November 23, 2011
An brown-colored stream flows into the Ben Nghe Canal in District 4, Ho Chi Minh City I live in an apartment in District 4 overlooking the Ben Nghe Canal and the fabulous new Vo Van Kiet Street. Every low tide I can see a very ugly orange waste stream flowing into the canal from a [...]
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November 16, 2011
Book-collectors are a rare breed, but young book lovers rarer still Minh Ngoc, an old book trader, stands in her shop of the same name on Vo Van Tan St., HCMC Priest Nguyen Huu Triet is a regular client at the local scrap dealers, always looking for old, rare books that most people would [...]
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November 13, 2011
Yvette Irvine learns how to embroider a silk picture at XQ Nha Trang Su Quan on October 28, 2011 Yvette Irvine heard about Vietnamese hand-embroidery before coming to this land, but like the rest of her party she only knew embroidering with a machine. She couldn’t imagine how Vietnamese women manually created those exquisite [...]
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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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September 10, 2011
NGO Loreto officer Stephanie Nicole Giles poses for a photo with the kids after giving them packs of gift at Vo Van Thoi Primary School in Hoc Mon District on Sept 7 The Loreto Vietnam-Australia Program (LVAP) donated notebooks and pens to over 1,600 kids at seven primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City on [...]
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August 14, 2011
Vo Van Thuong (R) at the appointment ceremony where he took office of the secretary of the Party Unit in the central province of Quang Ngai Thursday Vo Van Thuong, the first secretary of Ho Chi Minh Communist Youth Union, was appointed as the secretary of the Party Unity’s committee in the central province of [...]
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July 31, 2011
Hanoi-born artist unafraid to take traditional instrument to new spaces Vo Van Anh playing the dan tranh at a concert in Ho Chi Minh City last week. The San Francisco based artist said her biggest desire was to introduce the traditional zither to world friends and the young Vietnamese. Every time she takes the [...]
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May 15, 2011
Poor signage has added to the frustration of Ho Chi Minh City’s hellacious traffic conditions A total of 13 signs had been posted in a dense cluster at a section near Sai Gon Bridge that links Binh Thanh District and District 2 in Ho Chi Minh City Nguyen Huu Long was really upset when [...]
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January 17, 2010
Vo Van Tang says he tries to keep his art creative Collages made from palmyra leaves are becoming popular among art aficionados in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang. Artists use soldering irons to burn the leaves but the quality of the pictures depends very much on the skills of the artists.The more than [...]
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November 28, 2009
Only a month before his death, former PM Vo Van Kiet expressed concern about irregularities in the prosecution of Tran Ngoc Suong to the Can Tho City Party Committee. LookAtVietnam – Only a month before his death in June 2008, former Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet expressed concern about apparent irregularities in the prosecution of [...]
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