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Life & Love

Pop star fined $3,000 for ‘suicidal’ MV

Pop star fined $3,000 for 'suicidal' MV

Son Tung M-TP faced a fine of VND70 million ($3,050) while his MV titled ‘There’s No One At All’ was permanently deleted for depicting controversial, violent and suicidal content. ‘There’s No One At All’, Tung’s first English MV, contains images, actions, means of expression, and forms of performance that carry …

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Man proposes to girlfriend while paragliding

Nguyen Anh Tuan took his girlfriend, Truong Le Cam Ly, by surprise when he asked her to marry him in mid-air. They had gone paragliding from Vien Nam mountain in the northern Hoa Binh province on April 23 when Tuan saw her fly close to him at 1,000 meters above …

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Vietnamese increasingly buying homes in US

More and more Vietnamese and people of the diaspora in the U.S. are buying houses in that country as they grow increasingly affluent. Hailey Pham, a realtor based in Seattle, Washington, works around the clock to keep up with Vietnamese clients’ brisk demand for buying homes. She says they include …

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Central Vietnam sees holiday tourism surge

The number of visitors to central Vietnam for the Reunification Day-Labor Day holiday has exceeded expectations. During the four-day holiday, from April 29 to May 3, Khanh Hoa Province, home to beach town Nha Trang, saw 275,500 visitors, a 119 percent increase from the same period last year. The province’s …

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Vietnamese short animated feature to compete in Cannes

Vietnamese short animated feature to compete in Cannes

‘Spring Roll Dream’, a short animated film by Vietnamese director Mai Vu, is set to be screened at the Cannes Film Festival’s category for works by film-school students. The ninth-minute animated work is a graduation project of Mai Vu – a student of the National Film and Television School (NFTS) …

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International visitor numbers quadruples in April

The number of foreign visitors increased by 4.6 times to nearly 70,000 in April from the previous month when Vietnam opened its borders. There were arrivals from traditional markets such as Europe, America and South Korea and also new markets such as Mongolia, Kazakhstan and India. On April 29, Da …

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