January 23, 2012
Affluence and status-mongering could distort the meaning and purpose of a venerable custom A ceremony held to celebrate longevity for both parents in Hanoi “Kinh gia, gia de tuoi cho” – Respect the elders and you will live for as long as they do, goes a well-known Vietnamese saying. Hence, the older the elder, [...]
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January 18, 2012
After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in Hai Phong City’s Tien Lang District. Vuon’s relatives reportedly set mines and shot at police officials and soldiers revoking their farmland under a [...]
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January 13, 2012
Rubble of a house that was alleged to be wrongly destroyed by authorities in the northern port city of Hai Phong after a controversial land revocation on January 5. Questions remain unanswered at a Thursday press briefing regarding a controversial land revocation that led to a violent confrontation with farmers in the northern port city of Hai Phong. [...]
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January 9, 2012
Police deactivate mines set up at the entrance to the house of Doan Van Vuon in the northern city of Hai Phong. Six cops were shot in an encounter with Vuon's family on January 5. A man who allegedly shot six officers when his family was trying to stop police from revoking their land in [...]
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January 2, 2012
Alternative exhibition spaces are striving to develop in Vietnam 20 years after they first came on the scene An artist performing his work at the ‘Shaping a Line’ exhibition, opening from July 28 to September 8, at San Art in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo courtesy of SanArt. Artists are famous, if not notorious, [...]
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December 9, 2011
Japan’s lower house on Tuesday approved bilateral civil nuclear accords with Vietnam, Jordan, Russia and South Korea, the Kyodo News reported. The House of Representatives passed the accords, which will be effective in January 2012 if they are approved by the House of Councilors during the ongoing parliamentary session. The session will end on [...]
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December 2, 2011
The valuable wooden house in Bac Giang Province in northern Vietnam An old wooden house in Vietnam northern province of Bac Giang has been offered VND70 billion (US$3.33 million).  The house is said to have been built with timber from sua (Dalbergia tonkinensis prain), an endangered species which has been banned from commercial use.  [...]
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October 25, 2011
A Hanoian Renaissance Man has run Vietnam’s only ‘five-star’ pet hotel for 40 years A receptionist receives a pet dog to the hotel Yes, there’s a hotel for cats and dogs in Hanoi. And yes, it’s called Hotel Cho Meo (hotel for cats and dogs). Seventy-one-year-old Nguyen Bao Sinh has devoted the last 40 [...]
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October 14, 2011
A photo taken with a mobile phone showing judge Nguyen Thanh Mong leaving a guest house with a local's wife. A provincial judge in southern Vietnam has admitted going to a local guesthouse with a married woman, claiming he was offering her advice she sought on family problems. Nguyen Thanh Mong, deputy head of the [...]
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October 11, 2011
 Nguyen Thi Lanh, 106, and her youngest daughter, 71, from HCMC’s District 12. She and her husband, Huynh Van Lac, 110, have been certified by Vietnam Records Book as the country’s oldest couple. Huynh Thi Hoa, 71, says that ever since her parents reached the age of 90, during every Tet Festival their home [...]
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