January 18, 2012
Vo Duy Khang (L) and his friends at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia A 22-year-old Vietnamese student has authored a book on how to build better iPhone applications published by a US-based publishing house. Last November, Vo Duy Khang made his debut as a writer with the book Pro iOS Apps Performance Optimization, published by Apress. Written [...]
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January 2, 2012
Hotels in Vietnam trade on the past to further their 21st century ambitions Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, which hosted well-known novelists such as Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, is famous with classic French architecture After the sun sinks among the limestone karsts of Ha Long Bay, the stars come out, to pepper the [...]
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December 25, 2011
Part of the cover of the Vietnamese-Korean fairy tale collection, "The lazy Boy who Turns to a Cow," will be released in the middle of January 2012. A book release to introduce the second book in the collection “Vietnamese – Korean Fairy Tales” will take place at Hanoi’s National Library on December 28. The release [...]
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November 13, 2011
The illustrated book of Vietnamese slangs depicted on the Amazon website. After being withdrawn from local bookstores last month for its alleged racy content and possibly offensive language, a comedic picture book depicting local youth slang is having its e-version released internationally. Under a publishing transfer between Vietnam-based Nha Nam and Fine Arts Publishing Houses [...]
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October 31, 2011
Cover of the book. Photo by Lam Dien A new book titled Nguoi linh thuoc dia Nam Ky (Colonial soldiers in Southern Vietnam) gives a clear overview on the experience of being a native Vietnamese soldier serving the French colonial army in Indochina from 1861-1945.  The book was developed from author Ta Chi Dai Truong’s PhD thesis written in [...]
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September 1, 2011
A Bahnar woman A photography exhibition titled “The Bahnar Minority in Kontum” will show at L’Espace in Hanoi September 5 to 19. Â The exhibition will feature photos of the Bahnar Minority in the central highlands of Kontum, taken and selected from the work of local folk culturist Nguyen Dong Chi (1915-1984) and doctor Nguyen [...]
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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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August 14, 2011
Thu’s book, My Quest for Yummy Banh Mi in Vietnam, documents her discovery of different regional delicacies in Vietnam  “My belly and my heart are full of happiness and love now.” Vietnamese-Canadian Thu Nguyen did not believe she could actually write a book, but her fascination with one of the most common street food [...]
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August 3, 2011
A poster for the "Chihiro & Totto Chan" exhibition, which will run from August 9-31 in Hanoi. An exhibition of illustrations from Kuroyanagi Tetsuko’s best-selling Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window will open in Hanoi, on August 9. The event, co-held by the Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam and the Chihiro Art Museum will [...]
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May 28, 2011
Photo courtesy of www.vnphoto.net. The website just released a photo book called Sai Gon dep lam, and the above picture is part of the compilation. Members of VnPhoto, the local biggest online photography community, have introduced a photo book named Sai Gon dep lam (How beautiful Saigon is) and exhibited some selected works from May [...]
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Vietnamese student’s iPhone app book published by US firm
Vo Duy Khang (L) and his friends at Carnegie Mellon University, Australia A 22-year-old Vietnamese student has authored a book on how to build better iPhone applications published by a US-based publishing house. Last November, Vo Duy Khang made his debut as a writer with the book Pro iOS Apps Performance Optimization, published by Apress. Written [...]
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