December 12, 2011
There are lessons to be learned from America’s complex relationship with Vietnam. Should we perceive the continued involvement of Americans with Vietnam years after the unpopular war as a massive collective guilty conscience or simply as a fascination with the culture, or perhaps both? Any way we look at the situation, American interests are [...]
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October 16, 2011
Tobacco industry poised to deploy ‘dirty tricks’ to increase business in third-world nations despite evidence aplenty of the substance’s harmful effects Natalka Proszak uses a cigarette box to block the wind as she lights a cigarette in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Now that smoking has declined in high-income nations, experts warn that the tobacco industry [...]
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October 15, 2011
A scene from Canh dong bat tan (Floating lives), a box-office hit adaptation of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s 2005 sensational short novel of the same name. ‘Floating lives’ was short-listed but not selected to represent Vietnam at next year’s Oscars. As the National Film Selection Committee was debating which of its three candidates – Canh [...]
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September 9, 2011
Experts argue that the plan is not feasible and ignores broader initiatives needed to eliminate the gap between haves and have nots A homeless man sleeps on Nguyen Tri Phuong Bridge connecting districts 5 and 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. The municipal authorities are considering a plan to wipe out begging in the [...]
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June 4, 2011
Vietnam has over three million poor families, accounting for 14.2 percent of the population, the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs reported at a conference held early this week. Â "Nearly poor" population, meanwhile, constituted 7.5 percent, or more than 1.6 million families, the ministry told the conference Monday. Â It said [...]
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April 29, 2011
The shop displays a collection of art and accessories donated by singers and actors. The owners of the unique store, including Truc Linh (in black), donate all proceeds to charity. It is difficult to have multiple parties in a transaction and close it with a win-win situation for all four of them, but the [...]
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April 16, 2011
Nguyen Quang, a Vietnamese-Swedish entrepreneur, with the Male Shooting Star certificate awarded by international auditing firm Ernst and Young in Sweden in November last year In early February this year, a leading Swedish daily, Göteborgs-Posten, used up a huge portion of its cover page for a photograph of Nguyen Quang, a Vietnamese-Swedish businessman. Inside were [...]
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April 6, 2011
Underage workers employed at a garment sweatshop in HCMC Three teenage girls, aged 15 to 16, returned home last week from brothels allegedly disguised as barbershops in the Central Highlands town of Buon Ma Thuot. Two of the girls were being returned for the second time. Last November, a non-governmental organization rescued the girls from [...]
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January 15, 2011
An economist argues that Vietnam needs to start taxing the rich and easing off the poor A cyclo driver reads a newspaper outside an electronics store in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Dr. Nguyen Minh Phong of the Hanoi Socioeconomic Research Institute says that taxes should be adjusted to meet the current economic reality. [...]
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December 12, 2010
 A woman and her son mending tires on Bui Thi Xuan Street, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City. Migrants have added to the poor population in Vietnam’s urban areas but, so far, their numbers have not been accurately been measured in poverty surveys, according to a recent study by Oxfam and ActionAid. A huge [...]
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