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A huge volume of used goods from the ‘rich countries’ seeps into Vietnam across its border with Cambodia. The trade in seconds, irregulars and second-hand clothing, fabrics and electronic gear, unsanctioned but clearly tolerated, has flourished since the early days of ‘doi moi.’ The ‘cemetery goods’ at Chau Long market In Chau Doc, a city [...]
Co Bo is an ancient art of playing drums, which developed to serve the kings of the Nguyen Dynasty. This special musical performance has been maintained by people in a northern village, about 750km from the old imperial city of Hue in central Vietnam. Bump, bump, bump …the rhythmic sound echoes hollowly as a group [...]
Restoring folk festivals through the use of contemporary art is an audacious project being implemented by the Institute for Culture and Art of Vietnam. Vu Nhat Tan Phuong Vu Manh Pham Van Truong Interactive, modern styles of contemporary art will be highlighted at a ceremony of the Lanh Giang Temple Festival in the northern city [...]
A group of online writers have gathered to introduce an online literary website at vanhocmang.net. Writer Trang Ha (left) at the launching ceremony of vanhocmang.net. Writer Trang Ha, who came up with the idea, said that at the beginning, vanhocmang.net would post literary works written by bloggers of Yahoo!360o. Yahoo!360o closed on July 13. In [...]
The Obama administration on Friday called on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to grant amnesty to two female American journalists who were sentenced to 12 years in prison for “hostile actions” against the country. File photo shows the two U.S. women reporters held by the DPRK. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) “The two journalists and their families have expressed great [...]
Six software solutions received the “Best IT Solutions” Cup and 33 information and communications technology services and products won “Best ICT Products” awards given away by PC World Viet Nam magazine at a ceremony on Wednesday. While the awards reaffirmed users’ confidence in Vietnamese software solutions, there was an increase in the number of votes [...]
Vietnamese version of Facebook . he social networking site Facebook, which has over 300,000 Vietnamese subscribers, recently released a Vietnamese version, with all the preparation for the version done by Vietnamese volunteers. All the volunteers came to the work with a passion to create a virtual space for Vietnamese to relax after work, especially when the [...]
The US State of Maryland will set up representative offices in Hanoi and HCM City to attract Vietnam’s investment to the state and support its companies that do business in the country, according to the administration of the State. The offices will be managed and operated by the export-import company Meiwah International Holdings based in [...]
Vietnam and Thailand have agreed to promote bilateral friendship and all-round cooperation, especially in economics, investment, trade, culture, education-training, health care, science-technology and tourism. Party leader Nong Duc Manh (R) receives the Thai PM in Hanoi. The agreement was reached during high-level talks in Hanoi on July 10 between Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and [...]
Thailand’s Bangkok city has 5000 food safety inspectors while Vietnam’s largest city — HCM City – has only four inspectors, said the HCM City Health Department chief, to explain the poor food hygiene and safety control situation in the city. Lack of staff, it is hard for HCM City to control food hygiene and safety. [...]