Life below the line, with a dollar a day

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 1 week(s) ago

Life below the line, with a dollar a day

With Vietnam’s poverty standard line ruled as earning just VND500,000 (US$24) per capita a month, meaning less than one US dollar a day, it is certainly hard to live ‘below the line’, but you can’t imagine how it is in reality.

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Top players compete in national chess tournament

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VietNam News English 6 month(s) ago

Defending champion Nguyen Thi Thanh An of HCM City had a good start at the national tournament for the country's top chess players, with a victory over Le Thi Ha of Hai Phong in the first round of the women's event yesterday in HCM City.

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Illegal narcotics, high-end prostitution rampant in Vietnam metro

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Báo Thanh Niên English 10 month(s) ago

The presence of synthetic narcotics in Ho Chi Minh City is increasing exponentially while prostitution is out of control, the city government said at a conference Monday.

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Local businesses attend int’l Kunming Fair

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Báo Đầu Tư English 12 month(s) ago 1 related news

Local businesses attend int’l Kunming Fair

More than 120 Vietnamese businesses are attending an import and export fair, which opened in Kunming City, the capital of China’s Yunnan province, on June 6.

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Man receives 20 years for burning his son over divorce crisis

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Báo Thanh Niên English 19 month(s) ago 8 related news

A man who burned his 3-year-old son trying to make his wife cancel a divorce was sentenced to 20 years in jail in northern Vietnam on Wednesday.

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Hanoi students hold impressive Halloween

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Báo Dân Trí English 20 month(s) ago 1 related news

Hanoi students hold impressive Halloween

Students in Hanoi and those from other countries living in the city held an impressive Halloween night on October 29.

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Just a good heart

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Báo Dân Trí English 22 month(s) ago 1 related news

Just a good heart

Though they themselves are still struggling for livelihood, many workers of Pankovina Company in Binh Duong Province are sharing the little they have with the less unfortunate at the Chanh Phu Hoa Social Support Centre.

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Just a good heart

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 22 month(s) ago 1 related news

Just a good heart

Though they themselves are still struggling for livelihood, many workers of Pankovina Company in Binh Duong Province are sharing the little they have with the less unfortunate at the Chanh Phu Hoa Social Support Center.

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“Prostitution could not be a job”

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VietnamNet English 24 month(s) ago

“Prostitution could not be a job”

VietNamNet Bridge – Responding to the idea that Vietnam should legalize prostitution, a senior official confirmed on July 15, that Vietnamese law does not consider prostitution as a job and this social evil must be combated.

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2 men held for kidnapping boy for $25,000 ransom

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Báo Tuổi Trẻ English 26 month(s) ago

Police in Lam Dong Province Friday arrested two men for allegedly kidnapping an eight-year-old boy to extract a ransom of VND500 million (US$25,000) from his family.

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One third of sex workers have HIV

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Báo Thanh Niên English 27 month(s) ago 2 related news

An estimated 30-40 percent of Vietnamese prostitutes are infected with HIV, according to an announcement made Wednesday by the Social Ills Prevention Department in Ho Chi Minh City.

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People worry about the Red River drying up

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Hanoi Times English 45 month(s) ago 1 related news

People worry about the Red River drying up

The Hanoi Times - With the Hong (Red) River drying up the lives of farmers living along its banks are hanging in the balance.

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People worry about the Red River drying up

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VOV News English 45 month(s) ago 1 related news

People worry about the Red River drying up

With the Hong (Red) River drying up the lives of farmers living along its banks are hanging in the balance.
Le Thi Ha from a cooperative in Ngoc Thuy ward, Gia Lam district says farmers cannot get enough water to irrigate their fields as the water level in the river has dropped to a very low level. She has every reason to worry about, as the dry season will last another five or six months.
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Classes in danger of dying due to lack of students

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VietnamNet English 47 month(s) ago

Classes in danger of dying due to lack of students

Nguyen Thi Mai Binh, head of the training division of Hung Vuong University in HCM City said members of the university’s management board are discussing whether to continue two study options this year.

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23 photos win press photo contest

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VietnamNet English 48 month(s) ago

23 photos win press photo contest

Launched on September 15, 2008, the competition attracted nearly 600 photographers with around 3,300 photos. Some 130 works were chosen for display and 23 photos won prizes, including two first prizes, four second prizes, six third prizes and 11 consolation prizes.

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