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Ho Chi Minh City’s biggest corn market
Ten kilometers outside Ho Chi Minh City, a wholesale corn market exists where traders from the Mekong Delta gather to distribute their produce to retailers in the southern metropolis.
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Cherry blossom in demand in Hanoi
Many people in Hanoi are flocking to the streets buying branches of cherry blossom to decorate their house for the last full moon of the Year of the Rooster.
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In high-pole lion dance, Vietnamese women prove they match male peers
Twenty-two young girls and women, aged ten to 35, have teamed up to make Vietnam’s unique troupe of lion dance on high poles, a kung fu-required technique usually practiced only by men.
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American joins Vietnamese volunteers to clean up trash on Kitchen Gods’ Day
A young American man joined Vietnamese volunteers in cleaning up litter under a bridge in Hanoi on the traditional Kitchen Gods’ Day on Thursday.
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Robot waitress enthralls diners in Ho Chi Minh City
The apron-wearing robot, called ‘Co Ba’ (Miss Ba) in Vietnamese, was designed by a group of undergraduates from the University of Technology and Education (UTE) in Ho Chi Minh City.
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