Category Archives: Trang tiếng Anh

Taking the long way: the Hồ Chí Minh Trail

VIETNAMNEWS – Update: May, 20/2017 – 08:30


Stronger united: Soldiers push a truck stuck in the mud on the trail.

Named after the country’s first president and designed by military genius Gen. Võ Nguyễn Giáp, the Hồ Chí Minh Trail ran over 20,000km through Việt Nam, Laos and Cambodia. During the American War in Việt Nam, the trail, despite heavy bombardment and even the use of chemical weapons by the Americans, never ceased to function as a crucial lifeline that connected the country’s North and South.

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Lời cầu nguyện 209 – Prayer 209

Lời cầu nguyện 209

Chuỗi bài cầu nguyện

Giêsu ơi,

Ngày nào đó trên đất nước chúng em,
người lao động sẽ được kiếm đủ tiền cho cuộc sống hàng ngày,
trẻ em dân tộc thiểu số sẽ được học hành đầy đủ gần nhà,
phụ nữ nông dân sẽ được hưởng quyền sử dụng đất,
hành chính sẽ giản dị,
công quyền sẽ minh bạch,
người dân sẽ nói tiếng Anh tốt,
và mọi người sẽ tin tưởng lẫn nhau.

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Historic Dien Bien Phu Victory through pictures – Visit Muong Phang relic site in Dien Bien

 vietnamnet – Last update 15:18 | 08/05/2017

Historic Dien Bien Phu Victory through pictures

On May 7, 1954, the Dien Bien Phu Victory ended French colonial rule in Vietnam. 63 years later, Dien Bien Phu city, where the historic event took place, has underwent drastical changes.


On December 1953, the Party central committee and President Ho Chi Minh decided to begin the Dien Bien Phu campaign aiming at the French army headquarters base.


General Vo Nguyen Giap (second right) watched over the battle field for the last time before giving orders to begin the fight.

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Repealed regulation saves Vietnam’s textile industry time and money

Mrs. Nguyen Minh Thao of MPI/CIEM addresses a consultative workshop.
Nguyen Minh Thao of Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment addresses a consultative workshop to propose amendments to laws on specialized inspection in Ho Chi Minh City. – Van Anh/USAID GIG Program

USAIDBusiness sector saves millions when chemical testing is ruled unnecessary

“From now on, [the company] will not have to spend $4,500 every month on specialized inspection procedures for formaldehyde testing.”

No childhood for VN’s child labourers

VIETNAMNEWS – Update: May, 29/2017 – 07:00

A child collects wood after finishing school in Mù Căng Chải District in the northern province of Yên Bái. – VNS Photo Việt Thanh

HÀ NỘI — Social services need to improve to help curb child labour in Việt Nam and reduce its negative impacts on the country’s youth.

Statistics from Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affiars (MoLISA) showed that nationwide there are more than 1.75 million children doing tough labour or working in an unhealthy environment.

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Crying – Khóc

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Crying là bài hát được Roy Orbison trình diễn và sáng tác (cùng với Joe Melson) năm 1961.

Orbison nói anh đã viết bản ballad thơ mộng này sau cuộc gặp với tình cũ: “Dù tôi khóc bên ngoài hay khóc bên trong thì cũng như nhau.”

Báo nhạc Rolling Stone xếp Crying ở hạng 69 trong 500 bài hát hay nhất mọi thời đại. Continue reading Crying – Khóc

First cargo train linking VN, China sets off

VIETNAMNEWS – Update: June, 14/2017 – 14:15

A cargo train.— VNA/VNS Illustrative photo Huy Hùng

HÀ NỘI — The first cargo train on the 854-km route connecting Việt Nam and southwest China departed from China’s Kunming City for Hải Phòng Port on Tuesday afternoon.

The Jinlai Shunfa international logistics company, which is operating the route, said the train, carrying 32 containers of raw materials for the chemical industry, would reach Việt Nam within four to six days.

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Alpine ethnic people in Vietnam (8-part series)

Alpine ethnic people in Vietnam –

 
Alpine ethnic people in Vietnam – P1: Leading lives aloft

Tuoi Tre News – Updated : 06/04/2017 11:40 GMT + 7

Members of an ethnic minority group in the northern Vietnamese province of Ha Giang, home to the UNESCO-recognized Dong Van Karst Plateau, have settled in fortress-like stone houses atop mountains for generations.

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