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Walls can speak

October 3, 2009
Walls can speak

Concerns about overt commercialization, historical ignorance and haphazard design are dogging a half-completed project to create a 4.3-kilometer mural for Hanoi’s millennium. When artist and journalist Nguyen Thu Thuy suggested creating a ceramic mosaic mural showing episodes from Vietnamese history in March 2007, it found immediate favor with the general public and the press.The idea [...]

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Ceramic Road may become “cultural rubbish”, experts warn

September 12, 2009
Ceramic Road may become “cultural rubbish”, experts warn

Not only local people, experts also are now criticising the Ceramic Road, a significant project to celebrate the 1000th Thang Long – Hanoi anniversary.  Historian Le Van Lan couldn’t hide his disappointment over the Ceramic Road project, calling it a “money-making and advertising road”.  Painter Tran Luong worried that this outdoor artwork would become “cultural [...]

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Hanoi’s Ceramic Road receiving complaints

September 8, 2009
Hanoi’s Ceramic Road receiving complaints

People’s complaints about the Ceramic Road project have urged the Hanoi People’s Council to ask the local People’s Committee to look into the huge project. A big logo of a sponsor on the Ceramic Road.LookAtVietnam – People’s complaints about the Ceramic Road project along the Red River dike in Hanoi have urged the local People’s [...]

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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...