July 4, 2011
A nearly-200-year-old house in Coc Thon Hamlet in the suburb of Hanoi The urbanization juggernaut has proved unstoppable in Vietnam, and evidence has been mounting about the inability of rural and suburban households to resist it, consigning beautiful homes with traditional architecture and long histories to extinction. The situation at Cu Da Village in [...]
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December 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – “Be careful! Stay away from that direction, or else you will probably be hurt by pieces of thrown-out stones,” . . . A marble statue.“I am going to carve a lady who is sitting with her hair down,” Tien stopped beating the chisel for a while, explaining his work to visitors and pointing [...]
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December 7, 2009
Mekong Delta Provinces have joined the “race” to develop industrial zones (IZs). However, most IZ’s are empty or poorly tenanted, and the costs to the environment are becoming evident. The My Tho IZ in Tien Giang province lies on the bank of the Mekong’s upper branch. For nearly ten years, factories in this IZ have discharged [...]
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December 2, 2009
Newspaper readers around the world have been amazed by the story of a 55 year-old farmer who has been sleeping with his wife’s remains for five years. Le Van and the statue containing his wife’s bones. This man is Le Van. He lives in a small house with his three younger children and the remains of his [...]
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November 11, 2009
Questions are mounting following water discharged from the reservoir of Ba Ha hydro-power plant after typhoon Mirinae. The serious floods that followed covered a vast area, causing serious damages to Phu Yen province. The Ba Ha hydropower plant (photo: VNExpress). On November 2, when storm No. 11 or Mirinae hit the central province of Phu Yen, [...]
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September 20, 2009
Ancient Hoi An has been a favourite destination of tourists and art collectors. But lately the bloom is off the art market. LookAtVietnam – Ancient Hoi An has been a favourite destination of tourists and art collectors, attracted by its handsomely preserved buildings and bustling art scene. But lately the bloom is off the art market. Many painters [...]
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September 16, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Duong Thi Minh Huyen, a 27-year-old resident in Thanh Khe district, central Da Nang city, whose husband went missing after a typhoon three years ago, Tran Thi Tuyet’s family makes shoes for sale from a loan for poor women in Hoa Xuan ward in the central city of Da Nang.Her husband left on [...]
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September 5, 2009
An empty lot where an old house in Hoi An was torn down to make way for a commercial building. The historic town of Hoi An in Quang Nam Province may soon no longer be that historic if its old homes continue to disappear to make way for tourism-fueled businesses. Houses in Hoi An sell [...]
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August 28, 2009
Exploitation of sand has become a problem on all the Vietnam’s largest rivers. The local press reports that unregulated exploitation of sand demands national solutions. Dredging sand on the Red River. Major rivers in the northern region: The Red River flows from southwestern China through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin. The Red River begins in China’s Yunnan [...]
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August 8, 2009
Around 30km from Hai Duong city, Chi Lang Nam stork-night heron island occupies the middle of 4ha An Duong Lake. While other stork gardens like Lang Giang in Bac Giang province and Lap Thach in Vinh Phuc province are owned by individuals and facing difficulties in preservation, the stork island in Chi Lang Nam district, [...]
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