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  Outpouring of frustration and disappointment among youth indicates a need to strengthen pride and confidence in the nation, experts say Young people at an enlistment ceremony in Ho Chi Minh City last September. A national enlistment program this year saw thousands of youth voluntarily...

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Real estate has regained the top spot as the most attractive sector for private equity investment, Grant Thornton says. Private equity investors’ optimism in the Vietnamese economy has dropped sharply as they continue to worry about inflation, high interest rates and a slowdown in domestic growth, according to Grant Thornton....

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Vietnamese under-23 footballers (L) dejected after losing to SEA Games hosts Indonesia in the semis on Saturday Vietnam lost 0-2 to hosts Indonesia in the football semifinals of the South East Asian Games at Gelora Bung Karno Stadium on Saturday. The hosts launched lots of attacks and looked better throughout the game while...

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  Shakespeare’s classic tragedy fails to win local hearts and minds The sound wasn’t great; voices were sometimes hushed and the words and music muddled together. And if the Old-English wasn’t difficult enough for local Vietnamese audiences to understand –...

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Thailand with the U19 ASEAN Football Federation Championship trophy. Photo by VnExpress Vietnam lost 4-5 to Thailand in a penalty shootout in the ASEAN Football Federation Championship final in Myanmar on Wednesday after a 1-1 draw in a dramatic U19 fight. The match was scheduled to start at 6 p.m. but a downpour delayed...

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Photos of single mothers are on display at the Vietnamese Women's Museum in Hanoi Photographic depictions of single mothers’ hardships, thoughts, dreams and future plans are on display in Hanoi until September 9. The Vietnamese Women’s Museum in Hanoi and the Tan Minh Commune Party Committee in Soc Son District...

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  Activists worry multinational corporations that produced Agent Orange could perpetrate another ecological disaster through genetically modified organisms Agent Orange victims Chu Quang Duc (C), 27 years old, and his father Chu Quang Chien (R) who served in Vietnam’s central...

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Dinh Tien Hoang, the first Gepard class frigate of the Vietnamese Navy, in a file photo. Ordered by the Vietnamese navy, the second Russia-made Gepard class frigate has arrived at the Cam Ranh port. The frigate, made by Russian factory Zelenodolsk Gorky, was brought to the port in Khanh Hoa Province on July 25 on a cargo ship,...

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  Hanoi-born artist unafraid to take traditional instrument to new spaces Vo Van Anh playing the dan tranh at a concert in Ho Chi Minh City last week. The San Francisco based artist said her biggest desire was to introduce the traditional zither to world friends and...

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  Vietnam’s national football team has failed to qualify for the 2014 World Cup, but they left the tournament with a pride-restoring 2-1 home win over Qatar in Hanoi Thursday. The team failed to make it past the second round of the qualifying tournament after suffering a 0-3 away loss to their opponents...

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