Agar wood mafia, lack of options force villagers to risk death

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Agar wood mafia, lack of options force villagers to risk death

The youngest son of 80-year-old Tran Nho (left, seen here with her daughter-in-law and two grandchildren) in Quang Binh Province, was shot dead during a hunt organized by "agar wood kings," but received no compensation. Photo courtesy of Saigon Tiep Thi

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Mangrove trees protect villagers from hard times

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

Mangrove trees protect villagers from hard times

All their neighbours were cutting down trees, attracted by the prospect of making money quickly. But people in one village refused to let their forest be destroyed.

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Compensation squandered

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Farmers in a village in the Central Highlands province of Kon Tum have spent their site-clearance compensation on purchasing cars and partying instead of investing in new businesses, baffling and worrying authorities and experts.

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Installation art... by nature

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Installation art... by nature

Central Vietnam village is itself a work of art thanks to residents' ingenuity and innate aesthetic sensibilities

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Simplicity at its best

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Simplicity at its best

Two Italian tourists pass a paddy field in Thôn Tha, Phuong Do Commune, the northern province of Ha Giang

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A village of poems in suburban Hanoi

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Chua village in Son Cong commune, Ung Hoa district on the outskirts of Hanoi is known as a poem village because local people have a great passion for poems and reciting poems with many of them being poets and writers.

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Senior citizen preserves village history

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Senior citizen preserves village history

VietNamNet Bridge –A village in the north dates back 2000 years but evidence and customs of its past have mostly disappeared. What's left is being steadfastly collected and promoted by an elderly, self-taught historian.

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Men prosecuted over border murder

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VietNam News English 1 month(s) ago 1 related news

Police in central Quang Tri province will prosecute two men who were allegedly involved in the murder of five local villagers when they were collecting valuable scented wood near the border between Viet Nam and Laos.

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Herbal remedies of the Dao

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Herbal remedies of the Dao

Herbalist Ly Van Nguyen fills a patient’s prescription at his shop in Yen Son Village, Ba Vi District

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Penniless plenty

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Penniless plenty

Peaceful A Tu Village, some 300 kilometers from Tam Ky, the capital of Quang Nam Province. Currency notes pass almost unnoticed here not because the villagers don’t like them but because they have no need of them, or indeed opportunity to use them owing to A Tu’s geographical isolation.

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Five confess to gang-raping Swiss tourist in India: police

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Five confess to gang-raping Swiss tourist in India: police

NEW DELHI, March 17 – Five villagers have confessed to gang-raping a Swiss tourist in central India, police said Sunday, in an incident that has renewed focus on the rampant violence against women in the country.

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Hydro-power plants halted over eco-fears

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VietNam News English 2 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

Kon Tum has become the latest province in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam to scrap planned hydro-power project, after forests have been lost, villagers left without resettlement options and the downstream river basin severely degraded.

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Seven villagers struck by mystery sickness

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VietNam News English 2 month(s) ago 1 duplicate news

The mysterious disease that afflicted hundreds of people in Quang Ngai Province seven months ago has returned, with seven residents of the province's Ba To district reported to be suffering from the condition, a provincial health official announced.

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Selfish rush

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Selfish rush

Hundreds stampede to get the symbolic stamps – thought to be lucky in a custom dating back to the 13th century – at Tran Temple in the northern city of Nam Dinh yesterday morning. The chaos takes place despite efforts of organisers to control it. While today's worshippers pray for personal good fortune, villagers in the past took part in a ceremony to pray for peace.

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Villagers reveal secrets to long life

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Villagers reveal secrets to long life

The residents of Truc Lam Village, in Hue City's Huong Long Ward, have been known for their high life expectancy, with many living well into their eighties with good health and sound mind.

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