Posts Tagged ‘ The Thao ’

Vietnam’s dai gia on display 

January 18, 2012
Vietnam’s dai gia on display 

  An overview portray of 12 Vietnamese big chesses, to open on January 17 in Hanoi A special exhibition featuring paintings of dai gia, a Vietnamese term used to indicate a rich person or “big cheese,” will run from January 17 to February 4 in Hanoi, The Thao & Van Hoa newspaper reported. Titled Dai [...]

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Alternate spaces, mainstream problems 

January 2, 2012
Alternate spaces, mainstream problems 

  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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Free to ‘distort’ 

July 15, 2011
Free to ‘distort’ 

  Viet kieu from France presents Vietnamese music with a jazzy twist Nguyen Le performs in the Que nha program in Hanoi this week French jazz guitarist Nguyen Le does not speak any Vietnamese, but Vietnam haunts him almost all the time. He remembers that during the Lunar New Year festival (Tet) in 1994, he [...]

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Silk painting in terminal condition 

November 8, 2010
Silk painting in terminal condition 

Long me (Mother’s heart), a silk painting by Le Pho. Low market demand and high technical requirements are discouraging Vietnamese artists from taking up silk painting. At a time when many arts are enjoying a resurgence based on increasing prosperity and greater market demand, it was a very drastic and shocking thing to say. Famous [...]

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Overseas Vietnamese gather in Hanoi for Tet get-together

February 7, 2010
Overseas Vietnamese gather in Hanoi for Tet get-together

LookAtVietnam – About 1,000 overseas Vietnamese who have returned for lunar New Year celebrations offered incense at the Thang Long Royal Citadel in Hanoi on February 6. Hanoi Mayor Nguyen The Thao called on overseas Vietnamese to contribute to the homeland.Many of them are residing in the US, Australia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Norway, Thailand [...]

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Lack of family values, not just poverty, behind street children

December 7, 2009
Lack of family values, not just poverty, behind street children

LookAtVietnam – Experts say bad parenting and the changing face of a modernizing society have created urban Vietnam’s street children.  Nguyen Khac Long, 12, now feels safe and secure at the Children’s House in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8, where he can study and interact with his peers. It is a far cry from two [...]

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Lack of family values, not just poverty, behind street children

December 6, 2009
Lack of family values, not just poverty, behind street children

Two shoeshine boys in downtown HCMC. Experts say bad parenting and the changing face of a modernizing society have created urban Vietnam’s street children. Nguyen Khac Long, 12, now feels safe and secure at the Children’s House in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8, where he can study and interact with his peers.It is a [...]

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Hanoi officials told to curb overseas trips

November 23, 2009
Hanoi officials told to curb overseas trips

The Hanoi People’s Committee has asked officials at all levels to restrict overseas business trips from now to the end of 2010 to save money. Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao. According to an urgent dispatch signed by Hanoi Chairman Nguyen The Thao, Hanoi officials are requested not to go abroad except in [...]

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Hanoi expansion to develop Red River, satellite cities

October 27, 2009
Hanoi expansion to develop Red River, satellite cities

LookAtVietnam – The Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao talked with VNExpress about the capital city’s planning. Hanoi’s Chairman Nguyen The Thao. VietNamNet Bridge – The Chairman of the Hanoi People’s Committee Nguyen The Thao talked with VNExpress about the capital city’s planning. Experts surprised by audacity of proposed Hanoi master planPM wants [...]

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Classical drama seeks ways to survive

October 17, 2009
Classical drama seeks ways to survive

Tuong (classical drama) is part of the traditional spiritual heritage of the nation, but with a lack of spectators the art is in danger of falling by the wayside. LookAtVietnam – Tuong (classical drama) is part of the traditional spiritual heritage of the nation, but with a lack of spectators the art is in danger [...]

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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...