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Around 550 items and pictures on Vietnam’s sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) islands are displayed at the “Quang Ngai –Sea and Island Culture Heritage” exhibition in Quang Ngai province. The exhibition opened on August 29 and will last until September 2. A retired official is reading quotations from ancient books about [...]
While the majority of students are busy preparing for the new academic year, many other students are still weeping because they still don’t know where to go. Getting overloaded, schools refuse students A lot of parents gathered some days ago in front of the Phan Van Tri Primary School in district 1 in HCM City, [...]
The Ministry of Planning and Investment has submitted to the government, a golf-course development plan to 2020, under which the total number of golf courses in Vietnam will rise to 118. The K’Ren golf course at present. However, there is a fact that many licensed golf course projects are idle though thousands of hectares of [...]
VietNamNet’s annual “Everlasting Things” concert is also accompanied with an exhibition. This year, it will be supported by the photo exhibition of conductor Le Phi Phi. In 2009, the first “Everlasting Things” concert was accompanied by old, valuable pictures of Hanoi in the past. In 2010, it was the collection of colorful paintings by famous [...]
Women in Vietnam are raising the traditionally forbidden topic of domestic violence. AFP Women sell bread on a street in downtown Hanoi, March 10, 2010. Women’s groups in Vietnam are deploying a new strategy to highlight the growing problem of wife battering—exhibiting to the public objects used by the abusers. Among the objects shown at [...]
The moon cake market for this year’s mid-autumn festival has made an earlier start over last year with higher prices due to rising input costs and soaring prices of food, rice and cooking gas. Many well-known bakeries including Kinh Do, Dong Khanh, Bibica and Thanh Long have started production for the moon festival since mid [...]
The Vietnam Food Association (VFA) Friday rejected the rumor that some Chinese traders have recently purchased Vietnam’s rice at large quantities and illegally exported it back to China. VFA also required exporters to ensure their rice reserves to stabilize domestic prices. Speaking at the meeting on rice exports held Friday in Ho Chi Minh City, [...]
The law company representing the rights and interests of the dead victim has demanded a re-investigation into the case of journalist Le Hoang Hung who was burnt to death by his wife, Tran Thuy Lieu, in Long An Province in January. In a document sent yesterday to the provincial People’s Procuracy, the firm requested the [...]
The Ha Noi Master Plan covering the period up to 2030 will play a vital role in the country’s socio-economic development, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung said. At the plan’s launch yesterday, the Prime Minister said the city’s development would be sustainable, environmentally sensitive and in keeping with the nation’s cultural values. Dung said the [...]
Telepathy is the induction of mental states from one mind to another. This is a special ability which only some people have. Scientists define four paths to becoming a telepath: inborn ability, becoming a telepath after experiencing a great upheaval, veteran monks, being trained. The media does not mention why Ms. Nguyen Thi Nguyen in [...]