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Investigating the lease of forest lands to foreign developers of tree plantations, VietNamNet reporters travelled also to Lang Son province on the border with China. Lanh Van Nga pointed to the 60ha forest where InnovGreen plants eclyptus. Nga said he would not give his forest land to this company, but keep it to his children.  Background:...

To better understand the growing controversy over leasing forest lands to foreign developers of tree plantations, VietNamNet reporters travelled to Quang Ninh province. “We collect bamboo from the natural forest to weave baskets and collect reeds to dry for brooms. Now foreigners come. If they lease all the forest land here to grow eucalyptus,...

Games available in public allow players to spy upon girls bathing, couples kissing, etc. at Internet cafés and shopping malls in HCM City. It is very easy to seek such a game on the Internet.From streets to shopping centresOn a Sunday afternoon, the game area at a shopping mall in HCM City was very crowded. A group of four teens sat...

Since the grant of vehicle registration numbers was computerized, people would think “brokers” for special registration numbers have “died”, but they still live very well with their service. A Bentley and a Mercedes in Dak Lak province with “nice” registration numbers. What is a special registration...

Vietnamese fashion houses and their young designers were more professional than ever and scored high points for quality and creativity. The torch bearers of Viet Nam’s haute couture industry, its young designers, have their sights trained firmly on the local market. And the market is showing increasing appreciation for their talent...

With a traditional music style on the verge of extinction, residents in An Thai Village ramp up efforts to protect their sacred art. Xoan singing is performed at holy venus in the communal house which begins with offering incense for gods.VnnNews – With a traditional music style on the verge of extinction, residents in An Thai Village...

While most families in Vietnam are preparing to welcome the lunar New Year (Tet), there are others who are not so lucky. VietNamNet profiles the people unable to celebrate Tet. The Phiac hemlet in Cao Bang province. Story 1: The man who didn’t even know of Tet Ban Gioc waterfall in the northern mountain province of Cao Bang...

VietNamNet’s reporters returned to Khen Len in Bac Kan, where the terrified landslide happened in July 2009 killing nine people, to meet the unfortunate young people orphaned by the event. “Tet is coming. I want to buy new clothes to them but I can’t. Why God didn’t kill me instead of my son and his wife? If I die, who...

Her neighbors said she has to save money to pay debts so she hasn’t celebrated Tet for five years. For Hua, the best she can hope for at Tet is not to be hungry.  At the age of six, the eyes of Dang Thi Hua in Po Tai hamlet, Trung Khanh district, Cao Bang province could not see the sunlight. Her parents were very poor so they...

“Off-line meetings” are now an up-to-date fashion for some teens. A number of websites provide a platform for organizing these “off-line meetings,” which are actually sex parties. An offline meeting. One of the most notorious of these websites hosts various “groups” in north, central and southern Vietnam...