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Hanoi in the ripe rice season: The capital city’s suburban villages are now as beautiful as paintings in the harvest season. Harvesting rice in the afternoon in a field of My Duc district.Women are hastily cutting rice.A woman cannot hide her happiness for a bumper crop.A schoolgirl helps her parents to reap rice after class.A woman carries rice to her home for plucking. Plucking rice off the

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UNESCO recognised the Ho Dynasty in the central province of Thanh Hoa as World Cultural Heritage site on June 27. Located in the two communes of Vinh Tien and Vinh Long in Vinh Loc district, the citadel measuring 870m by 833m was built in 1397. The citadel’s construction was supervised by the Tran dynasty’s top mandarin, Ho Quy Ly, who later occupied the citadel when he forcibly took the throne

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Contestants will compete in a shooting, product advertising, performing on catwalk and take part in social activities. Prizes include two golden cup worth VND50 million (US$2,500) of each for male and female models, two silver cups valued VND40 million (US$2,000) of each. The organizers will also award minor titles including the Best body, the Most Photogenic Supermodels, and the Most Impressive

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 Vietnam terraced fields in Mu Cang Chai - Beautiful scenes in the home of terraced fields Summer is here. The rice is almost ripe. Let’s go to Mu Cang Chai, the home of terraced fields, to admire ripening rice. Terraced fields are like a watercolour painting Looking down from mountain, the terraced fields under afternoon sunshine look like a stunning, gigantic watercolour painting curving

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The terraced fields of Y Ty Commune in northern Lao Cai Province make for an amazing sight during planting season. The residents of this commune in Bat Xat District have maintained their old methods of cultivation, now an unique tourism product in northwest Vietnam. Some photos of terraced fields Y Ty:

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US official upbeat on business climate A senior official from the US Government's development finance agency has expressed optimism about the investment climate in Viet Nam."US businesses, because of the economic slowdown, are looking for opportunities internationally, and as they look for those opportunities, particularly in Asia, I think Viet Nam is a very attractive place for that

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These gemstone blocks are the most unique in Vietnam and their prices are estimated at thousands, hundreds of thousands or millions of US dollars. The jade block owned by artisan Dao Trong Cuong The most famous gemstone block in Vietnam is the 35-ton jade block owned by artisan Dao Trong Cuong. It is 3 meter high, 2.3m wide and 2.4m thick, mined from the largest jade mine in Myanmar. Cuong

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“No one knows exactly when the first jar of Vietnamese traditional tuong (soya sauce) was made but our family has produced it for four generations,” shares 83-year-old Hoang Thi Lu of Cu Da Village in Hanoi’s Thanh Oai District, a village made famous for its tuong recipe. The dried soya bean must be firstly roasted. Tuong sauce has been a staple condiment for Vietnamese people for

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Rich people and “big guys” in Hanoi are rushing to purchase large plots of land in suburban areas to develop farmsteads. It is so cramped and congested in the inner city that rich people are searching for places in suburban areas for them to relax. The landlords  N.T.L, Deputy Director of a big media company in the north, related that two years ago, he purchased two hectares of forest

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After being ranked as the most optimistic nation in the world by a Gallup poll, Vietnam is now rated the world’s 61st happiest nation according to the latest Prosperity Index recently released by a UK think tank.  For illustration purposes only According to the 2010 Legatum Prosperity Index Table Rankings from London-based Legatum Institute, Norway is the most prosperous while

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Many businesses are facing difficulties, particularly financial in applying clean technology. Over the past few years, the industrial sector’s revenue has accounted for more than 70 percent of the country’s export revenue, which has significantly contributed to restructuring the national economy, balancing the structure of all economic sectors, especially foreign-invested businesses and

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After being issued for several years, coins have been rejected from circulation. Why? According to the SBV Governor, the issuance of VND500 and VND2000 coins aimed to meet the requirement of monetary circulation. However, after seven years, coins have nearly disappeared from the market. Housewives have not used coins for several years because they are not accepted by traders at markets. “

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The Vietnam News Agency has selected ten highlights of Vietnam in 2010 which record the country’s development over the year. These highlights are:  1. Congresses of Party committees at all level were convened in preparation for the 11th National Party Congress. These were important

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The National Assembly last week approved a draft of the Seventh Socio-Economic Development Plan for 2011-2015, which sets a target for economic growth of at least 8 percent annually.  The agriculture and forestry sector is set to grow by 3.5 percent, equal to 23 percent of GDP; the industrial sector is set to grow by 15 percent, equal to 39 percent of GDP; and the services sector is set to

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Every year during Tet employees in many companies expect high bonuses, while for teachers the bonuses are slim to none. In the banking and finance industry Tet bonuses are often hundreds of millions in VND. But in the education sector there are no regulations guaranteeing bonuses for teachers. Educational institutions receive an annual budget from the state. Only if a school is extremely adept

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The average rent for an office in Ho Chi Minh City decreased by 9.1% last year, according to CBRE Vietnam.Bitexco Financial Tower will provide 38,000 square metres of offices for rent. During the fourth quarter of 2010, the rent of Grade A offices fell by 4.5% to (USD35) per square metre, including offices of the two newly-launched Vincom Centre and Bitexco Financial Tower projects, said

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In the piercing cold, thousands of farmers in central Vietnam still work very hard in the field.  In 11 degree Celsius, Nguyen Thi Viet in Nam Dan district, Nghe An province, covers her face with a scarf when working in the fieldher field. Lien’s husband works as a builder far from home so she has to struggle with a buffalo alone. In the cold weather, the buffalo sometimes doesn’t

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Holding the volume of shares worth 2,340 billion dong, Pham Thu Huong has topped the list of the 50 richest women on the stock market released by VnExpress newspaper for 2010, though Huong’s stock assets’ value remains to be lower than the 2009 richest woman’s.  Huong is now holding 17.5 million VIC (Vincom) shares and 15 million VPL (Vinpearl) shares. She is the wife of Pham Nhat

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Experts believe that the year 2011 will witness a new stage of development in the telecom market with telecom companies shaking hands to co-exist and develop side by side instead of fiercely competing by lowering charges. Large scale development of 3G technology has been considered as one of the most important breakthroughs in Vietnam’s

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Bat Trang is putting the finishing touches onto a number of giant - and expensive - pottery products just in time for Tet. Many well-to-do families are making their way to the pottery village of Bat Trang, in the Gia Lam district, Hanoi to order impressive pottery for the holiday. It is hoped that these elaborate products will bring good luck to the buyers in the New Year. Craftsman To Thanh

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Vietnam's torso is, appropriately enough, where I ate the best food. If I could only return to one region, I think it'd have to be Central for this very reason. (This said, why no food shots? Perhaps I was enjoying the meals too intensely to consider documenting them. You may also find it curious that my first food story is completely unappetizing. Good thing the meals got better.) Heading

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Nguyen Phu Trong elected Party General SecretaryMr. Nguyen Phu Trong was elected General Secretary of the Party Central Committee XI. 5 he was elected to the Politburo, including: Ngo Van Du, Dinh The Huynh, Tong Thi Phong, Tran Dai Quang, Nguyen Xuan Phuc. 11th Party Central Committee announced The list of 175 official members out of 218 candidates of the 11th Central Committee of the

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The bad weather and natural calamities around the globe combined with the unpredictable rice stocks are the main factors that affect the rice market and rice export prices in the first months of 2011. This year is predicted to be a difficult year for Vietnamese rice exporters. In an interview given to Thoi Bao Kinh Te Saigon several days ago, Truong Thanh Phong, Chair of the Vietnam Food

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In the afternoon of the last day of 2010, December 31, Professor Regina Abrami from Harvard Business School was present at VietNamNet’s Vietnam Economic Forum, a roundtable talk where she shared her thoughts about MBA training and gave advices about how Vietnam can exist and develop next to China, fields in which she is very knowledgeable.  Professor Regina Abrami  Her primary

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The list of 175 official members out of 218 candidates of the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam was made public at 10 am, January 18. The nine members of the 10th Politburo was re-elected. The 11th Politburo members include (in alphabet): Minister of Public Security Le Hong Anh, Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, HCM City Party Secretary Le Thanh Hai, Deputy PM Nguyen Sinh

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