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Intrepid teacher refuses to be silenced
After losing her ability to talk, Le Thi Thu Xuong remained strong and worked hard to become a teacher for deaf students. Le Thi Thu Xuong (second) left) teaches sign language at the...
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Classic drama to go on puppet stage
Based on the classic drama “Mussel, Oyster, Snail and Clam”, director of the Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre Nguyen Hoang Tuan, has produced a puppet performance entitled Nang Hen. A secene from Nang...
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Motorised tricycle owners fear ban will hurt livelihoods
LookAtVietnam – While most of the owners of modified three- and-four-wheel motor vehicles are still ill prepared to switch their occupation, . . . A man earns his living with his three-wheeled...
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HCM City plans 20,000 low-rent units for education workers
LookAtVietnam – The HCM City Department of Education and Training is planning to build 20,000 low-cost apartments for teachers and educational managers. The HCM City Department of Education and...
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Simacai Heaven’s Gate
LookAtVietnam – Combining the poetic charms of its wild scenery and the simple daily lives of its people, “Heaven’s Gate”, as people often call Simacai, is becoming more and more attractive to...
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Agriculture machinery goes to waste in central Vietnam
A tiller left to rust on a Quang Ngai paddy field after more machines than necessary were purchased under a national poverty alleviation program. More than US$3 million worth of welfare support has...
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Disabled man drags himself up the stairs at district court: report
63-year-old An Van Chau sits on the steps at the People's Court in District 4, Ho Chi Minh City A 63-year-old man on a wheelchair had to drag himself upstairs at a court in Ho Chi Minh City’s District...
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Hanoi Goethe Institute to showcase Long Bien
 The Goethe Institute in Hanoi will launch an exhibition showing photos and films on scenes around Long Bien District in Hanoi.  “Long Bien Picture Show” will feature more than 140 photos and...
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Bad storm rising
Thanh Nien Weekly had an exclusive ride-along with Ho Chi Minh City police during a recent citywide raid on illegal street racing A man being detained by police for participating in an illegal...
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Rumors spark land fever in Hanoi suburbs
Villas under construction in the suburban district of Soc Son in Hanoi. Rumors of impending infrastructure development projects have sent real estate prices soaring in some suburban districts of Hanoi...
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Parents protest iffy response to son’s death at Dam Sen Park
Six-year-old Nguyen Dinh Nhat Huy was found dead in a waste treatment lake at the entertainment park on April 26. The parents of a six-year-old, who died last week at an entertainment park in Ho Chi...
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Local forces look for tigers after sighting claims in southern Vietnam
A police officer and Dong Nai residents in a search operation after a rumor spread that two tigers had been seen in the area. Authorities in the southern province of Dong Nai on Monday ordered...
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Dig good lookin' chicks? Cho Lach's the place
Taking care of baby chickens has become a service as the chicken business in Cho Lach District in the Mekong Delta boomed Cho Lach District in the Mekong Delta’s Ben Tre Province has emerged in...
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Shortages ‘killing patients’ in Libya siege hospital
Anti-Gaddafi fighters flash the victory sign in the front line north of the besieged city of Bani Walid October 2, 2011. People wounded in fighting in Libya’s besieged city of Sirte are dying on the...
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Hydropower dam causes tremors in central Vietnam
Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in the central province of Quang Nam. Initial official surveys have concluded that a hydropower reservoir’s operation has caused continuous tremors that have terrified...
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Family trees, nation’s pride
Le Van Thuong, head of the family that owns the garden with five newly anointed National Heritage trees, poses in front of the hollowed trunks of one of them He was offered US$300,000 and more for...
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Scientists blame hydropower plant for tremors in central Vietnam
Song Tranh 2 Hydropower Plant in the central province of Quang Nam Further scientific study has confirmed that the operations of a hydropower plant have caused underground explosions and minorÂ...
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7 arrested as 6 cops shot in northern Vietnam clash
Police deactivate mines set up at the entrance to the house of Doan Van Vuon in the northern city of Hai Phong. Six cops were shot in an encounter with Vuon's family on January 5. A man who allegedly...
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Authorities avoid questions on northern Vietnam controversial land revocation
Rubble of a house that was alleged to be wrongly destroyed by authorities in the northern port city of Hai Phong after a controversial land revocation on January 5. Questions remain unanswered at a...
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Lie of the land
After decades spent on reclaiming wasteland, farmers reacted violently to authorities seeking to revoke land Police officials and soldiers checking for mine at on the farmland of Doan Van Vuon in...
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