November 7, 2011
File photo from the VKA National All Breed Championship Dog Show 2010. Photo courtesy of Vnexpress. The Vietnam Dog Show 2011 will be held in Ho Chi Minh City on December 10 and 11. The Vietnam Kennel Association (VKA) has announced that the event will include the first VKA-FCI International Dog Show, the third VKA [...]
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October 29, 2011
The famous brand of Phu Quoc fish sauce, which is owned by the Phu Quoc Fish Sauce Association in the Mekong Delta province of Kien Giang, was recently registered by a Hong Kong-based company in China. Vietnamese producers’ associations should register their members’ collective brands overseas as soon as possible to avoid foreign legal battles [...]
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August 7, 2011
Vietnam hopes new resort complex on southern island will be a major fillip for tourism industry Phu Quoc Island, where the government plans to develop a casino resort With a multi-billion dollar casino project already in motion, hopes are now high in the tourism industry that Phu Quoc will turn into a resort island [...]
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May 11, 2011
Low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific, along with Air Mekong, Saturday increased their airfares on domestic flights (Photo by TBKTSG Online). Budget airline Jetstar Pacific and private carrier Air Mekong raised their prices on Saturday, half of month after the Finance Ministry approved a 22.7 percent increase in domestic airfares. Â Ta Huu Thanh, deputy general director [...]
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March 17, 2011
Spice jars at La Verticale in Hanoi La Verticale in Hanoi is more than a classy restaurant in the capable hands of Didier Corlou, a five-star Diamond Award chef and member of the French Culinary Academy. It is also the place to find exotic spices from Vietnam and other countries. Corlou – who has served [...]
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December 7, 2010
Phu Quoc’s staple dish offers a triumphant marriage of fresh and fermented flavors Goi ca trich (herring salad) served at Tieu Ngu Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. The dish can be found on the menu of every seaside shack and luxury restaurants in Phu Quoc. Nestled in the Gulf of Thailand, just off [...]
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November 8, 2010
Garbage from the Duong Dong River ends up on Phu Quoc sandbeach during low tide Ngo Van Giao wakes up early every day and earns VND20,000 from one hour of fetching plastic garbage from the Duong Dong River in his neighborhood. The 82-year-old said seven or ten people would come after him doing the same [...]
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January 22, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – Kien Giang province authorities has approved a controversial plan to rent forests to investors for them to develop eco-tourist projects. Lam Hoang Sa, deputy chairman of the Kien Giang People’s CommitteeLam Hoang Sa, deputy chairman of the Kien Giang People’s Committee, in an interview given to Tuoi tre, defended the move: “With [...]
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January 17, 2010
Didier Lemonnier shares a laugh with a Vietnamese friend. Absorbing Vietnamese life and aesthetics like a sponge, a French architect finds the inspiration for life and work in his new home. After Paris and London, thereâs nowhere Didier Lemonnier would rather be than Ho Chi Minh City.The French architect came to Vietnam two years ago [...]
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December 17, 2009
The island district of Phu Quoc off Kien Giang Province will complete a master development scheme for Khem Beach in An Thoi Commune soon to call for investors . . . Nguyen Van Hon, deputy head of the investment authority of the island district, told the Daily that the scheme, being mapped out by foreign [...]
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