Stories about Vietnam from October, 2010
Vietnam: Analysis on blog arrests
Saigonnezumi from Vietnam provides some background to the “crackdown’ of bloggers in Vietnam in the past year.
Video: One Minute Jr video nominees for 2010 Awards
The nominees for each of the 3 categories in the One Minutes Jr project competition 2010 have been selected. In each of the categories of (Self)-portrait, Inside-Out and One Minute of Freedom there will be one winner who will be awarded a JVC Piscio HD Hand-Camera. The nominees are all...
Vietnam: Price control
Charvey reacts against the imposition of a price control mechanism in Vietnam and suggests other ways to deal with rising prices of goods in the market.
Miss Earth Pageant and Vietnam's environment problems
Referring to the Miss Earth Pageant which is scheduled for next month in Vietnam, blogger The Fish Egg Tree relates it to the environmental problems of the country.
Vietnam: Hanoi’s 1,000th birthday festivities
Hanoi is 1,000 years old. The festivities to mark the historic occasion in Vietnam lasted for ten days from October 1-10. Bloggers share their observations and reactions about how the events were organized.
Vietnam: Faculty shortage
A Vietnam-based blogger writes about the faculty shortage and other problems plaguing the local universities.
Incorrect names of places in Southeast Asia
Paul Wilding reminds everybody that Laos, Saigon, Bangkok, and Burma in Southeast Asia already have new names.
