Posts Tagged ‘ The Seventh ’

Liem, Perez in close race for SPICE Cup 

October 29, 2011
Liem, Perez in close race for SPICE Cup 

Le Quang Liem, Susan Polgar and Georg Meier pose for a photo in the seventh round of the SPICE Cup in Texas. Photo by VnExpress. Chess ace Le Quang Liem and Cuban rival Leinier Dominguez Perez are locked in a race for the championship at the SPICE Cup in Texas, US. After a draw in [...]

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Tết Market 

January 15, 2011
Tết Market 

Bronze work at Chợ Viềng, an annual Tết market in the northern province of Nam Dinh. The approach of T ế t (Lunar New Year) is marked by an abundance of decorations in the street and traditional food in the shops. You can almost smell the coming Lunar New Year. For Vietnamese people, Tết is [...]

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Chicken soup for dead souls

September 11, 2009
Chicken soup for dead souls

People try to grab coins thrown from the first floor of Dat Vinh Phuoc Company on Hau Giang Street in Ho Chi Minh City Seventh lunar month is the time to feed hungry souls and have your bad luck snatched away. It’s about 10 a.m. on the sixteenth day of the seventh lunar month.Many people, [...]

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City taps vegetarians’ need for variety

September 7, 2009
City taps vegetarians’ need for variety

LookAtVietnam – It is easy to find vegetarian food shops or restaurants in HCM City since they boomed in the area over recent years. Herbivore’s hangout: Van Canh Restaurant in District 1 serves a wide selection of different vegetarian dishes.Previously, vegetarian food shops only were opened near pagodas and most of the main cooks were [...]

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BUSINESS IN BRIEF 24/5

May 24, 2009
BUSINESS IN BRIEF 24/5

Deal to minimise power shortages; Foreign growth fund backs Vietnamese software firm; Market ends week down on profit-taking; Chile boosts fruit exports to Vietnam; Venezuela cooperates with Vietnam to explore oil; Vietnamese tea’s trademark protected in 70 foreign markets Vietnamese tea’s trademark protected in 70 foreign marketsCurrently, Vietnamese tea products have been exported to 110 [...]

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Hoarding history

March 14, 2009
Hoarding history

A Mekong Delta farmer’s collection of antiques is worth a small fortune but he has no intention of selling any of them. Phu Khoi meets an obsessive and possessive collector There are no tourist sites in Trang Tho I, a small hamlet in Can Tho city, but every three or four days, strangers inevitably drift [...]

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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...