Last updated: Friday, October 30, 2009
VnnNews – Increasingly offices, apartment blocks, supermarkets and trade centres in Vietnam are being given western names.
It’s proving to be a headache for local people who don’t speak English. The names are hard to pronounce and easy to forget. At best the situation is being labeled a fad – at worst, snobbishness...
Tags: Foreign Names
Last updated: Sunday, October 11, 2009
Looks can be deceiving in Vietnamese stores. While albums may appear western they contain purely Vietnamese songs.
Singers Dong Nghi and Noo Phuoc Thinh. The album titled “Ngay Hom Qua La The” (That’s Yesterday) may be in Vietnamese but its styling certainly isn’t. Singer Ngoc Anh, the runner up at the first...
Tags: Foreign Names
