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The trend of travelling with 5-star yachts
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VietNamNet Bridge – When the poor have to spend less money on their daily meals, the rich still can spend money like water, booking round-the-world tours with 5-star yachts.
Traveling with 5-star yachts now in fashion
Though traveling with 5-star yachts is considered the most luxurious entertainment service now in Vietnam, it has become familiar to many Vietnamese families.
Travel firms have confirmed that more and more Vietnamese people get ready to spend huge sums of money on round-the-world trips.
An executive of the HCM City-based One Travel Company said hundreds of clients in the city have recently booked outbound tours with 5-star yachts. The most wanted destinations are Hong Kong – China, Malaysia – Singapore and Thailand – Singapore. Meanwhile, super-rich people would choose luxurious tours to Japan, China and South Korea.
Tuyen, an officer of One Travel has advised travelers to book tours soon, many days in advance, if choosing the trips to Hong Kong – China, so that the travel firm can have enough time for visa and relating procedures.
Tuyen affirmed that with the luxurious tours, travelers would be able to enjoy the best services. Especially, everything is ready on yachts to satisfy every member of families. There is a standardized area for mountain climbers, mini golf course for fathers, shopping area for mothers and a 133 meter pedestrian boulevard for old people.
Especially, young travelers can enjoy entertainment activities at water parks, 3D cinema, aquarium… Music performance, prestidigitation and dance shows are organized continually. Travelers regularly receives the notices about the detailed schedules for the next days, from playing on 9-hole golf course, climbing mountain amid the open sea, to attending yoga training or contemporary art classes.
As for the rich travelers, some thousands of dollars is a low price for luxurious tours and enjoyable trips. The rich pay thousands of dollars for tours like the poor pay some thousands of dong to buy a bunch of vegetable at the market.
The rich now tend to throw their money into travel
Nguyen Cong Tuan in Hoan Kiem district in Hanoi said he was very satisfactory with the trip in April 2012. Tuan and his family members booked a tour with 50-star yacht to Japan, China and South Korea.
“My wife and I had wonderful time. The party at the last night was also wonderful,” he said, adding that he is going to invite some friends to another tour, slated for Christmas holiday.
“It could be the tour to Malaysia – Singapore – Thailand,” he said.
Tuan had to pay 59.9 million dong per traveler for the April trip, so the trip for four people cost him 280 million dong.
One Travel has said to date; the travel firm has received orders from 20 clients for the trips in October alone. Two tours for October have been designed, including the one to Hong Kong – China to be departed on October 12 (7 days and 6 nights, 31.9 million dong per traveler), and the tour to Singapore – Malaysia on October 31 (4 days, 3 nights, 17.5 million dong per traveler).
Huong Giang in Ba Dinh district in Hanoi has noted that Vietnamese people nowadays tend to spend money to enjoy their lives and travel around the world instead of putting money into coffers like their grandparents did in the past. Therefore, the demand for luxurious entertainment services has been increasing, thus keeping the travel market always warm.
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Oct
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Hung Yen is famous for unique Ban soy sauce village
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VietNamNet Bridge – The Ban craft village produces arguably the most delicious soy sauce in Ban Township, Yen Nhan District, Hung Yen Province.
A woman makes Ban soy sauce in Ban Village, Hung Yen Province. (Photo: SGT)
Ban soy sauce is so popular because it is made from large-grain sticky rice, small-grain soy bean, and in particular dinged-well water. There is only one well in Ban Village to supply the water to make the soy sauce, which is its sole purpose. Therefore, coming to Ban village to witness the sauce’s production in Hung Yen is recommended to tourists as it is a fascinating sight around harvest time.
March to August is that time for the villagers, so expect to see hundreds of jars in diverse sizes filling yards in every household. Making soy sauce is not difficult but making Ban soy sauce is an art-form.
Producers have to wash the rice carefully then soak it in water and cooked into sticky rice, next scatter the sticky rice onto a large bamboo flat basket and dry it in an airy place until the rice turns yellow. Soy beans must be roasted until the bean is brown and then the beans are soaked in a clean jar for one week. After the beans have fermented, producers will add a little salt and more soy beans into the water and stir regularly. The sauce must be fermented on sunny days.
Coming to Hung Yen, tourists will also be suggested to visit the Pho Hien relic complex, of which Mau Temple is a highlight and a mystery. Once stepping into the temple, travelers will be amazed by the huge seven-hundred-year-old tree which makes a domed gate for the temple. Another attraction tourists should not miss is the huge longan tree, called Nhan To, in front of Hien Pagoda. Around 300 years old, the tree is a sacred place for locals as they believe the tree brings prosperity to the land.
Another relic of the Pho Hien relic complex worth visiting is Thien Hau Temple, Dong Do-Quang Hoi Temple and Chuong (Bell) Pagoda which is endowed with poetic scenery and boasts a stone bridge spanning a lotus pond and 18 statues of Arhats. Hung Yen Literature Temple holds a collection of ancient steles.
Pho Hien also has stunning Vietnamese architecture, which is decorated with the colors of folk belief and religion, and some are considered high in artistic value. Along with their architectural features, these relics have preserved utensils for religious offerings, palanquins, hammocks, horizontal lacquered boards and many pairs of wood panels with skillfully-inscribed parallel sentences.
More importantly, the relics of Pho Hien preserve their innate ancient beauty. With the wet rice civilization and culture, we catch the colors of bronze, stone, wood, tile and soil on each roof, door and path, which create a sense of immortality of each relic.
With its role as a key link from the traffic artery of the Red River, Pho Hien was once a frontal port of Thang Long Citadel that opened to the sea, ranking second in importance to Hanoi, as goes an old Vietnamese saying. Today, Pho Hien residents are embracing an ambition to revive its glorious past.
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Oct
01
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Event on day
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Exhibition “Those Old Days…”
Opening: Mon 01 Oct, 5.30 pm
Exhibition: 01 – 07 Oct 2012
Viet Art Centre
42 Yet Kieu Str, Hanoi
You are invited to the exhibition “Those Old Days….” of Class K9 of Vietnam Fine Arts University.
Concert “Toward Hanoi”
Tue 02 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to Hoang Duong’s Music Night titled “Toward Hanoi”. The performance is conducted by Tetsuji Honna and performed by percussionist Tran Manh Hung, celloist Ngo Hoang Quan, My Linh, Trong Tan, Thanh Lam, Tung Duong, Dang Duong, Phuong Uyen and VNOB. For more information, see below:
PROGRAM
Part I:
Vũ Khúc H’Rê – for cello
Tiếc Thu - My Linh
Tiếng mưa rơi- My Linh
Tiếng hát anh tìm em - Trong Tan
Tím chiều- Dang Duong
Ru lại tình sau- Dang Duong
Đã muộn rồi lời yêu - Phuong Uyen
Mai em đi rồi - Phuong Uyen
Hát ru ( Solo Cello & Dàn nhạc – Ngô Hoàng Linh)
Part II:
Tình ca - Trong Tan
Tiếng hát anh tìm em – Trong Tan
Kỷ niệm Mat-cơ-va – Thanh Lam
Hướng về Hà Nội – Thanh Lam
Đôi mắt đen - Tung Duong
Anh còn gì cho em- Tung Duong
Tiếng hát sông Hương (Solo Cello Ngo Hoang Quan & Orchestra)
Tickets
Ticket prices: 300000, 500000, 600000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.
Exhibition “Venus in Vietnam”
Opening: Wed 03 Oct, 6 pm
Art Conversation: Fri 05 Oct, 6.30 pm
Exhibition: 04 – 14 Oct 2012, 9 am – 7 pm
Goethe Institut
56-58 Nguyễn Thái Học
Ba Đình, Hà Nội
Installation and sculptural work by Vu Dan Tan and recent pieces by Nguyen Nghia Cuong focus on female iconography and sexuality. The exhibition compares and contrasts the works of two Hanoi artists a generation apart.
This year marks the third anniversary of Vu Dan Tan’s death. In honor of this extraordinary artist, who is considered one of the leading artists of Vietnam’s post-Doi Moi scene, the Goethe-Institut presents the exhibition Venus in Vietnam, curated by Iola Lenzi in collaboration with Natasha Kraevskaja. The exhibition Venus in Vietnam features works by Vu Dan Tan (1946 -2009), that have never been shown in Vietnam: Delicate cardboard suits and miniature installations of female figures in glass-lidded cigarette boxes. They are representing two important series of Vu Dan Tan’s works, the Venus and Fashion series, the artist worked on over several years until shortly before his death. Some of these sculptures were exhibited in Germany (8th Sculpture Triennial -Triennale Kleinplastik, Fellbach, 2001), and later included in major exhibitions in Japan, Holland and Singapore, but in Vietnam, they were known only to friends and other artists who dropped into “Salon Natasha” while Tan was working on them.
Vu Dan Tan whose multi-media cross-disciplinary practice broke new ground in the 1980s with its conceptual and playful use of found materials, is now recognized as a pioneer of the Vietnamese and Southeast Asian contemporary avant-garde. This exhibition offers access to a facet of his work yet widely unknown in Vietnam.
Nguyen Nghia Cuong (b. 1973), a graduate of Vietnam Fine Arts University, now mid-career, is known for his ironic approach to contemporary reality, dominated by consumerism and brand-culture. In his recent series Beauty High Quality, he continues his investigation of the intersection of popular culture, advertising and consumerism, with life and society.
The present exhibition showcases works focusing on female iconography and sexuality, and these two themes’ expanded meaning in the social and cultural context of late twentieth century-early 21st century Vietnam. Vu Dan Tan’s key works of the last decade, juxtaposed with new works by Nguyen Nghia Cuong, together offer a so far little-explored but art historically relevant perspective on the role played by gender, sexuality and woman in Vietnamese visual art of the turn of the century.
Venus in Vietnam: Vu Dan Tan and Nguyen Nghia Cuong is documented by a comprehensively illustrated catalogue including an essay by Southeast Asian contemporary art specialist Iola Lenzi. Lenzi is also a frequent curator of Vu Dan Tan.
Art Conversation: Nguyen Nghia Cuong, Natalia Kraevskaia, and Iola Lenzi on sexuality and woman in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian contemporary art.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the Goethe Institut – Hanoi is organising an art talk formatted as a lively conversation between Nguyen Nghia Cuong, Hanoi-based curator, writer, lecturer, and Salon Natasha Director Natalia Kraevskaia, and curator, critic and lecturer Iola Lenzi. The artist and two curators will have an art conversation about the current exhibition and more broadly the theme of gender and sexuality in Vietnamese and Southeast Asian contemporary art. The panel will open the discussion to the attending public at the end of the art conversation.
Free admission.
Saigon DeathFest 2012
Sat 06 Oct 2012, 1 pm
Lao Dong Culture House, D11
622 Lac Long Quan, Ward 5, 11 Dist, Ho Chi Minh City
Come to a world class metal show, with the name of “Saigon Deathfest 2012″. To the Vietnamese metalheads, this event would be considered as the biggest extreme metal show ever. They are now talking about a real “metal storm” is coming to town.
It is not an overstatement when we call it a storm as it would be last from 1pm till very late at night, with a long list of band line-up. This will totally ease the thirst of “metal” from the rock fans.
8 metalbands from Vietnam, Philippine, Singapore, Malaysia and Japan will team up for Saigon Deathfest the first time in Oct 6, will blow the rooftop off the Lao Dong Culture House, D.11.
Line-up: Asilent (Singapore), Down From The Wound (Philippine), Blood Legion (Malaysia), Gotsu Totsu Kotsu (Nhật Bản), Hydrophobia (Nhật Bản) and Vietnamese bands: Disgusted, Wừu, Polar Lost.
Ticket
Ticket price:
Pre-sale: 200.000 VND
Door: 250.000 VND
Don’t miss your chance to join one of the biggest events of the year, call now 0935196388 (Trung) or 0932283366 (Ngọc) for Pre–sale discount tickets.
Cracking Bamboo 2012
Sat 06 Oct 2012, 7 pm
Goethe Institut
Sun 07 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Youth Theatre
In HCMC: Wed 10 Oct 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Conservatory of Music
After the successful concerts in 2008 and 2010, the Goethe-Institut Vietnam presents for the third time the percussion music festival CRACKING BAMBOO. On the foundation of percussion instruments and rhythm CRACKING BAMBOO combines Asian and Western music, which produces an exceptional and unique sound. The festival also supports the cultural exchange of western and eastern nations and besides the music it is an initiative to support innovative methods and practice in the field of music and performance art.
This year, around 31 participants from Asia and Europe, including Germany, Norway, France, England, Mongolia, Canada, Belgium, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, will come together for workshops inBangkok. From Vietnam three percussionists from the music academy Ho Chi Minh City will take part, just like three musicians from Hanoi who are going to play Vietnamese string instruments like the „Dan Bau“ and the traditional bamboo xylophone „Dan T`Rung“. All musicians spend 5 days in mixed and roughly equal-sized ensemble groups to create a program in which individual solo contributions, improvisation and short composed segments should result in a “composed” or arranged program inBangkok,Hanoiand Ho Chi Minh.
On October 6th at the courtyard of the Goethe Institute Hanoi will host the introduce concert during which the various artists will present themselves musically.
The resulting program will be performed in the concert on October 7th in the Youth Theatre inHanoi and on October 10th in Conservatory in HCMC. In this final concert the artists will present a music, which doesn’t have a special name: it is not only new music or traditional music, not World music or cross-over music: it is a music, all artists are creating on the same eyelevel in respect for the music culture of others. It is a wonderful adventure of listening for the musicians and the audience, too.
With CRACKING BAMBOO 2012, we promise again a very colorful, surprising and creative project.
Ticket
In HANOI
Performance on Sat 06 Oct, 7 pm at Courtyard, Goethe-Institut: Free entrance.
Performance on Sun 07 Oct, 8 pm at Youth Theatre: Free Tickets on 01.10.2012 at 10.00 am at Goethe-Institut Hanoi
In HCMC
Free Tickets on 03.10.2012 at: Goethe-Institut HCMC, 18, Str.1, Do Thanh Ward 4, Distrikt 3,Ho Chi Minh City,Vietnam
Screening of “Kerity, La Maison des Contes”
Fri 05 Oct 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
You are invited to the film screening of “Kerity, the House of Fairy Tales” (France, 2009, 80 minutes) of director Dominique Monféry. “The movie is one of the highlights of French cartoons”. For more information, see below:
Film’s synopsis: Natanaël Natanaël, seven, still doesn’t know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children’s literature. They are the original characters and are counting on him for protection. For if they leave the library, they will disappear along with their stories forever! When his parents start selling off the books, Nathanaël, who is shrunk by the evil witch Carabosse, braves everything to save his tiny friends.
Language: French with Vietnamese subtitles
Ticket:
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Screening of “Les Beaux Gosses”
Fri 12 Oct 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the film screening of “The French Kissers” (France, 2009, 90 minutes) of director Riad Sattouf. The film has received the César Award in 2010 for the Best Film for director Riad Sattouf. “The movie is extremely funny and is loved by many people” – Premiere Newspaper. For more information, see below:
Film’s synopsis: The film is a coming-of-age tale about an adolescent boy and his efforts to fit in amongst a varied cast of characters. Hervé is 14 years old tuổi and lives with his mum. At school, he is not surrounded by his good friends.
By going out with a girl, it has changed a lot of his thoughts. However, he will get used to it so he won’t get so tongue-tied. One day, he has developed a very good relationship with Aurore who is one of the prettiest girls in the class…
Language: French with Vietnamese substitle
Ticket price: 20 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 10 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Subscription Concert Vol.56 “Mahler Cycle”
12 and 13 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the Subscription Concert Vol.56 with conductor Honna Tetsuji and Vietnam National Symphony Orchestra. The artists will perform famous works of Mahler and Webern.
Program
Anton Webern Passacaglia op.1
Gustav Mahler Symphony No.7
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200000, 350000, 500000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.
Concert with Swing Quartet
Sat 13 Oct 2012, 8 pm
L’Espace
24 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
You are invited to the Jazz -Accordion concert with the Swing Quartet. The concert is performed by the young accordion player Thibault DILLE, winner of the renown Toots Thielemans Award, Bruxelles 2010. It will bring to the audience swing tunes of famous French composers such as Gus Viseur, Marcel Azzola, Richard Galliano.
Establish in 2010 in Hanoi, the Swing Quartet had their first performance in the Youth Theater.
Performers:
Thibault Dille : accordion
Nguyễn Tiến Mạnh : piano
Christophe Hache : contrabass
Nguyễn Hùng Cường : percussion.
Tickets:
Ticket price: 120 000 VND
Special price for members of L’Espace and students: 60 000 VND
Tickets are available at L’Espace.
Opera “Cosi fan Tutte” by W.Mozart
05 and 06 Oct 2012, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House
1 Tràng Tiền, Hà Nội
On 5 and 6 October 2012, at the Hanoi Opera House, the Vietnam National Opera and Ballet will perform one of Mozart’s best loved operas – one of the “big three”, namely COSI Fan TUTTE the libretto of which was written by Lorenzo da Ponte (The other two operas, also with texts by Da Ponte, are of course The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni).
Cosi fan Tutte is an opera which was “ahead of its time” – a classical opera written in 1790 but with a theme that is utterly contemporary and completely relevant to modern audiences. This is the story of relationships, love and sex, and being faithful and loyal to one’s partners. It shows women trying to be faithful but eventually giving in in the face of temptation by the very partners they say they ought to be faithful to! Should people follow their heads or their hearts, or even simply their passions and feelings? This is a truly contemporary story we see on TV screens and in cinemas every week!
The story shows partners being swopped – unknowingly on the part of the women, but very much intended by the men! The ending is unclear, do the lovers return to their original partners, stay with the new ones or indeed do the four of them live together happily ever after? The audience is left to decide…
The opera was performed several times in forward-looking Vienna but after Mozart’s and the Emperor’s deaths began to be considered quite shocking and so was hardly ever performed anywhere throughout the 19 century.
Although the VNOB has performed this opera before, this production is a new, shortened version directed and conducted by Graham Sutcliffe.
The opera will be performed entirely by members of the VNOB – in Italian – with Vietnamese and English subtitles. There are six roles of which the two soprano roles, Fiordilgi and Dorabella will be sung by Pham Ha Thang Long and Huong Diep/Phuong Dung. Gugliemo and Ferrando, the two male roles are sung by Phan Duc and Thanh Binh, and Kieu Tham and Anh Vu. Don Alfonso will be sung by baritone, Manh Dung, and Despina by Vanh Khuyen.
Ticket
Ticket prices: 200.000, 300.000, 400.000, 500.000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over www.ticketvn.com, ticketvn@gmail.com
For free delivery Call: www.ticketvn.com, 0913489858, 0983067996, 35651806, 66617859.
Chamber Music Concert
Tue 09 Oct 2012, 8 pm
HCMC Opera House
No. 7 Lam Son Square, D.1, HCMC
The chamber concert program at Ho Chi Minh opera house in Octorber 9th 2012 evening is organized by Ho Chi Minh city Ballet Symphony Orchestra and Opera, provides special chamber music works from renowned composers of Romantic Music as well as the famous pianists in their time: Schumann, Brahms, Grieg, Gershwin, Henryk Wieniawsky. Their works for piano solo and ensemble as well as their talent in performing are successful and bring the passion for the audiences all over the world.
The concert will be impressive with works of two most representative names of American Classical Music: George Gershwin and Leonard Bernstein. Liberal music and a little sounds of Jazz from Gershwin as well as arias from Bernstein’s music.
This program will be performed by top artists of HBSO: Mer.A. Nguyen Tan Anh, Ly Giai Hoa, Dao Nhat Quang, Tang Thanh Nam … and special guest artists: pianist Joo Eun Young who is trained in Russia and now has successful career in Europe, soprano Cho Hae Ryong – the voice is familiar and admired by Vietnamese audiences.
PROGRAM
Part I
Edvard Grieg – Sonata for violin and piano No.3
Violin: Nguyễn Trúc Thuyên
Piano: Lý Giai Hoa
Robert Schumann – Adagio & Allegro in A Flat Major for Cello and piano
Cello: Mer. A. Nguyễn Tấn Anh
Piano: Nguyễn Thùy Yên
Leonard Bernstein – Arias from opera ”Candide” for soprano and piano
Soprano: Cho Hae Ryong
Piano: Joo Eun Youn
George Gershwin – Preludes for clarinet and piano
Clarinet: Đào Nhật Quang
Piano: Joo Eun Young
Part II
Henryk Wieniawsky – Polonais Brilliant for violin and piano
Violin: Tăng Thành Nam
Piano: Joo Eun Young
Johannes Brahms – Piano Quartet No. 1 in G Minor
Violin: Nguyễn Trúc Thuyên
Viola: Bùi Anh Sơn
Cello: Mer. A. Nguyễn Tấn Anh
Piano: Nguyễn Thùy Yên
Ticket
Ticket prices: 300.000 – 250.000 – 150.000 – 60.000 (for students)VNĐ
Ticket booking and delivery: 08.3823 7419; info@hbso.org.vn; http//www.hbso.org.vn
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Welcome the third int'l percussion festival
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01/10/2012 09:29:20
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Female iconography, sexuality to go on show in Hanoi
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01/10/2012 09:22:49
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"Venus in Vietnam" exhibiton
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01/10/2012 09:21:40
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New destination in West Lake for audiophile's dream
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01/10/2012 09:19:39
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Special thing about Octoberfest
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01/10/2012 09:17:24
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Take a visit to a village drum maker in Vietnam
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01/10/2012 09:14:51
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The apperance of Hanoi International Film Festival
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01/10/2012 09:12:52
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Vietnam with the interesting news with International arrival is rising
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01/10/2012 09:02:34
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Concentrating on developing Northeastern region tourism
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01/10/2012 08:59:59
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