January 18, 2012
A bunch of young Hanoi cyclists have apparently mainstreamed the phrase “pain in the ass” by naming their club à Mông, literally meaning “buttock pain.” Buttock Pain was founded in 2008 after a group of cycling lovers met on the web site ttvnol.com and organized a successful trip to Truc Lam Tay Thien Zen [...]
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December 3, 2011
Thai women in the northern mountainous provinces perform xoe vong (dancing in circle) Without xoe, rice will not grow Without xoe, the flower will wither Without xoe, boys and girls will not become couples The poem eloquently expresses the importance of xoe in the daily life of the Thai people who populate the remote [...]
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October 9, 2011
The debris of houses hit by a landslide in Yen Bai Province Wednesday night Four houses were buried and two people killed by a major landslide in Vietnam’s northern mountainous region Wednesday night, local police said. Â The incident happened at almost midnight when nearly 500 cubic meters of land and rock from around 10 [...]
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July 7, 2011
An ancient tea tree in Lao Chai, the northern province of Ha Giang  Vietnam boasts a vast wealth of ancient tea trees that are still waiting to be discovered, developed and protected.  According to scant mention in historic materials and scientific research, ancient tea trees are mainly located in the northern highland provinces of [...]
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June 26, 2011
Typhoon Haima inundates paddy fields in Nam Dinh Province. Eighteen people were killed and 14 others are still missing as tropical storm Haima hit central and northern provinces, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Prevention said Saturday. The typhoon left 60 people injured, according to the committee. The northern city of Hai Phong had [...]
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March 19, 2011
A man fishes from an exposed mud flat on the Red River in Hanoi. Riparian communities have complained that the shrinking waterway has become increasingly shallow and polluted in recent years. For thousands of years, poor subsistence-level communities have survived on the bounty of the Red River. In the past year or so, their [...]
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December 20, 2009
Catholics Solidarity Committee celebrates Christmas; Vietnam, Canada boost educational cooperation; PM bans demolition of Hanoi old villas; Vietnam to punish spouses for sexual violence Catholics Solidarity Committee celebrates Christmas The Vietnam Committee for Solidarity of Catholics (VCSC) held a solemn ceremony in Hanoi on December 18 to mark the upcoming Christmas.Priest Nguyen Cong Danh, VCSC [...]
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December 17, 2009
A group of Yen Bai seventh-graders went missing after falling into the Red River in the northern province on Sunday, a local official said. The accident happened when nine students from Tran Yen Districtâs Co Phuc Town Primary School were playing on a sand bank, said Nguyen Khanh, vice chairman of Tran Yen Peopleâs Committee.One [...]
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December 14, 2009
The symbol of the Thang Long – Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary will be put on the peak of Fansipan, Vietnam’s highest mountain, as part of the “Returning to Roots 2010” tourism program. LookAtVietnam – The symbol of the Thang Long – Hanoi’s 1000th anniversary will be put on the peak of Fansipan, Vietnam’s highest mountain, as [...]
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October 28, 2009
LookAtVietnam – National Assembly deputies yesterday, October 27, urged the Government to put more focus from the economic stimulus package on support for rural areas. Work proceeds on the Seo Leng-Nam Ngap Road in Sin Ho District in the northern province of Lai Chau, a project aimed at improving access to remote rural areas.All deputies [...]
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