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The Meo Vac cattle market, held every Sunday in Ha Giang province, is unique in the northern mountainous region of Vietnam. Mong ethnic men walk their cows to market to sell. The market is not only where the locals living in the karst plateau trade cattle, it is also a gathering place for the Mong ethnic minority. Visitors to the region are always encouraged to go to the Meo Vac cattle market to experience this unique local ethnic cultural event. Market goers must start early in the morning....
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The Internet search giant Google on Thursday released its third fiscal quarter earnings report, posting strong numbers that beat analysts’ estimates. The Mountain View, California-based company reported revenue of 9.72 billion U.S. dollars for the quarter ending Sept. 30, 2011, an increase of 33 percent on a year-on-year basis. Google reported a profit of 2.73 billion dollars, compared to 2. 17 billion dollars in the same period last year. The earning per share, excluding certain items, is...
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China will launch the Shenzhou-8 spacecraft in early November at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China. The graphic shows the schematic image of Chinese space station. (Xinhua/Lu Zhe) The spacecraft is expected to perform China’s first space docking with Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace-1, a space lab module that was launched in September from the same launch center.The Shenzhou-8 spacecraft and the carrier rocket, Long March-2F, are being vertically transferred to the launch...
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The New Year flower festival in HCM City this year will feature traditional culture, modern life and focus on sea and island topic, said the city’s Vice Chair Hua Ngoc Thuan. Nguyen Hue flower road. This year HCM City will continue organizing annual programs to welcome the New Year, including: decorating Nguyen Hue road with flowers and trees, holding a flower festival at Tao Dan Park and organizing 45 flower markets. Vice Chair Thuan instructed event organizers to combine the sea and island...
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“Paranormal Activity 3″ opened as the top grosser at the weekend box office in North America, raking in a whopping 54-million-U.S.-dollar receipt, while other films debuted with lackluster showings. The third installment in the blockbuster franchise, “Paranormal Activity 3″ sold over 8 million dollars in movie stubs during its midnight screenings in the United States and Canada, an is on track for a record-breaking take, distributor Paramount Pictures announced. Like two of its proceeding...
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Steve Jobs, Apple’s co-founder and former CEO, may be one of the great men who will still be influential after their deaths. Copies of the new biography of Apple CEO Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson are displayed at a bookstore in New York October 24, 2011. The biography hit bookstores on Monday, but was released earlier-than-expected on Apple’s iBooks and Amazon.com’s Kindle late Sunday. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) The new biography of Steve Jobs is likely to be the top-selling book 2011 of...
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Advertising in Viet Nam is trending toward mobile devices, with the country becoming a member of the club of nations with one billion mobile internet advertisements a quarter, according to BuzzCity, a Singapore-based mobile media company. Last year mobile internet advertising grew at nearly 5,000 per cent in the country. It entered the list of top 10 mobile internet ad markets earlier this year, driven by increased mobile internet traffic on both Viettel and Vinaphone. Viet Nam, India,...
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There is still much evidence of a woeful but noble period of Vietnamese history on Con Dao islands today. Once known as a “hell on earth”, the islands have now become a tourist attraction for both domestic and international visitors. For more than 118 years, the French colonialists and then the US imperialists had turned
Con Dao (Poulo Condore) into a “Hell on Earth”, where tens of thousands of Vietnamese
patriots were imprisoned and more than 22,000 of them lost their lives for the cause
of...
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Optimistic signs have flared for the Vietnamese economy in the second half of 2011, for example the cooling of inflation, interest rate and gold price. However, many difficulties are still unsolved, especially problems that have existed for many years and harmed comprehensive development of the economy. The most typical matter is the scatter of national resources, which is caused by unclear decentralized administration. VietNamNet would like to introduce a talks on this topic, held by Doanh...
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Vietnamese people will have the chance to vote for Ha Long Bay as a new World Wonder through a TV programme to be broadcast live on October 29. The live programme will be concurrently aired on Vietnam Television’s Channel 1 (VTV1) linking four places: Ha Long Bay in the northeastern province of Quang Ninh, the capital city of Hanoi, the former imperial city of Hue in the central region and Ho Chi Minh City. Famous figures, including pop stars, will vote for the bay and deliver messages...
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British scientists used bacteria and DNA to build basic components for digital devices in a new research, according to media reports, suggesting biological computers come closer to reality. Digital devices are based on logic gates, fundamental building blocks in silicon circuitry, said Professor Richard Kitney, leading researcher of the research published in the journal Nature Communications, “Without them, we could not process digital information.” According to Science Daily, Professor...
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Cam Due Stone Tower Photo: Tuoitre Cam Due Stone Tower in Cam Xuyen District, Ha Tinh has lost most of the original stone construction as the 16th century historical site is going through a major restoration. Funded by the provincial government, the preservation work, which started in 2009, has knocked down part of the tower’s original gate and surrounding walls and replaced it with completely new structures. Built 500 years ago to worship Le Am, a eunuch and high official of the Le Dynasty,...
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Sitting 1,487km above sea level and within spitting distance of Da Nang City, the Ba Na resort area offers a wonderful respite for any weary traveller.
With its awesome landscape and year-round cool, Ba Na serves up the perfect alternative to the hustle and bustle of the city. However, the resort’s only accessible by a tortuous but spectacular 20km road running from the foot of the mountain across mist-covered hillsides. The first attraction to thrill tourists is the clear skies and puffy...
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Tourists visiting Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage town, will be able to surf the internet for free from the end of this year, according to the Quang Nam Province Department of Information and Communications. Ho Quang Buu, the department director, said together with the Vietnam Data Communications Area 3 and Quang Nam Telecom it had drafted a plan for setting up a Wi-Fi system. It will cost around VND23 billion (US$1.1 million), which will be provided by private sources. Businesses investing...