January 2, 2012
Hotels in Vietnam trade on the past to further their 21st century ambitions Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi hotel, which hosted well-known novelists such as Graham Greene and Somerset Maugham, is famous with classic French architecture After the sun sinks among the limestone karsts of Ha Long Bay, the stars come out, to pepper the [...]
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August 8, 2011
Vietnamese filmmakers should quit blaming the censors and learn to make scary movies without relying only on blood and guts Dustin Nguyen (L) and Tam Tit, two of the stars of Giua hai the gioi (Between two worlds) The teenage girls I spoke with after seeing Vu Thai Hoa’s Giua hai the gioi (Between [...]
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July 30, 2011
Saigon Asset Management Corp., run by a former managing director of Vietnam’s biggest fund manager, plans to start the country’s first distressed-assets fund as a credit crunch squeezes small to medium-sized firms. Saigon Asset Management will team up with the investment unit of Vietnam Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Industry & Trade, or VietinBank, the [...]
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July 23, 2011
Two policemen are classifying the seized pirated CDs. At the same time, the recording officials said they are fed up with government-issued authenticity stamps which have done little more than proving a financial and logistical burden. Prominent members of Vietnam’s recording businesses are requesting permission to issue their own authenticity stamps. The recording officials say [...]
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July 9, 2011
The Mekong Delta’s famed coastal crab preparation has caught on in major cities Rice porridge with ba khÃa is among the popular dishes in the Mekong Delta. The wetland-dwelling ba khÃa (three-striped crab) is most popular in the southern coastal provinces of Bac Lieu and Ca Mau where locals consider the creature a familiar [...]
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February 25, 2011
This spring, head for this highland town to sample tender wild veggies and fish fit for a king A dish of rau rung luoc (boiled wild forest vegetable) served with mam cua (crab paste sauce) at Thien Thanh Restaurant in Pleiku Pleiku, the wind-swept highland capital of the Central Highland province of Gia Lai, [...]
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February 7, 2011
Anti-Mubarak protesters shout slogans to show their support for the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Egypt, in front of the Egyptian embassy in Madrid February 6, 2011. President Hosni Mubarak’s new cabinet on Monday held its first full meeting since an uprising started nearly two weeks ago, with no concrete progress in talks with Islamists and an [...]
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December 22, 2010
Hot pots abound in the southern metro providing a full feast to vegetarians and meat-eaters alike Some diners add beef to their mushroom hot pots, but it can also serve as one of the few vegetarian indulgences here in Vietnam. There are few things in this world that you cannot put into a hot [...]
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November 20, 2010
Expert says shipping raw materials would be a waste of national resources Samples of rare earth compounds are displayed in the showroom of a Chinese company. China now ranks first in the world for rare earth mineral reserves while Vietnam has reserves of some one million tons. Vietnam should acquire the technology to process [...]
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January 31, 2010
A customer looks at products in the Catherine Denoual Maison Catherine Denoual moved from Paris to Ho Chi Minh City, formerly known as Saigon, without any plans or expectations, but sheâs since absorbed the burgeoning metropolisâ energy of growth and renewal like a sponge. Her husband found work here in 1995, and at the age [...]
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