Posts Tagged ‘ The Chu ’

War veterans on mission to recover MIA

August 2, 2009
War veterans on mission to recover MIA

The country celebrates the Day for War Martyrs and Invalids annually on July 27. Many efforts are being made all over the country to help families of war martyrs find remains of their family members. Soldiers of Kon Tum Province and family members of war martyrs search for the remains of fallen soldiers.LookAtVietnam – The [...]

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Rice and everything nice

June 20, 2009
Rice and everything nice

Every aspect of the Rice Goddess ceremony, Mnhum Yang Potai, is highly symbolic.  Chu Ru women dance after honoring the Rice Goddess in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong“Red symbolizes sweat, blood, and the energy needed to grow rice,” says Ya Hang, a 53-year old leader of the ethnic Chu Ru community in a [...]

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Rice and everything nice

June 20, 2009
Rice and everything nice

Chu Ru women dance after honoring the Rice Goddess in the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong Every aspect of the Rice Goddess ceremony, Mnhum Yang Potai, is highly symbolic. “Red symbolizes sweat, blood, and the energy needed to grow rice,” says Ya Hang, a 53-year old leader of the ethnic Chu Ru community in [...]

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Improper infrastructure poses biggest threat to forests, biodiversity

June 14, 2009
Improper infrastructure poses biggest threat to forests, biodiversity

LookAtVietnam – The Indochina program manager of Bird Life International has warned inappropriate infrastructure development is the biggest threat to special-use forests and biodiversity in Vietnam. The board reads forest destruction is forbidden but many trees are chopped down to make room for a hydropower project in the Chu Yang Sin National Park.Jonathan Charles Eames [...]

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Dowry, other customs shake up ethnic minority families

May 20, 2009
Dowry, other customs shake up ethnic minority families

Two children search for snails and crabs in the wild. Sixty-three-year-old TuTeng MaBao has to pick crabs and sell them to buy rice for her daily meals. The Chu Ru woman has sold all her rice fields to pay the dowry to have her four daughters married.It is a tradition in this ethnic minority community [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 14/4

April 14, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 14/4

Plastic maker pays 30 percent dividend; Auto maker targets two new models at youth; French company joins local bank to assist businesses; Singaporean bank to open office in Vietnam  The Chu Lai Truong Hai Auto Assembly & Manufacture Plant Monday unveiled two new models, Cerato and Soul. The company, based in the Chu Lai Open [...]

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HCMC’s District 8 to pull down slums in gentrification effort

April 11, 2009
HCMC’s District 8 to pull down slums in gentrification effort

A slum in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8. More than 2,600 homes in slums in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8 will be cleared by the end of next year as part of efforts to spruce up the locality, district officials announced Friday. At a meeting with city authorities Friday, Nguyen Thanh Chung, chairman [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...