August 28, 2011
11-year-old Pham Thanh Ngoc gets her math homework checked by a local math teacher. The girl recently applied for a public high school Pham Thanh Ngoc did not drop out of school. She just refused to go to school, from kindergarten onward. However, Ngoc’s reluctance to attend school was not of the usual variety. It [...]
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July 9, 2011
Patients surround a health worker to ask for examination instructions at a hospital in Ho Chi Minh City. Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thi Kim Tien last week reported that, every year, Vietnamese citizens spend up to US$1 billion on treatment at hospitals in Singapore. Tien noted that while foreign medical expertise is not significantly [...]
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December 14, 2009
“White Horse, Gold Dragon” is a trenchant account of discrimination endured by Vietnamese who live in the Czech Republic. But it was not written by a Vietnamese author. So who did write it? The book “White Horse, Gold Dragon”. The story began when a 19-year-old Vietnamese girl who is living in the Czech Republic won a prestigious literary [...]
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June 27, 2009
Vietnam Writer Association’s Chairman Huu Thinh has instructed the association’s inspection board to probe the circumstances of a plagiarism charge against translator Dao Kim Hoa. The text of two poems by Lo Ngan Sun sent to the poem festival’s organizing board provided by Dao Kim Hoa. On June 25, Hoa met with inspectors to explain the [...]
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June 23, 2009
The public has been stirred by the scandal related to translator Dao Kim Hoa, a member of the Vietnam Writers’ Association, who has reportedly stole some poems by poets Huu Thinh and Lo Ngan Sun. Hoa said that it is a misunderstanding. Dao Kim Hoa talked with VietNamNet’s reporters. Hoa said that she was invited to [...]
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May 14, 2009
The golden girl of Vietnamese Wushu has had more than a fair share of ups and downs in life, and the former martial arts star is reticent about it. I have known Nguyen Thuy Hien for more than a decade, and have interviewed her many times, but did not feel comfortable calling her this time. [...]
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