Articles - Articles en-us http://www.pix-aid.org N/A http://www.pix-aid.org 5flagsweb@gmail.com 20 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/37/1/VIETNAM-Uphill-battle-to-raise-awareness-of-bird-flu/Page1.html HAI NAM , 29 August 2008 (IRIN) - The key message that needs to be heard is that Avian Influenza (AI) is endemic in Vietnam and needs to be controlled, say UN officials involved in the battle to identify and contain avian influenza outbreaks. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/35/1/VIETNAM-Employing-improved-technology-against-typhoons-flooding/Page1.html AN GIANG, 19 August 2008 (IRIN) - Vietnam is experiencing more frequent and powerful typhoons and floods, and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report 2007-2008 has said as many as 22 million Vietnamese could be displaced if sea levels rise by one metre. The government is collaborating with UN agencies and the humanitarian community, as part of its overall disaster preparedness plan, to design effective ways to hold back the increasingly damaging storm surges and flood waters that wreak havoc on vulnerable rural communities. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/34/1/VIETNAM-Floods-in-north-leave-145-dead-or-missing-and-communities-isolated/Page1.html HANOI, 12 August 2008 (IRIN) - An estimated 145 people are reported dead or missing and more than 4,000 buildings damaged or destroyed in northern Vietnam after tropical storm Kammuri lashed the region with heavy rain and high winds for two days from 9 August, according to the Central Committee for Floods and Storm Control. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/31/1/Detention-of-journalists-sparks-web-debate/Page1.html It would seem like the press in Vietnam is getting freer and freer, but the arrest of two journalists and a once-renowned investigator shows that any recent progress is tenuous. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } carofinlay@gmail.com (Caroline Finlay) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/30/1/Ban-on-street-vendors-threatens-livelihoods/Page1.html HANOI, 23 June 2008 (IRIN) - For the past decade, Nguyen Thi Lan has risen at 3am to boil up a pot of sticky rice. Before the sun comes up, she packs it into a bamboo basket, secures it to her bicycle and begins the long ride to Hanoi. In the city, she serves up scoops of rice sprinkled with dried pork, peanuts and sesame seeds and on a good day she will return home with $3.50. span.jajahWrapper { font-size:1em; color:#B11196; text-decoration:underline; } a.jajahLink { color:#000000; text-decoration:none; } span.jajahInLink:hover { background-color:#B11196; } info@irinnews.org (IRIN News) Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/25/1/Street-Food-and-the-Gentrification-of-Vietnam/Page1.html Are street vendors soon to be a thing of the past in Vietnam? The women in conical hats balancing fruit and vegetables on their shoulder or the man selling hot "banh mi" from the back of his bicycle create an atmosphere cherished by tourists and a service and tradition to locals. But to some, beyond higynic arguments, these scenes don't mix with modernization and the development of Vietnam. info@globalvoicesonline.org (Global Voices) Mon, 25 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/24/1/Hanoi-Sounds/Page1.html Caroline Finlay is a former Biomedical Engineer from Boston who decided one fine day to take one of life's mighty curves and head for Vietnam where she is studying Vietnamese and Lao to embark upon a career in journalism and writing. She has agreed to let us have a peek at some of her experiences meeting people in their languages.You can read her other blogs at her personal website. This is the first of her articles for Pix-Aid. carofinlay@gmail.com (Caroline Finlay) Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.pix-aid.org/articles/20/1/The-ambiance-of-Hue-restaurants/Page1.html Photo: Vo Xuan HuyIn one of his trip chronicles, the writer Hoang Phu Ngoc Tuong wrote about people who indulge in pleasures. People from Hue are famous for being hard-working, yet they have a penchant for noble pleasures. Their pleasures are neither overspending money nor parties all day and all night long, but the very cultivated pleasures in a remarkable manner. This manner is clearly manifested in the ambiance of Hue’s restaurants. khanhhatrt@yahoo.com (Khoa Dieu Ha Nguyen) Mon, 02 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0500