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Non-Vietnamese speakers, especially tourists, will have a chance to enjoy Vietnamese cai luong (reformed theatre) at the Haoi Theatre of Cai Luong (Chuong Vang Theatre) in English. English interpretations will be available through headphones, an idea trialled last year for foreign audience members at a performance of the opera Menh De Vuong (The King’s Fate), [...]
The Bac Ha Bird Market, held during the weekends in Lao Cai Province, is beautiful sight, which, at the same time causes harm to the biodiversity of the local forests. Men gather around the weekend bird market The Bac Ha Plateau, in the northwest, is a perfect tourist attraction, with its mountains and forests. [...]
Together with records of revenue earned from cinemas, many box offices have been built in Hanoi. Six years ago, Hanoi did not have just a single cinema that meets international standards, but now the number of modern box offices is five. In late April 2006, the first MegaStar cinema complex in Vietnam inaugurated in Hanoi, [...]
Students complain that their daily activities have been disordered because of the changes in the working and learning hours. They lack time for having meals, sleeping and resting. Finishing school hours at 7 pm, feeling tired and hungry of the curricular lessons, hurriedly having loafs of bread and rushing to evening classes – this [...]
The HCM City administration is determined to stop flooding at 10 of 31 spots in the city by the end of the year. Nhieu Loc – Thi Nghe canal was dredged by the HCM City Steering Centre for Anti-flooding Programme last November. Last year the city cleared 39 out of 70 flooding spots through [...]
Three local universities have publicly protested a ban on their July enrollment that was recently enacted by the Ministry of Education and Training, which explained they had not met its requirements for facilities and student-lecturer ratios. Academic affairs officers at the HCMC-based Van Hien University are checking out applications in this photo illustration. Nguyen Tac [...]
American plastic surgeon McKay McKinnon performed a surgery on Thach Thi Sanh Ly, whose whole body is covered in tumors at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh on Saturday. Ly, 35 from Tran De, Soc Trang suffers from neurofibromatosis, the same disease with Duy Hai and My Dung’s, two patients whose operations were carried [...]
Colonel Nguyen Nhu Tuan, director of Thai Nguyen Province’s Police Department, suspected an underground gang was the culprit of the explosion that occurred in his house yesterday. The official, who was appointed to the post a few months ago, said the blast might have been caused by some criminal group to revenge his strong measures [...]
The Government in the last regular cabinet meeting of 2011 has urged its members to join forces to curb inflation and stabilize macro economy this year. Vietnam gained initial results from implementing the austerity package contained in Resolution No. 11 last year, with the consumer price index (CPI) growth rate slowing down from the second [...]
Training courses offered by pedagogy universities to existing primary-school teachers have shown good results, with improved quality of teaching and management, according to an education official. First-grade students in their class at Truong Quyen Primary School in HCM City’s District 3 Hoang Truong Giang, vice head of the HCM City University of Pedagogy’s Primary [...]