January 16, 2012
A local woman is offering food, carps and clothing for the Kitchen Gods On the 23rd of the last lunar month every year, the large kitchen in Ms Ly Thi Phuong’s house in Hanoi’s Gia Lam District becomes extremely busy. The 56-year-old prepares for something important for most Vietnamese – a gala farewell party [...]
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January 9, 2012
Two Honda motorbikes have become the latest victims of mysterious fires that have burned more than 90 vehicles across Vietnam since last year. One of the new cases happened in the central province of Thua Thien – Hue right after Hoang Thi Mai Tram left Hue Central Hospital, where she works, on Thursday. Tram said she [...]
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January 6, 2012
Three students from Da Nang with the camera they used to make an award-winning film about HIV/AIDS discrimination Three teenagers from central Vietnam won top prize at the Asia Student Film Festival in Japan with a short film that sends a message against HIV/AIDS discrimination. Seventh graders Phan Thi Thuy Dung and Trinh Lan [...]
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December 31, 2011
A motorbike on fire in Hanoi on October 12 Tests on gasoline samples suspected of being related to recent vehicular fires in Vietnam revealed no excessive additives which might have caused the blazes, Tuoi Tre reported Saturday. The newspaper quoted Tran Van Vinh, deputy chief of the Directorate for Standards, Metrology and Quality, as saying [...]
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December 20, 2011
An 82-year-old woman in HCMC promotes artists, advises young documentary filmmakers, and opens foreigners’ eyes to Vietnam ’s millennia-old history and culture Nguyen Thi Xuan Phuong, 82, spends her whole life in introducing Vietnamese heroic history and stunning art Lotus Gallery, located in a modest part of downtown Ho Chi Minh City, has been [...]
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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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December 6, 2011
Tran Thuy Lieu (L), the wife of reporter Le Hoang Hung, and her daughter, at his funeral. The newspaper Hung used to work for said it suspects Hung’s wife is not the only culprit in his death. A Vietnamese newspaper has asked the nation’s supreme court, prosecutors and police to launch fresh investigations into the murder [...]
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November 16, 2011
A 96-year-old man says he is close to ending a treasure hunt that has lasted well over 50 years Tran Van Tiep, 96, and his youngest son Tran Phuong Hong. Tiep has obtained permission from Binh Thuan Province authorities to search for the 4,000 tons of gold treasure he believed to be hidden in [...]
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November 7, 2011
Forest rangers in the central province of Quy Nhon on November 2 said they are treating an endangered, injured gray-shanked douc langur (Pygathrix cinerea) monkey, which was kept by a local. According to Tran Duy An, chief of the Forest Ranger Division in Tuy Phuoc District, the local whose identity was not revealed bought the douc in the nearby [...]
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October 28, 2011
The Communist Party unit in a Mekong Delta city has issued a warning to a senior tax official for violating the party’s ethics code at a local massage parlor, newswire VnExpress reported. The Party committe of Ca Mau City also proposed that the city’s Tax Office sack its deputy director, Pham Minh Quang. According to [...]
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