September 1, 2011
A Bahnar woman A photography exhibition titled “The Bahnar Minority in Kontum” will show at L’Espace in Hanoi September 5 to 19. Â The exhibition will feature photos of the Bahnar Minority in the central highlands of Kontum, taken and selected from the work of local folk culturist Nguyen Dong Chi (1915-1984) and doctor Nguyen [...]
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August 8, 2011
Researchers warn that urban noise pollution will exact a severe toll on Ho Chi Minh City eardrums Dense traffic at the Hang Xanh crossroads in Ho Chi Minh City. Doctors warn that the city’s excessive lvel of noise pollution is a threat to the hearing of residents. Nguyen Thi Thanh Huong sold her house [...]
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July 30, 2011
Nguyen Duy Hai (R) smiles in spite of his condition. A Dalat man saddled with an 80-kilogram tumor – the largest recorded in Vietnam – says he is waiting for a miracle, Sai Gon Tiep Thi reported. Nguyen Duy Hai, 31, is being treated at the Ho Chi Minh City Oncological Hospital, where doctors are planning to operate [...]
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July 15, 2011
Scientists and local residents observe an old five-leaved pine in Lam Dong Province's Bidoup – Ba Mountain National Park. Lam Dong Province is using environmental protection fees collected from investors of Central Highlands hydropower plants to pay an ethnic minority group to protect a major national park from poachers, criminal loggers and illegal development.  Managers of Bidoup – Ba [...]
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June 12, 2011
A GlaxoSmithKline Canada Inc. employee bottles Ziagen, an HIV oral liquid medication, on the packaging line at the company's Canadian headquarters in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, on Dec. 13, 2010. By Francoise Barré-Sinoussi (*) Thirty years ago, US scientists identified the first case of an immune system failure that we (Luc Montagnier, myself and colleagues) found [...]
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May 20, 2011
Vietnam will be the first country to pilot a new generation of HIV treatment initiated by the World Health Organization (WHO) next year, the United Nations’ agency announced in a press released issued Thursday. The pilot will be launched at two provinces with the highest HIV burden with supports from WHO and the Joint [...]
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