February 1, 2010
Nearly 40 old bicycles, some worth several thousand dollars, grouped up by West Lake on a Sunday morning. In the noisy are of car and motorbike horns, bicycle bells sometimes stroke ding-dong.. Tran Nhu Tho (black glasses) and his unique Aviac. On the occasion of the New Year, members of the Hanoi Old Bicycle association [...]
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November 10, 2009
Claudio Duek LookAtVietnam – Career opportunities bring most expatriates to Vietnam, but other spaces open up once they get here. It is the good life that Claudio Duek has been living as an expatriate in Ho Chi Minh City for the last six years. A well-paid job as an orthopedic surgeon at the Medical Family [...]
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November 9, 2009
Claudio Duek formed the Bad Neighbor with four Vietnamese musicians and another foreigner Career opportunities bring most expatriates to Vietnam, but other spaces open up once they get here. It is the good life that Claudio Duek has been living as an expatriate in Ho Chi Minh City for the last six years.A well-paid job [...]
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November 3, 2009
The four winners (L to R) Hoang Manh Cuong, Phan Duy Linh, Phan Y Ly and Nguyen Manh Ha Vietnamese filmmakers win a chance to have their documentaries aired on the Discovery Channel. Documentary film treatments written by five Hanoi-based filmmakers will be made with the support of the Discovery Channel after winning the First [...]
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September 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Everyday, people see thousands of kites soaring in the blue sky over the crowded residential area in north-west Hanoi. An enthusiast flies kite on the beach.This is Ba Duong Noi, a village long known for its beautifully crafted kites made in the shapes of crescent moons or boats and attached with small flutes [...]
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August 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The giant rocks appear out of nowhere in a vacant lot on a road just outside the beach town of Nha Trang. LookAtVietnam – The giant rocks appear out of nowhere in a vacant lot on a road just outside the beach town of Nha Trang. Fossil wood, quartz rocks, granite rocks, amber [...]
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August 20, 2009
The giant rocks appear out of nowhere in a vacant lot on a road just outside the beach town of Nha Trang. Fossil wood, quartz rocks, granite rocks, amber and sapphire â“ most of them are millions of years old and many are huge, weighing dozens of tons each.The lot in Phuoc Dong Commune is [...]
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August 18, 2009
A group of elderly people in Bac Giang keep the art of quan ho alive Young at heart: A group of elderly in Bac Giang province still love to sing quan ho melodies.With a snow-white head of hair, he is typically like any other old man of his age. But when he wears the khan [...]
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August 16, 2009
The global economic crisis has depressed the Vietnamese painting market. Fewer collectors, especially knowledgable collectors, are buying these days. A painting by Vietnamese artist Tran Luu Hau, collected by NewAsia gallery in Singapore. The late connoisseur Duc Minh (also called Bui Dinh Than) is still well-remembered. As a rich businessman, Duc Minh enriched Vietnam’s art [...]
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August 9, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The son of an architect and born into a prominent intellectual family, Hoang Dao Cuong follows family tradition by designing some of Viet Nam’s most influential works. He has designed and restored a number of religious projects, including a statue of Lord Buddha Sakyamuni in Vinh Phuc Province, the Van Son Zen Monastery, [...]
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