Tuesday , November 5 2024

Life & Love

Vietnamese-American woman returns to her roots

Feeling isolated in the U.S. because of her mixed heritage, Sasha Mai relocated to Vietnam, where she finally began to feel she belonged. Mai celebrates the last night of the lunar year yachting on the Saigon River in January, 2023. Photo by VnExpress/Minh Tam Born to a father who served …

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Vietnamese use public ACs to escape heat wave

Every evening over the past week, Hoa and her husband took their 10-year-old daughter to the department store, which is two kilometres away from their house, to enjoy “free air-conditioning.” Going to department stores to avoid the hot weather has become the 36-year-old woman’s family ritual. On sunny days, their …

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A response from an ex-lover

We were each other’s first love. Our relationship lasted 10 years, even after all the pain I caused her during our many reconciliations over the years. Today I received a letter from my ex-girlfriend. We officially broke up four years ago as I was seeing another girl at the time. …

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Parents battle children’s video game addictions

Parents battle children’s video game addictions

Duc Anh and his wife tried every solution they could think of. They installed a surveillance camera in their home and even resorted to beating their son. Still, they couldn’t prevent him from wasting away his life playing video games. Anh, a 38-year-old resident of Nam Tu Liem District in …

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Does applying egg whites on faces lead to infection?

People say raw egg whites contain many vitamins and minerals that can help eliminate oil residues on the skin and tighten pores. Is this true? (Thu, 26, Hanoi). There is currently no scientific evidence proving the safety and effectiveness of raw egg whites in skincare. In fact, raw egg whites …

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