La Phu, 20km from Hanoi, was known for its silk products in the past and now for wool weaving. It is also famous for its pig procession and offerings on the night of the 13th of lunar January.

This custom was started a long time ago. The village temple has many precious exhibits including royal proclamations from the 17^th century honoring a general who struggled for the peace of the village. It was said that the general, born on the seventh of lunar January, had trained his troops in La Phu village. Whenever the enemy troubled the area, the villagers prepared steamed sticky rice and pigs to give a feast to the general and his troops before the fight and after victory. The villagers then decided to select the thirteenth of lunar January to mark the general's death and his contribution......

At 12am on February 20 (Hanoi time), Ha Long Bay was ranked first on the New 7 Wonders of Nature Nominees Ranking while the second and third position belonged to Bangladesh’s Cox’s Baza Beach and Sundarbans Forest.

The other two contenders from Vietnam were listed in the top five, namely Fansipan Mountain and Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park. Fansipan rose to fifth while Phong Nha – Ke Bang maintained its position at fourth. 
 
Voting online for nominees will continue through December 31. Then, a panel of experts will create a list of 21 candidates from......

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They are poor farmers who sell fruits, work as motorbike drivers or porters, etc. Their lives consist of work and they grasp any free minute to nap.

My country is developing day by day, but still poor. People from country-sides come to some big cities to earn their living.Of course, they have no place to stay(real houses), they have to rent small rooms without facilities with a quite high price.Everyday, they have to work so hard to support for themselve, and even for their relatives in the hometown.They just can get maximum 100,000 VND= 7USD per day with the job. Working so hard but a very little money, they can sleep whenever they are free("no buyers").Some people also work at night to get more money...

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Each day Dinh Bang villagers in Tu Son District, in the Northern province of Bac Ninh, slaughter thousands of rats that they sell for at least VND35,000 = 2,2 USD per kilo. To buy rat meat, customers must place orders several days in advance.

Nearly 100 big rats are the result of 13 hours of field hunting by a Dinh Bang villager, Nguyen Van Phu. “Rats are becoming scarce so I have to go deep in the fields in the neighboring districts to hunt,” Phu said.

Phu’s wife, named Linh, took each rat from the cage to put in a boiling water pot, saying: “Dong Ky village......

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VietNamNet Bridge – Children swam in the river. People bathed in the river. Men sat drinking on the terrace of their stilt houses near the riverbank. Women washed clothes in the river. A big stuffed bear was hanging to dry with some clothes on a fence.

Jungle safari: Visitors take boat ride along a coconut tree-lined canal.

When our boat passed by, children and teenagers on the riverbank jumped and waved their arms at us.

As we travelled along the Mekong River in Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, the scenes of people’s lives at different spots were all quite similar.

The sinuous 4,184km Mekong......

The new James Bond film has begun production at London's Pinewood Studios, but this time James Bond has two new Bond Girls, U.S. media reported on Thursday.

Ukraine actress Olga Kurylenko arrives for the screening of "Paris Je T'aime" which opens the "Un Certain Regard" competition at the 59th Cannes Film Festival May 18, 2006. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo)

Olga Kurylenko and Gemma Arterton will co-star in the latest installment of the 007 franchise opposite Daniel Craig, who made his debut as Bond in 2006's "Casino Royale," the latest and highest grossing film in the series.

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Legend has it that a mandarin under the Le dynasty named Trinh Xuan Bien was sent here to placate the disgruntled locals around 300 years ago.

When he arrived he discovered the villagers were living in abject conditions, so he decided to teach......

VietNamNet Bridge – On one side of the softly sloping Cham Mountain outside Hue in central Vietnam is a small pagoda surrounded by a verdant beauty so otherworldly that visitors feel they’ve just stepped into the Elysian fields.

The 6,000-sq.m area, called Van Tung Son, or thousand pine mountain, is covered with a lush......

VietNamNet Bridge – Located around 380 kilometers from the capital city of Hanoi, over 1,600 meters above sea level and listed as a famous Vietnamese attraction, Sapa attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year to see the colorful of national costumes and unique cultures of the ethnic groups living there.

A new report found that three employees at the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department violated policy in actor-director Gibson's misdemeanor drunk driving arrest, media reports said Friday.

Hollywood superstar Mel Gibson. (File Photo)

Sheriff's personnel neglected to take Gibson's palm print upon his release, follow proper procedures before driving him to a tow yard to retrieve his car and sign a certain department form, the report said.

The report also discussed the controversy as whether Department officials attempted to censor the original arrest report in order to deflect attention from alleged inflammatory......

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According to Liberated Saigon Newspaper, of the 200 nominated sites, Vietnam has two other locations ranked on the NewOpenWorld website, Phong Nha – Ke Bang (16^th) and Fansipan (19^th).

NewOpenWorld is asking all host countries of nominated sites to set up a council to campaign for the selection.......