December 19, 2011
A red-lacquered and gold-trimmed wooden piece of cuon thu (horizontal lacquered board). The US Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) has granted US$30,000Â to the northern province of Thai Binh’s Provincial Museum for the restoration of wooden artifacts. Accordingly, the grant, which was presented by the US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear in a ceremony held [...]
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December 2, 2011
The valuable wooden house in Bac Giang Province in northern Vietnam An old wooden house in Vietnam northern province of Bac Giang has been offered VND70 billion (US$3.33 million).  The house is said to have been built with timber from sua (Dalbergia tonkinensis prain), an endangered species which has been banned from commercial use.  [...]
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September 5, 2011
Vietnamese authorities have rejected as "wrong" the accusation by a Britain-based organization that the country has been using illegal timber for furniture exports. The denial was made at a press briefing by officials from the Vietnam Timber and Forest Product Association and Vietnam Administration of Forestry from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. [...]
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July 4, 2011
A nearly-200-year-old house in Coc Thon Hamlet in the suburb of Hanoi The urbanization juggernaut has proved unstoppable in Vietnam, and evidence has been mounting about the inability of rural and suburban households to resist it, consigning beautiful homes with traditional architecture and long histories to extinction. The situation at Cu Da Village in [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tourists with Red Dao ethnic minorities at Ta Phin Village The sun was shining brightly over terraced hills dressed in brilliant emerald folds. Summer had finally arrived in Sa Pa, and so had we. The stunning mountains of Sa Pa lie roughly 200 miles from Hanoi, in Lao Cai Province. During the 19th century, [...]
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December 15, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Antique houses in different hamlets and villages have been gathered by small merchants, who then improve the houses for resale. According the house market owner Nguyen Duc Tri, the value of each house depends on the tastes of the buyers. There are four antique houses now ready for sale at the market. Piles of [...]
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November 20, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Vietnam’s wooden furniture manufacturers believe they can hit $3bn worth of exports next year That was the verdict of the secretary general of the Vietnam Woodwork and Forestry Products Association Nguyen Ton Quyen. Quyen affirmed that three billion dollars worth of exports for 2010 will be the target of the association’s members. “We still can [...]
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November 2, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The garment and wooden furniture sectors have targeted local markets with certain success to compensate for shrinking export turnovers caused by the current global economic woe. ietNamNet Bridge – The garment and wooden furniture sectors have targeted local markets with certain success to compensate for shrinking export turnovers caused by the current global [...]
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September 5, 2009
An empty lot where an old house in Hoi An was torn down to make way for a commercial building. The historic town of Hoi An in Quang Nam Province may soon no longer be that historic if its old homes continue to disappear to make way for tourism-fueled businesses. Houses in Hoi An sell [...]
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July 20, 2009
In the past few years, Quang Nam Province has invested more than VND2 billion to build and repair 76 guol (community houses) of the ethnic minorities Co Tu, Cor, Ca Dong and Gie Trieng in Nam Giang, Tay Giang and Dong Giang districts. LookAtVietnam – The communal house is the pride and joy for Co [...]
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