Old bikes – old habit

Nearly 40 old bicycles, some worth several thousand dollars, grouped up by West Lake on a Sunday morning. In the noisy are of car and motorbike horns, bicycle bells sometimes stroke ding-dong..

 

Community refuses to sing final xoan song

VietNamNet Bridge - With a traditional music style on the verge of extinction, residents in An Thai Village ramp up efforts to protect their sacred art.

Singers stay nameless in HCM City

Many singers start their careers at nightclubs. For some, singing has become a job to earn a living while some others sees night clubs as “classes” to train themselves and wait for opportunities.

Procedure helps clubfoot children walk again

VietNamNet Bridge - A group of doctors from the International Society of Prosthetics and Orthotics have instituted a new project that uses modern technology to treat children with clubfoot.

 

For some workers, night school offers a ticket off assembly line

VietNamNet Bridge – Continuing its series on the life of factory workers, Tuoi Tre profiles some remarkably motivated young people.

Delta ponders costs of stampede to build factory sites

Mekong Delta Provinces have joined the “race” to develop industrial zones (IZs). However, most IZ’s are empty or poorly tenanted, and the costs to the environment are becoming evident.

Le Van, the man who sleeps with death

VietNamNet Bridge – Newspaper readers around the world have been amazed by the story of a 55 year-old farmer who has been sleeping with his wife’s remains for five years.

Health sector afflicted by corruption malaise

Bribes and gifts have become so commonplace that they are not seen as corruption by many patients.

Webs for teens: a lot of rubbish

The boom in Vietnamese language information websites has stirred up many problems, reports Tuoi Tre.   

Rural urbanisation - empty promises, empty houses, empty lives

VietNamNet Bridge – As Hanoi is expanded, spare a thought for the surrounding villages where lives are being irreversibly changed.

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