September 3rd, 2010 |
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People all over Vietnam have been preparing offerings for their ancestors and attending activities during Vu Lan festival.
The street selling votive paper products have been busier, restaurants offering vegetarian food have been filled with an abundance of customers, and people have been flocking to pagodas to pray for the deceased in honour of Vu Lan [...]
September 3rd, 2010 |
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One of Da Nang’s most beautiful stretches of coastline will see two of its roads receive the names of Hoang Sa and Truong Sa.
Putting up the Hoang Sa and Truong Sa street signs has begun
Both are islands of Vietnam and their names will be given to two roads running along the Son Tra – Dien [...]
September 3rd, 2010 |
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The Co Tu (or Ca Tu, Ca Tang) are an ethnic group in Vietnam. Most Co Tu live in the provinces of Thua Thien-Hue and Quang Nam. The population was 50,458 in 1999. They speak a language in the Mon-Khmer language family.
The Co Tu typically serve rice cooked in bamboo stems, and drink a beverage [...]
September 3rd, 2010 |
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Harvest season has arrived bringing with it a healthy crop and serene views of the rice fields in Quang Nam Province.
The Co Tu ethnic minority group is busy harvesting the yellow-ripened rice fields which rest along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The Co Tu people have a community house in a community yard called a Guol. [...]
September 3rd, 2010 |
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Tra Que village is famous for growing organic vegetables and their products are popular for those in Hoi An and Da Nang.
The village is located in Hoi An City, Quang Nam Province.
Everyday, farmers here wake up very early to nurture and water their vegetables then harvest them. They do all these things within only a [...]
September 3rd, 2010 |
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The 2010 ‘Vietnam – Japan Culture Exchange Days’ will be held in Hoi An ancient town in the central province of Quang Nam from August 21-23.
Discovering Japanese food
The opening ceremony will take place in the An Hoi Sculpture Garden on the night of August 21.
According to Vo Phung, Director of the Hoi An Centre for [...]
VietNamNet Bridge – The Festival for Vietnamese Craft Villages 2010 opened at 29/3 Park in the central city of Da Nang on May 19, introducing unique products of 60 craft villages throughout the country.
60 reputed craft villages to join craft village festival
Lifespan of polluted craft villagers shorter
Farmers need to be trained as tour guides
Apart from [...]
Chai Village, a little fishing village hidden behind a mountain in the Tri Nguyen islands off Nha Trang, offers tourists an attractive seascape and tasty cuisine.
There are around 50 families in the village, most of which live in floating houses built on rafts. Others raise fish in cages under rafts on the sea but they [...]
The “Great Wall” of central Vietnam tells a fascinating story of collaboration and ingenuity
Archaeologists study artifacts unearthed at a post on the rampart in the Chim Hut Pass area in the central province of Quang Ngai. (Photo by Hien Cu)
Archeologists surmise that it is an unusual work involving local indigenous H’re people, the Kinh ethnic [...]
VietNamNet Bridge - From May 15-18, American director Erin Heidenreich, 34, shot a documentary about Agent Orange victims in the central city of Da Nang. Tuoi Tre newspaper talked with the director about this unnamed movie.
Japanese film documents Agent Orange victims
Int’l court of conscience lights up belief in justice
Young Agent Orange victim writes to Obama
The film [...]
