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With diversified models and attractive displays, shopping centres in Hanoi are catching the eye of customers in anticipation of Valentine’s Day (February 14). Market full of fresh flowers and gifts Presents for couples such as jewelry, teddy bears, T-shirts, decorative objects and gift boxes are on sale along Luong Van Can, Lo Duc and [...]
More than 40,000 Vietnamese people have settled in the Cabramatta suburb of Fairfield, New South Wales, Australia, 30km southwest of Sydney. The Australian press has dubbed Cabramatta “Vietnamatta” and considers it a miniature Vietnam. Centre for cuisine Covering an area of two square miles, Cabramatta has nearly everything that is found in Vietnam. The most [...]
While many tourism hotspots around Vietnam are ripping off foreign tourists and turning them away, a handful of farmers in the Mekong Delta are winning the backpackers’ trust with their gardens designed as an original and interesting ecotourism area. Only a few of the hundreds of tourists, both foreign and domestic ones, visiting the Ba [...]
It’s just less than two weeks away from Vietnam’s Lunar New Year festival (Tet) which optimizes the cultural identity of the country. But the Hanoian (another word for Hanoi people) have already started to look for peach blossoms – a symbol of spring arrival. The beauty of flower villages not only attracts the old residents of Hanoi [...]
Visitors to Sapa in recent days have been ‘frozen to the marrow’ because of low temperatures. However, the locals continue their normal lives. While protecting their buffaloes against the cold spell, many are busy growing vegetables or flowers for the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year festival (Tet). Foreign tourists like to stay in Sapa town, [...]
32-year-old Nguyen Duy Hai from Da Lat, the man with tumor and now without it is recovering well three days after the 12-hour surgery on Thursday, France – Vietnam Hospital’s spokesperson announced Saturday. Asked how he felt after the operation, Hai smiled and said “I feel so much lighter now but it still hurts a [...]
Lao Prime Minister Thongsin Thammavong received Vietnamese Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc in Vientiane on Jan. 8. The Vietnamese Deputy PM was on a visit to Laos to attend the 34th session of the Vietnam-Laos Inter-governmental Committee on economic, cultural, education, scientific and technological cooperation. Deputy PM Phuc, who is also Chairman of the Vietnam-Laos [...]
The Supreme People’s Procuracy held a conference in Hanoi on Jan. 8 to launch their tasks for 2012 in the presence of President Truong Tan Sang. Speaking at the conference, President Sang praised the procuracy sector’s efforts in the past year, saying that the sector worked closely with other judicial agencies to better investigation and [...]
Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc and his Lao counterpart Somsavath Lengsavad have co-chaired the 34th session of the Vietnam-Laos Intergovernmental Committee on socio-economic, scientific and technological cooperation in Vientiane, Laos. At the five-day session that wrapped up on Jan. 7, both sides reviewed the implementation of agreements on socio-economic, scientific and technological cooperation [...]
Yesterday 15 fishermen whose boat sank after being hit by a strange boat off Binh Thuan Province were rescued by a Liberian-flagged ship, while 10 others remained missing in another sinking in Ca Mau Province. On early Sunday morning, a boat with a 15-member crew on board was drifting 93 nautical miles west off Binh [...]