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A documentary film on the Hoang Sa archipelago by Vietnamese French director Andre Menras was screened at the Vietnamese Culture Centre in Paris on May 11. The film entitled “Hoang Sa Vietnam: Noi dau mat mat” (Vietnam’s Hoang Sa: Pain and Loss) reflected the life of fishermen in the coastal district of Binh Son [...]
An 11-year old girl is believed to have set fire to her house, located on Bach Dang Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District, last Saturday as her body had previously generated high heat and burned several items in the house. At 9am, a blaze suddenly broke out from the second floor of [...]
18 year-old Yeo Phuc Anh, a 12th grader at Ho Chi Minh City’s British International School, has been wandering around the streets of the city’s downtown, trying to sell plastic wristbands to raise funds for her own project. It all began in 2010 when Anh witnessed a friend in pain as her legs became disabled [...]
Professor Ngo Bao Chau is among 220 scholars, scientists, writers, artists, businessmen and leaders to become new members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS). They are historian David W. Blight, volcanologist Katherine V. Cashman, director Clint Eastwood, musician Sir Paul McCartney, playwright Neil Simon and mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, chemist James [...]
National Assembly deputy Dang Thi Hoang Yen of Long An Province, whose eligibility for office is under scrutiny due to false declarations in her record, has unlawfully organized a press conference in her hometown, local authorities reported. The deputy, who is also chairwoman of the Tan Tao Group, Tan Duc Investment and Industry Joint Stock [...]
Twenty people who attacked law enforcement officers in a forced land withdrawal in Hung Yen Province have been detained, local authorities reported. They were arrested yesterday in Van Giang District after using stones and bottles of petrol to attack the local police force, which helped keep order in the forced removal by local authorities to [...]
Effective April 13, 2012 the US Department of State will adjust visa processing fees, with most nonimmigrant visa fees to be increased, according to a notice released by the US Embassy in Hanoi yesterday, April 3. Image for illustration only. (Photo: Internet) According to the new adjustment, tourist, business, transit, crew member, student, exchange [...]
Crocias langbianbis, a rare and endemic species of bird of Vietnam has been discovered in the Central Highland province of Kon Tum. The Crocias langbianbis is a species of bird in the Timaliidae family. It is endemic to Vietnam. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist mountains. It is threatened by habitat loss. “This [...]
The “Sound Fest 2012” music festival has just announced two more foreign artists who will be take part in the concert t be held on April 14 in Ho Chi Minh City. British singer Taio Cruz and Top 7 American Idol 2003 Kimberly Caldwell are the names that will join well-knownSouth Korean pop band Big [...]
Authorities in Muslim-majority Malaysia have abruptly cancelled a show by a Singapore ballet troupe amid concern that their costumes would be too revealing, a dance group said Thursday. Bilqis Hijjas, president of Malaysian arts group MyDance Alliance, said performers from the Singapore Dance Theatre were denied visas for the performance scheduled for this weekend due [...]