A center for the support of marriages between Vietnamese and South Korean nationals was established on Thursdayin the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho. The Vietnam-South Korea Center for Joint Care is located in Phu Thu Ward, Cai Rang District, offering free legal counsel and training courses for Vietnamese women married to South Korean men. Diep Thi Thu Hong, chairwoman of Can Tho’s Women Union, said the center is the first of its kind in Vietnam. It is supposed to provide economic, legal and psychological support for Vietnamese women married to South Korean husbands. The center also helps the children of those interracial couples to integrate with their community, Hong said. Attending Thursday’s opening ceremony of the center, Consul General of South Korea in Ho Chi Minh City Lim Jea-hoon stressed the importance of acknowledging the bright sides as well as the shortcomings of Vietnamese-Korean marriages in order to strive for a better future. Children born to interracial marriages play at the Vietnam-South Korea Center for Joint Care in Can Tho City, January 25, 2018. Photo: Tuoi Tre Vietnamese women constituted 27.9 percent of foreign brides in South Korea in 2016. Vietnam is topping the list of countries with the highest number of brides in the East Asian nation, according to the National Bureau of Statistics of South Korea. Most of these women come from Vietnam’s Mekong Delta region, where a large number of divorced women and fatherless children of failed interracial marriages face challenges while being re-introduced to life… [Read full story]
Locals in the Cho Gao District of southern Vietnam’s Tien Giang Province have been losing sleep over a lone pig-tailed macaque that has appeared out of nowhere, wreaking havoc and terrorizing residents. Over the past month, the monkey has been frequently spotted in Cho Gao’s Quon Long Commune, destroying crops, killing pets and poultry, and even attacking residents. According to locals, the monkey comes at around 3:00 am – 4:00 am, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm and 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm every day. The animal is described as extremely hostile toward humans, often destroying fruit farms, killing chickens and…... [read more]
The Don ca tai tu (dilettante singing and music performance) is both an traditional art and a stylish pleasure in the Southern rural. Everywhere in villages and communes, clusters and hamlets in Tra Vinh province, there are groups and clubs of this art form. However, the best-known for their traditional history and operation quality are those in communes of Hoa Thuan and Luong Hoa (in Chau Thanh district),My Long and Hiep My (in Cau Ngang district), Cang Long town (Cang Long district), and Dinh An (in Tra Cu district) etc…The session of Inter-Govermental Committee about protecting the 8th intangible cultural…... [read more]
Typhoon Tembin is on its track toward southern Vietnam and has been forecast to make landfall on Monday evening. The tropical storm, the 16th to hit Vietnam this year, will hit the mainland from the southern province of Ba Ria-Vung Tau to Ca Mau Province in the Mekong Delta, according to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting. The typhoon started sweeping through Vietnam’s Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelago on Sunday evening, uprooting trees and blowing off house roofs. It was located 410 kilometers east of Con Dao Islands off Ba Ria-Vung Tau at 4:00 am on Monday, producing winds at 100…... [read more]
An Giang Province is well known for its Ba Chua Xu Temple. However, the province also attracts tourists with its idylls, simplicity and peacefulness, which perfectly represent Vietnam’s rural areas.An Giang is located in the Mekong Delta, the southwestern part of Vietnam, near the border with Cambodia.It is one of the most populous provinces in the area, with a considerable portion of the population being indigenous people.Chau Doc and Long Xuyen are the two main cities of An Giang. Many visitors choose to visit An Giang in the belief that it is not as crowded and bustling as other destinations.An Giang…... [read more]
A newly formed storm is heading towards the East Vietnam Sea and is expected to impact the country’s southern region sometime over the next few days. According to the National Center for Hydro-meteorological Forecasting, Typhoon Tembin was located in southern Philippines at 7:00 am on Friday, packing winds at 90 to 100km per hour and gusts of up to 149km an hour. The storm is set to travel westward at 20km an hour over the next 24 hours. The typhoon is forecast to reach 330 kilometers southeast of the Philippines’ Palawan Island by 7:00 am on Saturday, picking up speed…... [read more]
