Life in Vietnam

Free-milk-for-kids program to be revised
30/06/2011 03:15
LookAtVietnam - The Ministry of Labor, Invalids and Social Affairs (MoLISA) December 26 ordered its subdivision, the Administration for Protection and Care of Children, to set up a new project to provide free milk for young children. Plans for the “Providing milk to pupils”...
VNPT to increase broadband capacity
30/06/2011 03:13
� VDC’s network currently has a capacity of 45Gpbs, which accounts for over 70 percent of the country’s total.� � From 2006 to 2009, VDC’s MegaVNN was voted the most popular broadband service by the readers of Vietnam’s PC World Magazine. The service...
Mediterranean splashes into Old Quarter
29/06/2011 04:59
When I heard about a new Italian sea cooking restaurant with a Vietnamese chef managed by a half-French half-Italian lush, I was struck by the increasing multi-cultural nature of Ha Noi. There are restaurants and bars from every continent here in the capital and some cuisine, Italian...
A cake of ardent love between husband and wife
29/06/2011 04:55
he skin is made by grinding and filtering large-sized grain glutinous rice to retrieve the starch. The starch of this rice will be mixed with scraped green papaya and soaked in the juice of the fruit of cape jasmine, which makes the skin both crispy and glutinous and gives it a light...
What do you know about banh khot?
29/06/2011 04:53
However, many Vietnamese know that the neighbors of HCMC, especially Vung Tau City, are well-known for having many stalls selling delicious banh khot. A banh khot stallholder on Ba Cu Street in Vung Tau City, who has been named Ms. Muoi by guests, said that the general method to make banh...
Low salary, state employees dare not to have baby
29/06/2011 04:49
“I don’t see our future. We can’t return to the countryside because there is no suitable job for us there. In Hanoi, the living cost is very expensive and it is really a big challenge for us”. Mr. Quang, an IT expert at a ministry in Hanoi, has been a state...
Old man of the mountains
29/06/2011 04:44
Now at the ripe old age of 86, the French ethnologist Georges Condominas recently returned to Vietnam to exhibit his photos, diary, and other collectibles which document his life 50 years ago in Sar Luk village amongst the M’Nong Gar ethnic people, in Dak Lak province. Condominas...