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Vietnamese student’s iPhone app book published by US firm 

January 18, 2012
Vietnamese student’s iPhone app book published by US firm 

Vo Duy Khang (L) and his friends at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia A 22-year-old Vietnamese student has authored a book on how to build better iPhone applications published by a US-based publishing house. Last November, Vo Duy Khang made his debut as a writer with the book Pro iOS Apps Performance Optimization, published by Apress.  Written [...]

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The art of collecting and giving 

November 16, 2011
The art of collecting and giving 

  Book-collectors are a rare breed, but young book lovers rarer still Minh Ngoc, an old book trader, stands in her shop of the same name on Vo Van Tan St., HCMC Priest Nguyen Huu Triet is a regular client at the local scrap dealers, always looking for old, rare books that most people would [...]

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Taking care of business 

October 23, 2011
Taking care of business 

  The owner of Vietnam’s first private company after doi moi says entrepreneurs need to know their society in and out – politically and historically – not just economically Nguyen Tran Bat, chairman and general director of Invest Consult Group. Nguyen Tran Bat says the best business decision he ever made had little to do [...]

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Google Maps again falsely depicts Vietnamese territory as China's: scholar 

October 21, 2011
Google Maps again falsely depicts Vietnamese territory as China's: scholar 

A Google map wrongly following China's bogus claims to much of the East Sea, including Vietnamese territory and waters. Google’s web mapping service has again falsely depicted Vietnamese territory as belonging to China. In August 2010, Google Maps fixed errors that depicted parts of Vietnamese land territory as belonging to China, following a request from Vietnamese [...]

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Tourism officials should pay attention to detail 

August 28, 2011
Tourism officials should pay attention to detail 

  For years, local officials have expended considerable effort to promote Vietnam as an attractive tourism destination, announcing new tours, running commercials on international TV channels and so on. However, they seem to forget about the handiest tools in tourism promotion: guidebooks, which together with postcards and souvenirs, are among income sources that do not [...]

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Found in translation 

August 27, 2011
Found in translation 

  Guenter Giesenfeld and Marianne Ngo, who won a notable award in Germany this year for their translation of a short story collection by Vietnamese author Le Minh Khue I first met Professor Guenter Giesenfeld at an international conference on promoting Vietnamese literature more than a year ago. Our paths crossed again after Le Minh [...]

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Daily Mail says no published stories based on hacking 

July 26, 2011

  UK newspaper group Daily Mail & General Trust has not published any stories based on hacked messages, its chief executive said, as rival News Corp battles a phone-hacking crisis at its now defunct News of the World tabloid. Martin Morgan said DMGT was considering launching its own mass-market Sunday tabloid to fill the gap [...]

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Novelist turns fantasy into reality 

May 22, 2011
Novelist turns fantasy into reality 

Jenny-Mai Nuyen, now 23, is the writer of six best-seller fantasy novels which have been translated into German, English, and Vietnamese. Jenny-Mai Nuyen started writing when she was five years old. At the age of 13, she penned her first fantasy novel. At 18, the Vietnamese-German published, Nijura – Das Erbe der Elfenkrone (Nijura – [...]

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Lecturer denounced for plagiarizing Korean dictionary

January 27, 2010
Lecturer denounced for plagiarizing Korean dictionary

VietNamNet Bridge – A Korean grammar dictionary, popular among students, has been found to be have been plagiarized.   The book is Ly Kinh Hien, a lecturer of the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanity, however it turns out that it’s merely a translation of South Korean work. A group of Vietnamese postgraduates in [...]

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Profiling Vietnamese literature’s growth and popularity overseas

January 20, 2010
Profiling Vietnamese literature’s growth and popularity overseas

To mark the international conference introducing Vietnamese literature to the world (January 5-10), Tuoi Tre Cuoi Tuan reviews the impact Vietnamese literature is making internationally. From the left: writers Phan Thi Vang Anh, Le Minh Khue, Ho Anh Thai and Nguyen Huy Thiep at the Gothenburg International Book Fair in Sweden 2003. In the early 1990s, [...]

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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...