Jan
20

Vietnam’s black market sells ‘lucky money’

  With the Vietnamese New Year approaching, the scramble for low-denomination currency notes has begun. People around the country want the bills, crisp and new if possible, to give “lucky money” to children and older people, a traditional custom during Tet …

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Jan
19

Vietnamese student’s iPhone app book published by US firm

  A 22-year-old Vietnamese student has authored a book on how to build better iPhone applications published by a US-based publishing house.   Last November, Vo Duy Khang made his debut as a writer with the book Pro iOS Apps Performance …

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Jan
18

New HCMC theater for traditional music aimed at tourists

A special theater dedicated to exposing tourists to traditional Vietnamese folk music, will open in February in Ho Chi Minh City, according to a January 10 press conference. According to investor Huynh Anh Tuan, director of Idecaf Theater and the …

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Dec
29

Vietnamese wife murdered by Taiwanese husband (allegedly…)

  Authorities in Taiwan arrested a man Monday on suspects that he murdered his former Vietnamese wife soon after divorcing her who failed to give him a son. Pham Thi Thanh Truc, 29, was killed and thrown into the sea with …

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Dec
28

Facebook Creator Mark Zuckerberg Vacations in Vietnam

Mark Zuckerberg may be welcome in Vietnam, even if his brainchild Facebook is not. The Facebook founder is vacationing in the communist country that blocks its citizen from using hissocial networking site. According to The Associated Press, Zuckerberg, his longtime girlfriend Priscilla Chan and a group of friends arrived in …

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Dec
22

Six strange diseases discovered in Vietnam in 2011

VietNamNet Bridge – A 26-year-old woman who looks like an old lady, a man with a 80-kg tumor on his leg, a man whose body covered by hair… are among odd diseases detected in Vietnam this year. Girl turns into …

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Dec
15

Francis Renaud, au nom du père

Après le drame, le fils a d’abord refait sa vie au Vietnam avant d’écrire sur son père. Au moment où était tourné le film d’Olivier Marchal, Les Lyonnais, sur ces braqueurs liés au SAC qui pourchassait le juge Renaud. “Il y …

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Dec
15

More forest rangers arrested in central Vietnam truck tragedy

Another two forest rangers have been apprehended for their involvement in the timber truck overturn that killed 10 people and injured five others last week in the central province of Nghe An. Local police said Phan Si Tuan, chief of …

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Dec
15

Buried temple yields Nguyen dynasty artifacts in central Vietnam

  A treasure trove of Nguyen Dynasty (1802-1945) artifacts have been found during the excavation of a temple in the north central province of Ha Tinh.   Tran Hong Dan, director of the Ha Tinh Museum of Ha Tinh Province, said …

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Dec
12

Brazen timber smuggling: Deadly truck accident opens can of worms

Forest rangers in the central Vietnamese province of Nghe An said the timber seized from a truck which overturned on a highway Wednesday, killing 10 men in it and injuring five others, had been smuggled. The vehicle overturned on National Highway …

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