Posts Tagged ‘ The Women ’

Village mat weavers keep flag flying 

January 9, 2012
Village mat weavers keep flag flying 

  Pho Trach Village in central Vietnam has for centuries been known for making traditional mats from sedge Nguyen Thi Chieu in Pho Trach Village is famous for making beautiful mats Pho Trach, a village in Thua Thien-Hue Province, is famous for its đệm, a kind of mat made from sedge. Weaving đệm has been [...]

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Vietnam surrogate mothers’ babies returned to Taiwanese parents 

December 16, 2011
Vietnam surrogate mothers’ babies returned to Taiwanese parents 

  Eleven babies born to Vietnamese women who were tricked into surrogacy in Thailand were sent to Taiwan to their blood parents Sunday, An Ninh Thu Do (Capital Security) reported. The children, including two pairs of twins, had been brought up at the Vietnam Women’s Union’s welfare center in Hanoi before being returned to the Taiwanese [...]

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Shorinji Kempo martial artists great fighters 

November 22, 2011
Shorinji Kempo martial artists great fighters 

Do Hong Ngoc (R) fights Yunita of Indonesia before winning the gold in the women's under-48kg kempo event on Sunday. Photo by Bach Duong. Vietnamese competitors in the Japanese martial art of shorinji kempo won three golds out of the seven possible on Sunday at the South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Do Hong Ngoc [...]

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Nine golds on Monday keeps Vietnam in third place at SEA Games 

November 22, 2011
Nine golds on Monday keeps Vietnam in third place at SEA Games 

Boxer Luong Van Toan (2nd, R) won the gold medal in the men's 81kg event. Winning nine gold medals on Monday helped to keep Vietnam in third place at the South East Asian Games being held November 11-22. Vietnam is ranked behind top-place host Indonesia and Thailand. The nine golds were grabbed by Vietnamese competitors [...]

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Vietnam jumps to second at SEA Games 

November 19, 2011
Vietnam jumps to second at SEA Games 

  Vietnamese athletes earned 12 gold medals at the SEA Games on Wednesday, raising the total to 56 golds and jumping to second place behind hosts Indonesia. The 12 gold medals on Wednesday came in swimming, billiards, vovinam, free style wrestling, shooting, chess and rowing. Billiards player Ma Minh Cam closed the day with a [...]

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Vietnam takes 17 golds after two days at SEA Games 

November 15, 2011
Vietnam takes 17 golds after two days at SEA Games 

21-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc (C) at the podium after finishing first in the women’s 20km walk; Photo by Kha Hoa. With 11 gold medals on Sunday, Vietnam has won a total of 17 gold medals after two days at the 26th South East Asian Games in Indonesia. Twenty-one-year-old Nguyen Thanh Phuc won the first gold [...]

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Vietnam wins first world gymastics medal 

October 22, 2011
Vietnam wins first world gymastics medal 

Phan Ha Thanh at the 2011 World Artistic Gymnastics Championships in Tokyo on Saturday. Phan Thi Ha Thanh took the bronze medal at the World Artistic Gymnastics Championships 2011 in the women’s vault event in Tokyo on Saturday. With the achievement, Ha Thanh has won a berth in the women’s singles vault event at the [...]

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Woman’s death at prosecutors' party an accident: local authorities 

September 3, 2011
Woman’s death at prosecutors' party an accident: local authorities 

The barge from which a woman fell into the river and drowned on August 20. Agencies in the southern province of Long An have concluded the death of a woman who drowned at a party attended by two top officials of the local prosecutors’ office was an accident, the Tuoi Tre reported Friday. The newspaper [...]

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Many Rubella-related abortions could have been avoided with better diagnosis: doctors 

August 8, 2011
Many Rubella-related abortions could have been avoided with better diagnosis: doctors 

A baby with cataract as a rubella syndrome at the Central Ob-Gyn Hospital in Hanoi. A woman in northern Vietnam spent three years undergoing treatment for infertility, and then had to have an abortion in the 12th week of her pregnancy after she caught the Rubella virus.   The woman is one of more than 1,000 [...]

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Women's group serves free dinner for needy in HCMC 

July 22, 2011
Women's group serves free dinner for needy in HCMC 

Five members of the dinner group (from the left) have their dinner ready to be delivered to poor people. For five years now, hundreds of poor people living in the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City have enjoyed the luxury of not being too concerned if their earning for the day is sufficient to have [...]

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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...