Tet is a great time to see Vietnamese traditions, games, and revelry. Public stages are set up throughout the country with free cultural shows, music, and entertainment. In the popular Pham Ngu Lao area in Saigon, special performances will be held for tourists. Much like during Chinese New...
Choosing gifts for Tet Festival is definitely not an easy task, due to the complicated norms and religion beliefs. Normally, Vietnamese will avoid giving kittens (as their meow sounds like “ngheo”- poor in Vietnamese), ink (because the color of black is considered bad fortune) and sharp...
Inside Out and Back Again is a 2011 children's verse novel by Vietnamese-American writer Thanhha Lai. The book won the 2011 National Book Award for Young People's Literature and a Newberry Honor Award. She based the book on her experience of moving from Vietnam to live in t...
What locations did the communists target during the Tet Offensive? What was also known as the League for the Independence of Vietnam? What does communism have to do with the Cold War? What did the Khmer Rouge do in Cambodia? What were the Vietnam war protesters in the US called? What ...
This sector greatly contributed in increasing Vietnam’s export capacity and accounts for over 70% of the total export turnover of the country. Table 6 shows that Regime 1 belongs to the low-return state and has a mean of −2.30%; Regime 2 is the moderate-return state that has a ...
50 years ago, Vietnamese forces launched the Tet Offensive and changed how America saw the Vietnam WarBen Brimelow
I spoke briefly about my younger brother, Jim, who served in Vietnam during the 1968 Tet Offensive and saw a full year of combat, and then tried to explain what it was like for him to come home. I tried to explain that as much times as it takes to turn a civilian into a soldier...
(recognized by voices), some of the women who sell goods in style of snatching in Hanoi or quote over with the price on the sky, so you need to bargain before buying food. Many women sellers in Hanoi always assume that foreigner or oversea Vietnamese customers are screaming at the same...
Emmerick Doan, one of the organizers of the UVSA Tet Festival, which takes place from Jan. 27 to Jan. 29 at the OC Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, said there’s another theory that Vietnamese farmers often dealt with rats invading their crops, so they developed a special affinity ...
Well, here’s your chance to win a one-week language course in Kent, England! Free4Fun and ETC (English Travel Connections) are giving away two trips to Rochester. This historic city is less than an hour’s drive from London and close to the sea resort of Herne Bay. It is also the...