December 21, 2011
 The last stake at the Chieng Mung Execution Grounds in the northern province of Son La At least one senior Party official and several police officials feel Vietnam should eventually do away with the death penalty, but for now, would-be executioners are relieved that a new law has chosen what they call a more [...]
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November 7, 2011
Retired stage artists are happy to be among their own in the autumn of their lives Then and now: Doan Thien Kim with a photograph taken during her heydays as a cai luong artist in HCMC several decades ago Former cai luong (reformed theater) artist Doan Thien Kim, 77, looks sad whenever she receives [...]
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October 30, 2011
A man and his three-year-old daughter who is being treated for hand, foot and mouth disease in the southern province of Dong Nai. Since early this month five major hospitals in Hanoi have caused quite a stir with a campaign asking their health workers to refrain from receiving money offered by patients or their families [...]
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August 28, 2011
An undated file photo of a patient being treated in the emergency room. When his brother was pronounced dead after an hour of treatment in the emergency room, 18-year-old Nguyen Van Dung went berserk and made good on a threat he’d made earlier. He took a knife and stabbed two doctors, one of them to [...]
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August 26, 2011
Tran Van Dai, 21, from the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, shows his scar after returning home from China to sell his kidney. People who illegally enter China to sell their kidneys may lose other internal organs without knowing it, a police official has warned. Senior Lieutenant-Colonel Nguyen Phu Thuong of Can Tho City [...]
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February 3, 2010
As the Lunar New Year holiday approaches, most students are preparing to return to their hometowns, though an increasing number of them are opting to stay in HCM City to make extra cash. Students look for job at a job center in Ho Chi Minh City. LookAtVietnam – As the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday [...]
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February 1, 2010
The My Lai massacre, one of the horrific war crimes perpetrated during the Vietnam War by US soldiers, is at the center of a film on redemption and moving ahead produced by UNESCO. Director Le Dan (L) talks with Saub Gérald, who plays the film’s main character, in front of a statue commemorating victims of [...]
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January 31, 2010
Director Le Dan (L) talks with Saub Gérald, who plays the filmâs main character, in front of a statue commemorating victims of the My Lai massacre The My Lai massacre, one of the horrific war crimes perpetrated during the Vietnam War by US soldiers, is at the center of a film on redemption and moving [...]
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November 26, 2009
Seeing an old beggar in Phu Nhuan District’s Tran Ke Xuong Street, Ngo Phuong turned around her motorbike and it appeared that she was going to give him money. Beggars on the street of HCM City. The city has begun a plan to move all beggars from streets and other public places.But rather than giving [...]
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September 29, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Harsher punishments should be meted out to those who exploit children, according to Le Thi Xuan Lang, deputy chief inspector of HCM City’s Department Nguyen Xuan Sang, a farmer in Quang Hai commune, Quang Xuong district, Thanh Hoa province teaches vocational training to homeless children. The number of underage children working to earn [...]
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