Friday, November 21, 2008
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 Yen Sao Festival: November 3 (lunar October 6)
 Ok om bok Festival: November 12 (lunar October 15)
 Ke Khau Village Festival: November 13-15 ( lunar October 16-18)
 Nguyen Trung Truc Temple Festival: November 15-16 (lunar October 18-19)
 Nhi Khe Village’s Festival: November 22 (lunar October 25)
 Kate Festival: July (Cham calendar, around early October of solar calendar)
 Thang Festival: October 5-8 (lunar September 7-10)
 Ha Dong Festival: October 7-13 (lunar September 9-15)
 Keo Pagoda Festival: October 11-13 (lunar September 13-15)
 Va Temple Festival: October 13 (lunar September 15)
 Co Le pagoda festival: October 13-18 (lunar September 15-20)
 Lang Ong Festival: August 31 (lunar August 1)
 Cua Ong Temple Festival: September 2 (lunar August 3)
 Do Son Buffalo fighting festival: September 8-9 (lunar August 9-10)
 Mid-autumn Festival: September 14 (lunar August 15)
 Kiep Bac Festival: September 14-19 (lunar August 15-20)
 Con Son Festival: September 15-19 (lunar August 16-20)
 Nguyen Trai Temple Festival: September 15 (lunar August 16)
Land & People
By Thuong River

Bac Giang – the mid-land region well-known for cultural, historical and human beauties and traditional crafts – has seen big changes and developments over the years.

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Tien Giang Province, a beautiful and rich area

Since the 17th century, the fertile land in the North of the Tien River has been reclaimed and developed by generations of inhabitants into an area with rich rice fields, fruit gardens, and busy trade along the river banks. Gradually, the brisk market towns of My Tho and Go Cong emerged in the fertile Cuu Long (Mekong) River Delta. This area is Tien Giang Province.

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Son La, the pearl of North-western Vietnam

Son means mountain and La means stream. Son La Province originates from a stream on a mountain. Through 110 years of development since its founding, the stream is still running around 12 fraternal ethnicities who have created great strength, making the province a shining pearl in the North-western region of the country.

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Changes in a historical land
Whenever I think of historical regions, Thai Nguyen always appears in my mind as the headquarters of the leadership of the resistance war against the French colonialists (1946-1954). Sixty autumns have gone now and the locals in this historical land have witnessed numerous changes for the better.
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Can Tho on a developing path

Ảnh: Quang Minh
Can Tho, the gateway to the whole downstream area of the Mekong River, is an economic and cultural centre and an important hub of regional and international transport in the Mekong River delta and the whole country as well.

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Ha Nam with policies to attract investors

During our stay in Ha Nam, we realized two contrasting pictures, one of a peaceful countryside with immense yellow rice fields and peaceful handicraft villages animating with sounds of shuttles and the other of a bustling life of industrial zones, sounds of mine exploding, excavators and drillers in the quarry site.

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A visit to “The valley of light”

The residents in Tuyen Quang Province are proud of their native land and its development. Over the past half a century, the province where people of 22 ethnic groups live together has experienced great socio-economic changes that brought a better life to the locals and changed the thinking and working habits of the authorities and people in the new period of time.

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Fields of dreams

Ảnh: Kim Sơn
Soc Trang Province is a land bearing many imprints of reclaiming land and fighting against foreign aggressors by people of Kinh, Khmer and Hoa (Chinese) ethnic groups, who have always united together in good and bad times and are now joining their efforts to improve their socio-economic life and preserve their unique cultures.

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Dung Quat Industrial Zone is taking off

Ảnh: Văn Chức
Located in the poor area of Quang Ngai, 860 km away from both Hanoi Capital in the North and Ho Chi Minh City in the South, Dung Quat area has been zoned off and become the focus in the economic development strategy of Central Vietnam and the third biggest economic centre of the country.

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: :  Published stories
.:: The promised land of Thanh Nam (2/2005)
.:: Attraction of Quy Nhon(1/2005)
.:: Prosperity on the basaltic soil(12/2004)
.:: The ancestral land of Hung Kings(11/2004)