Many people have expressed their concern on the announcement that local pop singer Dam Vinh Hung will release 500 real butterflies during a performance at his concert this month.

To prepare for the special performance at the live show titled "So Phan” (Destiny), to be held on July 21 and 22 in Ho Chi Minh City, the singer and the show’s director, Tran Vi My, said they have ordered the above amount of butterflies from a farm run by a disabled girl in Da Lat.

The director also added the show’s organizers will release the butterflies at a rehearsal to get a sense of the technique and safety problems. "To make the butterflies appear on the stage in accordance with our idea, we have to prepare magnetic field generators and lighting machines to lead them to fly the way we want them to,” he said.

However, the public seems unsupportive of the idea. They said the large number of the animals will have a negative effect on the audiences’ health.

Responding to such fears, the director added that his crew will pay close attention to the audiences’ safety. The organizers also have alternative plans in case the butterfly plan does not end up happening.

Doctor Le Duc Tho from HCMC’s Hoan My Hospital also gave some advice on this. According to him, the butterfly is not a toxic species, but it ... Xem thêm

Police in several northern provinces have busted (bắt) a large-scale drug-trafficking ring between Vietnam, Laos and China, arresting 18 traffickers and seizing (tịch thu) a large quantity of drugs, cars and money, along with a handgun (súng ngắn).

The bust was carried out successfully thanks to the joint effort of the ministry’s anti-drug police and police in Hanoi and Quang Ninh, Son La, Hoa Binh, Bac Giang and Hoa Binh Provinces, said Major General Nguyen Anh Tuan, head of the ministry’s Department of Drug Crime Investigation Police Department.

After months of investigation, a joint police team raided room 1004 of the CT1 Building in Van Khe Urban Area in Ha Dong District, Hanoi on the afternoon of July 3, and found 89 cakes of heroin, nearly 34,000 drug synthetic drugs, 1 kg of Methamphetamine, a K59 gun and six bullets, a motorcycle, and materials related to drug trafficking.

The police arrested a man, Nguyen Duy Thang, 28, and a woman, Nguyen Thi Thuy Duong, 24, both ... Xem thêm

Police in the Mekong Delta said on Wednesday they arrested a college student as he was selling fake university entrance exam answers to parents waiting outside a college.

Dinh Thanh Liem, a 20-year-old at Tay Do University in Can Tho, was hawking (bán hàng rong ) the answer sheets to parents waiting for their children at the Can Tho Junior College exam council, city police said.

Liem reportedly admitted to investigators he downloaded last year’s answer key and altered ( sửa đổi / sửa lại ) their date before distributing them for VND3,000 (14 U.S. cents) per copy. He sold roughly 50 in all.

At the junior college, students were taking the math portion of a two-day national college admission test that ended Thursday.

Vietnam requires all college-bound students to take the exam, which alone determines which school will accept them.

(theo giao duc) - Phát biểu trong lễ tốt nghiệp của các học sinh lớp 12 Trường trung học Wellesley High ở bang Massachusetts (Mỹ) tuần trước, giáo viên tiếng Anh David McCollough Jr đã gây sốc khi nói thẳng: "Các em chẳng có gì đặc biệt”.

Thế nhưng, bài phát biểu của David McCollough lại được nhiều tờ báo và hãng tin Mỹ đăng tải, và thu hút được hàng chục ngàn comment (bình luận) trên mạng Internet, phần lớn đều ủng hộ thông điệp của ông McCollough.

Trong bài diễn văn tại lễ tốt nghiệp năm 2012, thay vì lặp lại những câu sáo mòn như "Chúng tôi rất tự hào về các em”, "Các em rất tài năng”, "Thế giới là của các em”..., ông McCollough đưa ra một thông điệp mà giới truyền thông Mỹ mô tả là "Xin chào mừng các em đến với cuộc đời thực”.

Wellesley High là trường công nổi tiếng ở thị trấn giàu có Wellesley, có truyền thống lâu đời và từng sản sinh nhiều nhân tài cho nước Mỹ. David McCollough Jr là con trai của nhà sử học - nhà văn David McCollough, người từng đoạt giải thưởng Pulitzer.

Trước các học sinh của mình đang xúng xính trong bộ đồng phục tốt nghiệp giống nhau, đang háo hức cầm trên tay tấm bằng, McCollough dõng dạc nói rằng "Các em chẳng có gì là đặc biệt”, "chẳng có gì là phi thường”! Một gáo nước lạnh như được giội xuống mọi thành tích vẻ vang của trường!

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Hotel staffs in the red-light districts have often become reluctant witnesses to tricks and traps set up by prostitutes to rob or steal money and other assets from their male clients.

Usually, a client who appears loaded enough with money will fall victim to their traps, with the aid from other male gangsters who are also their pimps.

After leaving a wedding party in Hoc Mon District after having a few drinks, NVD picked a street girl on his way home on national highway 22 near An Suong Bus Station. They agreed on a ‘happy deal’ of VND200,000 (US$10) for an hour of fun.

After NVD had paid VND50,000 ($2.5) for a room in a nearby motel, the girl changed her mind and insisted on raising her ‘labor cost’ to VND500,000. While he was trying to cut a bargain with her, she abruptly left the room.

NVD rushed out after her only to run into three rough-looking men waiting outside who punched him in the face and asked him to pay VND500,000 if he did not want to be beaten up.

After taking VND500,000 from him, they further demanded that he pay another VND200,000 to cover for their fuel cost to get to the motel. Not wishing to risk his life, NVD bitterly complied with the request.

In the face of these incidents, hotel staffs often choose to stay out as they do not want to get involv ... Xem thêm