December 19, 2011
Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle Fire has understandably dominated the e-reader buzz this holiday season. Not everyone, though, wants all the bells and whistles, or the bulk and expense, of a full-on color tablet. They just want an e-reader in order to, you know, read. For these folks, Amazon and Barnes & Noble Inc. have released [...]
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November 19, 2011
Life Heritage Resort Hoi An on Vietnam’s central coast has been placed among Asia’s top ten resorts for the second year by readers of Condé Nast Traveller. The magazine’s annual survey published this month ranks the resort in ninth spot, after its debut as one of Asia’s top ten resorts in the Readers’ Choice [...]
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November 13, 2011
A journalist looks at the ‘Newslist’ on the Guardian website on November 10. A British newspaper has thrown open its office doors, let the readers stride in, and invited them to peer over reporters’ shoulders — digitally, at least. The website of the left-leaning Guardian daily is publishing its ‘newslist’ — a schedule of stories [...]
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August 27, 2011
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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July 3, 2011
Young people offer books for free reading in public spaces Several people of different ages visit the book stall arranged on the tiled floors of a gazebo at the city’s Tao Dan Park by Nguyen Thu Hien (right) and her friends Nguyen Thi Hien is up at 6 a.m. on a Sunday, eager, like [...]
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January 22, 2011
Four hotels and resorts in Vietnam have made it onto Condé Nast Traveler’s 17th Annual 2011 Gold List of World’s Best Places to Stay. The winners were selected by the magazine’s 25,000 readers. The Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, the Life Heritage Resort Hoi An, the Evason Ana Mandara & Six Senses in Nha Trang [...]
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January 28, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Recently a reader submitted a letter that explained how teachers are afraid of Tet, because they do not have a lot of money to enjoy Tet. Nguyen Thuy Linh, a university lecturer in Hanoi wrote to VietNamNet that she studied hard and was rewarded for her efforts by landing a position as a [...]
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January 17, 2010
Following his two-day visit to Vietnam, Prof. Nye has left a key message: A country can increase its soft power by enhancing the trust of partners through legitimacy in its policies. Vietnam has golden opportunity to enhance “soft power”Top US mind says Vietnam could be an international success storyPM welcomes American thinkerLeading American thinker visits [...]
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December 14, 2009
The danger, high energy and excitement of hooves thundering as oxen pairs and their nai – who control them on the plough – race through muddy fields is frozen . . . Ox to the races: Tinh Than Quyet Dau (Competitive Spirit) by Nguyen Thi Nhung.This image from a traditional ox racing festival of the [...]
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December 2, 2009
Amazon.com said on Monday that its Kindle electronic book reader posted its best sales yet in November, as rivals struggled with their customer orders. Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos holds the new Kindle 2 electronic reader at a news conference in New York where the device was introduced, February 9, 2009. The Kindle 2, [...]
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