January 9, 2012
Vietnam's No.1 junior tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien. Photo by Kha Hoa. Vietnam’s No.1 junior tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien has jumped from the 121st position to the 67th spot in the world’s juniors rankings, according to the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The 17-year-old Vietnamese boy’s jump in the rankings was made possible by good performances [...]
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January 9, 2012
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 Äá»m, a kind of mat made from sedge. Weaving Äá»m has been [...]
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December 30, 2011
Garment workers are among those receiving low Tet, New Year bonuses this year Vietnam’s highest Tet and calendar New Year bonus for an individual this year as of December 27 was paid by a foreign-invested firm in Ho Chi Minh City at more than US$52,300. The company, which is not named, paid the country’s largest [...]
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December 22, 2011
Vietnam’s best young tennis player Nguyen Hoang Thien will be able to qualify for four Grand Slam contests next year when he is among the top 100 juniors. Thien was born in 1995 and is currently ranked 121st in the world’s junior ranking; but from the beginning of 2012, fifty-two junior players currently among [...]
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December 12, 2011
Many cement firms are deeply in the red after demand has plummeted due to the housing market slump while supply has soared because of the indiscriminate construction of several plants. Le Van Toi, head of the Ministry of Construction’s Construction Material Department, said: “Sales of many kinds of construction materials, including cement, have fallen [...]
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December 12, 2011
A man having a compass tattoo on Bui Vien Street. Ho Chi Minh City with the believing it could guide him and stop him from getting lost Not too long ago, they were more than a rarity, they were simply not there. Today, nearly 20 tattoo shops have registered in Ho Chi Minh City’s backpacker [...]
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November 21, 2011
Nguyen Hoang Thien serves during a match against SEA Games champ Filipino Cecil Mamiit in Indonesia on Thursday. Photo by Kha Hoa. Hoang Thien put up a good fight against defending champion Cecil Mamiit in the first round of the men’s singles tennis tournament at the South East Asian Games in Indonesia Thursday. The 16-year-old [...]
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November 19, 2011
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie (C) waves to the media as she stands with her adopted sons Pax Thien (R) from Vietnam and Maddox from Cambodia at a security check point before leaving Con Dao Island, off Vietnam’s southern coast on Wednesday (November 16) Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and her six children wrapped up their [...]
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November 17, 2011
Lam Thien's team won top prize for best movie in this year's "Canon 48 Hour Film Project". Photo by 57 Bananas. The story of a burglar who is trapped and pays dearly for his greed in the short film "The safe," by the team Lam Thien, has won the top prize of the second season [...]
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November 12, 2011
Vietnamese police said they are verifying information that a driver’s assistant was driving the container truck before filing charges in the tragic accident that killed 10 people and injured 21 on Monday, November 7 in a central province. Colonel Nguyen Van Lang, police chief in Ham Thuan Bac District, Binh Thuan Province, said the [...]
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