Schooling in a far remote region

Is she a backpacker who is travelling on a swift stream to enjoy the beauty of nature? No, it's not true. It is a teacher in a far remote region who goes to the first day of school opening.

Wearing a school bag on the back, she doesn't put on a life vest and a boat seems to be almost sunk into a stream.

With a smile on her face, she seems to be unaware of a grim reaper that is waiting for her at the river bed if she falls down in water. On a riverside are some adults looking at her, even one takes a photo of her as if it is common sense to take a boat in such a setting.

Schooling is a noble job to help children on their path to a bright future. Thus, the safety of teacher's life must be paid attention. Nobody recognises it, even a local government ignores this issue while teachers play a key role in the national development. How poor for teachers in such a region.

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A bizarre sign in Phu Quoc beach

A "second to none" sign "No lying on the beach Phu Quoc" caused a shock to tourists. Local restaurants put signs banning tourists lying on the beach Phu Quoc instead of renting their beach chairs. Due to the reaction of people, they had to pull out this sign.

Eco-friendly wild beach Phu Quoc offers resorts that include bungalows with a sea view. Tourists find some activities such as snorkeling, diving, and fishing on their own request.

For more information, visit the following link Tuoi Tre online.

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Pieces of rice fields

Pieces of rice fields captured from above are characteristics of Vietnam's farming. Ever-green pieces are paddies after a time of growing. In some pieces of land, people are bowing to put seeds. Pale yellow pieces are areas that are already seeded. Many spots on pieces are buddles of paddies to grow.

For more photos, visit a link photos.

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Ethnic minority people Chi La

Before reading the small content that depicts the photo above, you take some minutes to think what it is. If you guest what it is, you cool man.

It is wet rice fields of ethnic minority people Chi La who live in the northern Vietnam. The majority of these people live on farming. The image above describes a wet rice field, a person is walking a narrow path meandering across a field.

Chi La People's houses are built on stilts. It includes three parts. The main part consists of an ancestor shrine. Each household has a gong and a drum to be used in ritual ceremonies led by a head of a family lineage.

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Dai Tong Lam Pagoda

Dai Tong Long Pagoda sits in Vung Tau City, southern Vietnam. It was built in 1958 by veteran Thich Thien Hoa and was renovated in 1982. Its campus is near 100 hectares. Dai Tong Lam is seen as a pagoda whose number of Buddha statues ranks the top of Vietnamese pagoda. A record number is more than 10,000.

The campus consists of a learning institution that has the capacity of about 1,000 learners. The sanctum is well noted as is ranked the largest one among Vietnam's pagoda. It was constructed in 2002 with 90 meters long and 46 meters wide.

More information in the link: Dai Tong Lam Pagoda. The content is Vietnamese.

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Men's long dress.

In Vietnam's traditional wedding, a groom and a bride all wear long dresses. A Vietnamese girl in a long dress is used to represent Vietnam. The Vietnamese are proud of the traditional wear as it honors the gracefulness of Vietnamese girl's slim silhouette.

Nowadays, the western trend in clothing hooks young people's attention. It is also convenient to work in the office, to have a meeting, a reception in luxurious hotels where they meet their foreign colleagues.




However, the upper-class people want to make their wedding original by wearing long dresses. A groom and a bride wear different long dresses during a process of their wedding.

The dress above is designed 3D sophisticatedly with white background and black highlights. This sort of business is getting better off.

If you want to see more photos, visit the following link. However, the content is in Vietnamese.
man's long dress

Massive wedding of a hundred of lovers

It is not a parade for a statutory holiday or a promotional procession but a massive wedding organized by a local government. It is an idea to help young people in a community who are in need to get married. They may be manual workers in suburban factories, maids, nail makers who have to leave their home land to land a job. Their monthly wages make both ends meet, how they can hold their wedding by their own.

The interest of the society in this regard is worthy of appreciation. It is a people-to-people interest that helps people overcome difficulties of material to come together in a couple's happiness.

Annually, Ho Chi Minh City's local government (Vietnam) organizes a massive wedding for a hundred of couples of lovers whose parents are too poor to hold a wedding party for their beloved children. This is a model that should be adapted to bring happiness to young people in love.

Every couple is offered a bicycle with which a groom drives a bride in a parade downtown. They are clad in traditional wedding wear. In a basket of a bicycle, there is a wedding crowd of a bride. A bride sitting behind wears a conic hat, holding a groom's waist, a romantic scene.

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Vu Lan Festival (Vietnamese Mother's Festival, Ghost Festival)

Some people call Vu Lan Festival, others name Ghost Festival as souls are in search of mercy. And a lot of others Vietnamese Mother's Day. Whatever it is. the day takes place on the 15 of July of the lunar year (September 5, this year). As the second largest festival in Vietnam after the Lunar New Year, it is a nation-wide celebration among families, businesses.

In Buddha's belief, the seventh month of the Lunar New Year is a month of spirits.Wandering souls are believed to return to their families. 

A legendary story has suggested that Buddha's disciple named Muc Kien Lien saw that his deceased mother was tortured in the hell. According to Buddha's advice, he gathered monks and devotees to pray for his mother's relieve. Thus, the meaning of the festival is to show gratitude and appreciation towards parents and help ancestors' wandering souls return the earth.

On this day, Buddha followers go to a pagoda, wearing a white rose, to pray for their decent parents, particularly their died mothers.

For further information, visit the following link: Vu Lan Festival.

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Facial expressions on the opening day of school

After three-month summer vacation, the first day of schooling is the hardest day of some of our kids. They don't like going to school but stay away from school to play with their next door friends. When their parents take them to school, they don't want their parents to leave them at school. Crying, shouting are common scenes on that day. 

Here are some facial expressions of such kids. 

 

If you are curious to know more facial expressions, visit the following link (the content is in Vietnamese) Facial expressions on the opening day of school

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A class fallen down caused a dozen of students to be injured.

A class in Dong Da School, Lam Dong Province, Vietnam, fell down on 26 August 2017, causing the injury of 10 students whose learning was under way.

The school was built in 1956, including 20 classrooms. The board of directors of school reported to the Service of Education of Lam Dong Province the downgrade of school and suggested the cease of its operation. But there is no reaction from this service. In fact, the school rebuilt some classes that used to be offices with the unqualified material. It has not confirmed yet that the collapsed classroom is one of the rebuilt ones.

Luckily, all students are all in a piece after hospitalizing.

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Land slide in Hau River

A land slide occurred in Hau River, southern Vietnam, on 22 August 2017. This incident drowned nearly a dozen of houses in the river. 

A victim related that her house including a daughter, a son and her at that moment, drowned in the river. She and her daughter didn't know to swim. Luckily, the son swam to rescue both of them. 

The land slide is a phenomenon that has frequently happened in the southern Vietnam due to illegal exploitation of sand at the bed of a river. The local government has ignored this violation.   

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Power shovel is used to save human being

A flood hits Son La Province. A Tua's wife is sick but she can hospitalize as her residential area is isolated by a flood. In such a difficult situation, he comes up with a wisdom. A power shovel is used to bring him and his wife to pass over a stream.

People in this area lack minimum living conditions: health care, education. That is why they are ill-educated and live on farming from generation to generation.

A photo above tells a reality story in this region. A wife is severely sick and her husband finds any solution to bring her from a far remote house to a hospital in a flood. In such a risky setting, people express real a love.

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