Casual visitors to Vietnam may encounter some brief confusion over the depiction of large numbers. In Vietnam (similar to a number of other countries), the mark used to separate every three places in a large number is a point and not a comma. … [Read more...]
Light the Way
This weekend throughout Vietnam people are celebrating "Tet Trung Thu" or the Mid-Autumn Festival. It is often referred to as a children's holiday and is associated with harvest time and set by the lunar calendar always with the full moon. Families … [Read more...]
The right place of education in Vietnam
The English language Vietnamese news website VietNamNet Bridge has had a couple of good articles highlighting concerns related to education in Vietnam. The first asks the question, "Exam Season or Suicide Season?" reporting on the rise of depression … [Read more...]
Cham peoples celebrate Ramadan and Ramuwan
The Cham peoples of Vietnam are part of the remnants of the former Champa kingdom found throughout Southeast Asia. Differing reports of this group show their population in Vietnam as between 100,000 and 160,000. The Joshua Project lists two … [Read more...]
Cost of Living
A recent article from VietNam Net Bridge reported that the Vietnamese spend the largest proportion of their income on food. That article stated: "The increasingly high proportion of monthly income spent on food shows that the living standard of … [Read more...]
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