December 22, 2011
A young girl in northern Vietnam. Ethnic minorities account for 13 percent of Vietnam's population, but 44.4 percent of the country's poor. © Alisa Tang/IRIN. For more than a decade, Nguyen Thi Quyen’s ethnic minority students in Lao Chai village primary school would stare at her blankly, unable to respond to her questions. As the [...]
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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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September 3, 2011
Visitors are seen touring inside the temple of Literature in Hanoi The more I read about how Vietnam wants more tourists visiting the country, the more I wonder why the private and government entities don’t do more. For instance, hotels don’t have showrooms, private tour companies don’t encourage local businesses to have cultural shows and [...]
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July 17, 2011
Occupational therapist goes native to help special children in Vietnam Takao Maiko, 27, plays with children at the Daycare class of the Ho Chi Minh City’s Orthopedic and Rehabilitation Center for physical disabled children “Open it, baby,” Takao Maiko tells the seven- year-old polio-stricken boy in slow, but clear Vietnamese. Nothing happens. The little [...]
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May 2, 2011
A traffic patrolman pulls over a foreigner in the south-central beach town of Phan Thiet. Police have warned against an increase in traffic violations by foreign drivers in tourist hotspots, during the past few months. Police in the beach towns of Phan Thiet and Vung Tau have decried a rising trend of serious accidents caused [...]
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January 25, 2010
VietNamNet will provide portraits of the 12th National Assembly deputies through a new column: “Discover Vietnamese Congressmen”. Readers are invited to send questions to them at evnn@vietnamnet.vn. Thuyet was born in 1948 in Thai Nguyen, but his hometown is Hanoi. He graduated from the Philology Faculty of Hanoi University in 1969 and received his doctorate from [...]
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December 20, 2009
Thien and his students made paper lanterns, while celebrating the Mid Autumn Festival.VietNamNet Bridge – No table, no chair, no blackboard, no chalk. It is hard to imagine how it could be a class. But it was – a class of a blind teacher. Students sit down in the yard, and put books on their [...]
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December 5, 2009
After losing her ability to talk, Le Thi Thu Xuong remained strong and worked hard to become a teacher for deaf students. Le Thi Thu Xuong (second) left) teaches sign language at the club.LookAtVietnam – After losing her ability to talk, Le Thi Thu Xuong remained strong and worked hard to become a teacher for [...]
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December 4, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Vietnamese parents who send their children to ‘international schools’ dream they will gain the skills there to become ‘world citizens.’ Students of Horizon International School in HCM City are learning Vietnamese“I was astonished to realize that many of my nine and ten year-old students can speak English very well, but find it [...]
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August 11, 2009
British training firm Speak First instructor Steve Bavister (L) conducts a class at the Indian School of Integrated Learning in Mumbai on August 5. The traditional image of finishing schools is of the Swiss Alps, where elegant young ladies from well-to-do families learn to walk, talk and make conversation before entering polite society. Now India [...]
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