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A community portal about Vietnam with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam is a nation in Southeast Asia. It borders the People's Republic of China to the north, Laos to the northwest and Cambodia to the southwest. To the country's east lies the South China Sea. With a population of approximately 84 million, Vietnam is one of the most densely populated nations in Southeast Asia.

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Unique homecoming to Vietnam for US commander

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On the day his side lost the Vietnam War, Hung Ba Le fled his homeland at the age of 5 in a fishing trawler crammed with 400 refugees. Thirty-four years , he makes an unlikely homecoming — as the commander of a U.S. Navy destroyer. Commander H.B. Le was scheduled Saturday to pilot the USS Lassen into Danang, home of China Beach, where U.S. troops frequently headed for R&R during the war, which ended on April 30, 1975, when the southern city of Saigon fell to communist troops from North Vietnam. That was the day Le and his family embarked on an uncertain journey ... Read Full Story

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How Vietnamese People Cultivate Wet Rice?

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Some 70 per cent of Vietnam’s population is engaged in agriculture, which uses over 20 per cent of the country’s area and produces 15 per cent of its GDP. Vietnamese Cultivates Wet Rice Vietnam has two huge deltas: the Mekong in the south and the Red River in the north. From time immemorial the Vietnamese have known how to build dykes and avoid flooding, creating more land for wet –rice cultivation. Thousands of kilometres of dykes have been built along the Red River to protect this vast fertile delta and its population. Recently my friend Huong Do and I visited her uncle, who is ... Read Full Story

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Sapa Travel Information

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From: www.thaiaround.com

lily flowers on thailand Visitors to Sapa in summer can feel the climate of four seasons in a day. The morning and afternoon, he is cool like the weather in spring and autumn. At noon, it is as sunny and cloudless as the weather of the summer. It's cold at night. Without warning of a thunderstorm short and heavy rains in May next at noon every day in summer. Subsequently, a rainbow appears, transforming Sapa in magic land, which for years has been a constant source of poetic inspiration, lights up the entire region. The best time to witness the scenic beauty of Sapa ... Read Full Story

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Vietnam ready to host its biggest sporting event

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Vietnam hosts its biggest-ever sporting event from Friday when thousands of regional athletes gather for the third Asian Indoor Games, and it has high hopes of putting on a successful show. Despite the challenge of finding sponsors during the global financial crisis, organisers said everything was in place for the opening ceremony at My Dinh National Stadium -- the only event taking place outdoors. "We have a chance to promote our country, our people," said Hoang Vinh Giang, secretary general of Vietnam's Olympic committee. The communist government has invested more than 100 million dollars in the project, about one-third of which paid for the ... Read Full Story

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Asiad: Vietnam ready to host its biggest sporting event

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MU, Liverpool veterans thrill Vietnamese

Hundreds of fans turned up at the Noi Bai International Airport in Hanoi on Wednesday to greet football legends and ex-stars of English Premier League clubs Manchester United and Liverpool.

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Song for Trang

Two lo-fi tracks recorded in Khach San Quynh Huong, Ho Chi Minh City, Vn. 'Song for Trang' didge, acoustic guitar, vocals, bongos 'Vietnamese Ghosts (Noise) software, acoustic guitar, vocals.This item belongs to: audio/opensource_audio.This item has files of the following types: Checksums, Flac, Flac FingerPrint, Metadata, Ogg Vorbis, VBR M3U, VBR MP3, VBR ZIP, WAVE

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Minh-Stadt - Dichter Thien Tran erhält Kölner Brinkmann-Stipendium

Tran wurde am 17. Juli 1979 im südvietnamesischen Ho Chi Minh-Stadt geboren und lebt seit 1982 in Deutschland. Er studierte in Köln und veröffentlicht seit 2004 Gedichte und Anthologien. Er wohnt und arbeitet in Köln.In seinen Gedichten spüre man die Verwunderung, die Bezauberung, die Unruhe, die die Sprache in ihrem Autor auslöst, heißt es in der Begründung der Jury. Seine Leser fänden in diesen Texten «höchst zeitgemäße Annnäherungen an das...

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