December 19, 2011
A photo on AsianScientist showing a mother and her baby. A new mass media campaign in Vietnam asks mothers to feed their babies early and exclusively with breast milk for at least the first six months. A mass media campaign launched in Vietnam December 14 asks parents to ensure exclusive and continued breastfeeding during the early part of [...]
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December 6, 2011
 The Tay Ho Weekend Market near Hanoi’s West Lake is a big hit with both expats and locals for its clean foods, books, and a range of other stuff Located in a small lane near breezy West Lake in Hanoi, the Tay Ho Weekend Market has for two years been a popular place [...]
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November 16, 2011
American student’s singing ambitions rekindled by the sound of Vietnamese Singing and teaching in Vietnam has not made Kyle Cochran (aka Kyo York) rich, but his life is better than ever. Photo courtesy of Kyo York When he first set foot in the Mekong Delta as a volunteer to teach English under a Princeton [...]
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October 7, 2011
Vo Van Ut Deo (R), a former senior police official in the Mekong Delta province of Soc Trang, was sentenced to two years in jail after his subordinates had beat up a detainee to death. The Ministry of Public Security has called for surveillance, preventive measures and strict measures against wrongdoings by police officials in [...]
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July 7, 2011
Many stock investors have incurred losses over the past two years The government will seek approval at the National Assembly’s upcoming session to grant tax breaks to low income people as well as stock investors through the end of 2012. Deputy Finance Minister Do Hoang Anh Tuan confirmed the decision at a press briefing late [...]
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July 4, 2011
Soldiers and civilians risk their lives in removing unexploded bombs that continue to kill thousands decades after the Vietnam War Soldiers remove an unexploded bomb out of a rice field in the Mekong Delta in April Nguyen Van Cuong quit his job as bomb deactivator two years ago, but constantly thinks of the “meaningful [...]
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June 11, 2011
Handicrafts carved from thuy tung are publicly advertised online and sold throughout the country. Nguyen Van S is near tears as he recalls the day when hundreds of thuy tung (Glyptostrobus Pensilis or water pine) disappeared from his property. “I owned many,” he said. Van S said a massive stand of the trees had remained [...]
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June 6, 2011
Vietnam needs some 3,000-5,000 field-trained experts by 2020. The country is scheduled to build 14 nuclear power plants, each of which needs at least 300 field-trained engineers. Vietnam hopes to resolve its power shortages by developing a series of nuclear plants. Since the Fukushima debacle, a number of safety concerns have arisen. But Dr. Tran [...]
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February 23, 2011
A freight ship docks alongside a container wharf in Tokyo port. Japan posted its first trade deficit in almost two years last month, officials said Wednesday, amid rising commodity prices and weak demand for its exports ahead of China’s Lunar New Year holiday. The finance ministry said exports, a key driver of Japan’s economy, rose [...]
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January 16, 2011
Jenni Trang Le, 31, has participated in the making of seven Vietnamese films although she has only lived in Vietnam for two years. A symbiotic relationship has emerged the Vietnamese film industry and Vietnamese-American professionals. While the local industry has received a huge fillip from the Viet kieu (overseas Vietnamese) pros, who have brought in [...]
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