January 14, 2012
“The Iron Lady,” the new biopic starring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversial before audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayal of the aging former prime minister’s dementia. The current UK prime minister, David Cameron, suggested the movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made while Thatcher was alive. Her former [...]
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November 19, 2011
Shakespeare’s classic tragedy fails to win local hearts and minds The sound wasn’t great; voices were sometimes hushed and the words and music muddled together. And if the Old-English wasn’t difficult enough for local Vietnamese audiences to understand – native English speakers often don’t understand it – the poor audio system at the Ho [...]
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November 11, 2011
In 1989, New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm published her famous essay, “The Journalist and the Murderer,” with its notoriously overheated opening sentence: “Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible.” This was back in the era [...]
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May 10, 2011
YouTube is beefing up its roster of movies for “rent” online in the United States to woo viewers away from television and take on booming Internet service Netflix. YouTube is beefing up its roster of movies for “rent” online in the United States to woo viewers away from television and take on booming Internet service [...]
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March 8, 2011
Co-host James Franco (L), best actor nominee for his role in “127 Hours,” and co-host Anne Hathaway stand onstage during the 83rd Academy Awards in Hollywood, California, February 27, 2011. Oscar organizers tried something unprecedented in the awards’ 83-year history on Sunday — entrusting a young, attractive pair of Hollywood stars to host the film [...]
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February 28, 2011
A tour bus advertising the movie “Sex and the City 2” is seen in New York in 2010. Martial arts fantasy flick “The Last Airbender” swept the board at the pre-Oscar Razzie awards for worst movies of 2010 Saturday, while “Sex and the City 2” also won one of the dubious honors. “Airbender,” a box [...]
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January 25, 2010
Nguyen Xinh Xo, 32, won the Vietnamese Song Award 2009 at a ceremony in Hanoi on January 24 for his song “Dong Ho Treo Tuong” or “Clock”. Singer Tung Duong received the award for Nguyen Xinh Xo. Studying business administration in the US, Nguyen Xinh Xo has been known as a talented songwriter since his cooperation [...]
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January 25, 2010
Fame and fashion go hand-in-hand in the world of pop music. Most singers spare no time or money when dolling up to look as good as possible. Singer Ho Ngoc HaLookAtVietnam – Fame and fashion go hand-in-hand in the world of pop music. Most singers spare no time or money when dolling up to look [...]
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January 14, 2010
VietNamNet Bridge – The central city of Da Nang once again tops the 2009 provincial competitiveness index (PCI) ranking. Vu Tien Loc, Chairman of VCCI hands over certificates to the localities with good PCIThe Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) on January 14 released the report on provincial competitiveness index, PCI 2009. It gives the [...]
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December 27, 2009
This year Vietnam’s movie industry has won new admirers for its innovation but the same cannot be said of television. Director Dang Nhat Minh (second from the left) received the Gold Lotus Award 2009 for “Don’t Burn”. 2009 was a year of high achieving movies with filmmakers achieving both critical and commercial success. Art house movies [...]
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