August 27, 2011
Guenter Giesenfeld and Marianne Ngo, who won a notable award in Germany this year for their translation of a short story collection by Vietnamese author Le Minh Khue I first met Professor Guenter Giesenfeld at an international conference on promoting Vietnamese literature more than a year ago. Our paths crossed again after Le Minh [...]
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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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July 14, 2011
Young overseas Vietnamese at Vietnam Summer Camp, which began Friday, in Hanoi. One hundred and fifty young Vietnamese expatriates from 30 countries and territories began an annual summer camp in Hanoi on Friday.  This year’s Vietnam Summer Camp will take the participants on a tour throughout Vietnam and stop at national historical and cultural monuments like Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum in Hanoi, [...]
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July 3, 2011
Participants of the Vietnam Summer Camp 2009 Many young Vietnamese expats will join this year’s Vietnam Summer Camp 2011, to be held in July in six localities across the nation, according to the State Committee for Overseas Vietnamese Affairs. At least 150 young delegates from nearly 30 countries and territories worldwide have been invited to [...]
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November 28, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – DJs find a transformative canvas in the nightclubs of modern Ho Chi Minh City. The streets have changed. Noodle shops and beer shacks have been replaced with chic cafes and posh nightclubs. Newly-affluent youth are taking less moonlit walks in the park and spending more time dancing the night away at the city’s [...]
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November 27, 2009
DJs find a transformative canvas in the nightclubs of modern Ho Chi Minh City. The streets have changed.Noodle shops and beer shacks have been replaced with chic cafes and posh nightclubs. Newly-affluent youth are taking less moonlit walks in the park and spending more time dancing the night away at the cityâs swank new clubs.With [...]
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October 17, 2009
Vietnamese students play football in a physical exercise lesson at the Canadian International School in Ho Chi Minh City. An international school in Ho Chi Minh City ensures its local students learn the Vietnamese language. Fifth grader Ngo Duc Minh, born and raised in Vietnam, said he preferred English to Vietnamese, simply because he was [...]
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July 30, 2009
Vo Hoang Yen, Vietnamâs representative at this yearâs Miss Universe pageant, which will be held in the Bahamas in August. Representing Vietnam at the Miss Universe 2009 pageant, Vo Hoang Yen says she hopes to change the worldâs perception of young Vietnamese women. Charismatic beauty queen Vo Hoang Yen says sheâs ready to make Vietnam [...]
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July 13, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Increasing numbers of Overseas Vietnamese are returning to their ancestral homeland to rediscover their Vietnamese cultures. Returning overseas Vietnamese at Chu Lai Airport in the central province of Quang Nam.While these people were born abroad, their Vietnamese ancestry and family culture continues to play an important part in their lives.American Vietnamese Nhan Nguyen [...]
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June 30, 2009
Sex workers wait for clients on a street at Geylang, a red-light district, in Singapore April 9 Less than three years ago, a young Vietnamese woman fell to her death from the 10th floor of a block of apartments in Singaporeâs Toa Payoh District. Twenty-four-year-old Pham Thi Truc Linh, who worked at a nightclub called [...]
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