September 23, 2011
Spurned in two previous attempts, I used some cheap psychology to conquer a unique mountain After reaching the top of Da Bia Mountain, some lie down exhausted while others try to decipher the words on rocks believed to be etched by King Le Thanh Tong in 1471 For local residents, it has always been [...]
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September 20, 2011
Cod fish Brás style and chicken barbecued at Lisboa café Lisboa café, the first Portuguese restaurant in Vietnam, opened its doors in Ho Chi Minh City last week. After many years living in Vietnam, Pedro Castelo, a Portuguese man, married a Hanoian woman. Upon settling down in HCMC, Castelo opened a Portuguese restaurant on [...]
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August 9, 2011
A rock site in Thanh Hoa Province which supplied stone to the construction of Ho Dynasty Citadel A rock site in the northern province of Thanh Hoa has been discovered as the excavation area used for the construction of the Ho Dynasty Citadel, which was recognized as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in June. [...]
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June 6, 2011
 The palace was built with ancient Chinese-style architecture. Standing in the shade of tall, straight trees in the cloudy Dong Van Plateau is a century-old mansion, the former residence of a powerful family headed by a veritable Don in the early 20th century. The palace of the Vuong family, led by Vuong Chinh Duc, [...]
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April 26, 2011
A local radio reporter in Nghe An attempted to expose safety problems at the Nghe An quarry, last November, only to be ignored by newspapers and government officials Rescuers search for the bodies of quarry employees buried in a rockslide at the Len Co Mountain stone quarry in the central province of Nghe An [...]
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February 5, 2010
Nestled on the peak of a small hill in the center of the central coast city of Nha Trang, Chanh Toa Church, or Nui (Mountain) Church, is an imposing architecture, . . . A view of Nui Church in Nha Trang City.The church started construction in 1928 and was completed in 1933 by a French [...]
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January 31, 2010
Teenagers and younger children working in trade villages have no protection against occupational hazards Teenagers work on a stone sculpture at Ninh Van Village in the northern province of Ninh Binh. Researchers have warned that children and adolescents working in trade villages are being exposed to serious health hazards and are not receiving adequate medical [...]
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January 23, 2010
Lam Kinh was once the second capital of Dai Viet and home to a rich array of outstanding structures built by the posterior Le Dynasty. The youngest of three sons, Le Loi hailed from Lam Son in northern-Vietnam (Thanh Hoa province today), which was formerly a frontier of Dai Viet (Vietnam) and far from the [...]
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January 10, 2010
Though many know Vietnamâs past only through a half-century of scattered war relics, two millennia of artifacts are hidden throughout the country. A group of personal seals found in a Mekong Delta river. The stone and jade stampsrepresent Oc Eo culture, which flourished in the delta in the 1st-6th centuries.Vietnamâs thousands of years of recorded [...]
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December 19, 2009
Thousands of rocks in different shapes and sizes create the uniqueness of Ham Ho, also known as the “Forest of Stone”, in the central province of Binh Dinh. At the beach: Children enjoy swimming in a ‘natural swimming pool’ in Ham Ho.Located in Tay Son District, around 50km east from Quy Nhon City, Ham Ho [...]
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