December 19, 2011
Le Van Thuong, head of the family that owns the garden with five newly anointed National Heritage trees, poses in front of the hollowed trunks of one of them He was offered US$300,000 and more for his garden with old trees, but the owner was not tempted. Le Van Thuong is now the owner [...]
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December 17, 2011
Australian students build a house for a poor man in Vinh Long Province in southern Vietnam early December It seems like an unusual way for Australian teenagers to spend money they earned from part-time jobs, but 13 of them recently used their savings to attend special tours in southern Vietnam where they built houses [...]
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December 16, 2011
Lack of exercises is a reason for early libido absence in Vietnam Gender health experts warned about the absence of sexual desire among Vietnamese youths due to an increase in physiological diseases. Doctor Tran Quan Anh, chairman of Vietnam Gender Medicine Association, said at a recent sexual health conference in Ho Chi Minh City [...]
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December 9, 2011
Canal carrying water from one of the ancient wells to farms in Gio Linh District Quang Tri Province’s best known tourist attractions are DMZ tours, Cam Lo Market, and relics of an uprising led by a man who was crowned as King Ham Nghi in 1885, becoming the eighth emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty. But [...]
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November 26, 2011
Skin ulcers on a person in central Vietnam. The condition has not been named and its cause is suspected to be plant protection chemicals. Dermatologists suggested that strange skin ulcers affecting many people in central Vietnam is caused by plant protection chemicals.  The conclusion was made by experts at the Vietnam Central Dermatology Hospital after [...]
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November 12, 2011
Singer Van Mai Huong The “Zing Music Awards” kicked off its second season on November 7. The awards honor local singers and bands that are online listeners’ favorites, as measured by votes and downloads of top 10 albums, songs and video clips from November 7 until January on the website http://awards.zing.vn. Awards will be given [...]
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October 21, 2011
Nigerian goalkeeper Bassey Akpan has signed a two-year contract with V-League side Hoang Anh Gia Lai. Nigeria’s national football team goalkeeper Bassey Akpan on Thursday signed a one-year contract with V-League side Hoang Anh Gia Lai (HAGL). Bassey Akpan, who is 27 years old and stands 1.86 meters tall, won the Under-17 African Football Championship [...]
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July 31, 2011
Bruce Weigl (L, author of this article) and Trung Trung Dinh, a Vietnamese novelist. For the past twenty years, I’ve continued to translate Vietnamese poetry and introduce Vietnamese literature to my American college students. During that time, I’ve become aware of Mr. Trung Trung Dinh’s life – a highly regarded writer who is considered one [...]
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July 18, 2011
Young Vietnamese gymnasts from poverty-stricken backgrounds find out that gold medals don’t pay the bills Dinh Phuong Thanh (L) and Van Anh proud with gold medals they won at the Southeast Asian Student Gymnasium Competition that ended in Singapore on July 7 Not all members of the victorious Vietnamese gymnastics team were ecstatic upon [...]
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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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