Posts Tagged ‘ Van Thao ’

Gasoline guzzling teen accepted by social welfare center 

September 4, 2011
Gasoline guzzling teen accepted by social welfare center 

Ho Van Thao (C), dubbed the "gasoline boy," and two officials of the Long An Province Social Welfare Center A deaf and mute Mekong Delta boy, whose gasoline guzzling habit made headlines a few months ago, has been admitted to a local social welfare center. Huynh Ngoc Dung, director of Long An Province Social Welfare [...]

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Gasoline addict gets help 

July 15, 2011
Gasoline addict gets help 

  Troubled Mekong Delta boy is brought to HCMC for testing and education (L to R) Dr. Nguyen Ngoc Quang, Ho Van Thao, a deaf and dumb boy who recently grabbed national headlines for his habit of stealing and drinking gasoline, his grandmother Ho Thi Sau and Nguyen Trong Tuong, a Vietnamese-Australian businessman, in front [...]

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The gasoline thief 

June 5, 2011
The gasoline thief 

  A Delta town struggles with the bizarre addiction of an abandoned boy Ho Van Thao (R) sucks on a gasoline as his grandmother looks on at their house in the Mekong Delta province of Long An Ho Van Thao, 16, was born deaf and dumb in a rural village in the Mekong Delta province [...]

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Old village gates ‘fossilized’ for art 

June 4, 2011
Old village gates ‘fossilized’ for art 

A ‘fossilized’ replica of Hanoi’s old utility pole at Vuong Van Thao’s exhibition Lang trong pho. Miniatures of Hanoi’s old village gates, suspended in blocks of resin, are on display at an exhibition Lang trong pho (Villages inside streets), at the French cultural center L’Espace. The unique exhibits are the work of artist Vuong Van [...]

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Farmers invited to tell their stories

May 18, 2009
Farmers invited to tell their stories

The cover of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s Canh Dong Bat Tan. LookAtVietnam – Amateur and professional writers across the country are being encouraged to participate in a national writing contest for farmers.Organised by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in co-operated with the Viet Nam Writers’ Association, the contest will award prizes in the three [...]

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Polluting brick kilns kill crops

March 11, 2009
Polluting brick kilns kill crops

LookAtVietnam – Farmers outside Ha Noi complain that smoke belching from brick kilns still ruin their paddy and threaten their health despite the persistent effort of district and commune officials to have them closed. Smoke from brick kilns in many communes in Thuong Tin District damages the health of farmers and ruins their rice paddy.“Hot [...]

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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...