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- Bắc Ninh: Hàng ngàn người về xem Hội Rước Pháo Làng Ðồng Kỵ
Hàng ngàn người từ các tỉnh lân cận và Hà Nội đã đổ về làng Ðồng Kỵ thuộc xã Ðồng Quan, Huyện Từ Sơn, tỉnh Bắc Ninh (cách Hà Nội chừng 50 km) để xem hội rước pháo truyền thống vào sáng Mùng 4 Tết.
- Baghdad: Nổ bom xe ngay khách sạn bộ trưởng, 4 người chết
- Báo "Thanh Niên" chọn chín vụ án lớn nhất Việt Nam trong năm 2003
- Bầu cử Tổng Thống Hoa Kỳ:
- Các chính phủ Á Châu đồng ý lập hệ thống theo dõi bệnh cúm gà
- Các chuyên gia thấy có tiến triển tốt trong cuộc đối đầu ở nhà tù Arizona
- Cán bộ lão thành tố cáo lãnh tụ Ðảng tham nhũng, không sửa sai
Một cán bộ cao cấp nghỉ hưu có 57 tuổi đảng lên tiếng tố cáo nhiều lãnh tụ Ðảng tham nhũng và chế độ Hà Nội làm nhiều điều sái quấy, hại dân nhưng không chịu sửa sai.
- Sáu quân nhân Phi Luật Tân bị thẩm vấn vì tố cáo Bộ Trưởng Quốc Phòng vi phạm tự do bầu cử
- Cựu Thanh Tra Kay: Tình báo Hoa Kỳ trước cuộc chiến Iraq là có lỗi lầm
- Dải Gaza: Giao chiến khiến có ít nhất chín người Palestine chết
- Dịch cúm gà xuất hiện ở Hà Nội và đã lan ra tới 31 tỉnh
- Hà Nội: Sông Hồng cạn nước trơ đáy
- Hà Sĩ Phu bị công an kiếm chuyện sau khi đi Hà Nội chữa bệnh
- Hoa Kỳ thả hơn 20 tù nhân từ nhà tù Guantanamo
- Hoa Kỳ thành lập “Văn Phòng Thông Tin Giáo Dục Hoa Kỳ” tại Sài Gòn
- Feasting, Vietnamese style
With the Lunar New Year almost here, we asked some of the people who know food best to give us some advice on cooking, shopping and some really great eating.
- With canines, the more the merrier
Every year is a 'year of the dog' for this family.
- With canines, the more the merrier
Every year is a 'year of the dog' for this family.
- Going home
Danny Graves left Việt Nam as a toddler and didn’t return for 31 years. In some ways, he felt as if he had never been gone.
- Going home
Danny Graves left Việt Nam as a toddler and didn’t return for 31 years. In some ways, he felt as if he had never been gone.
- Winter wonderland
The Winter Olympics only come around once every four years. Here’s a guide to the 2006 edition.
- Winter wonderland
The Winter Olympics only come around once every four years. Here’s a guide to the 2006 edition.
- My name is my home
This writer gives his reasons for choosing his Vietnamese name over his American one.
- My name is my home
This writer gives his reasons for choosing his Vietnamese name over his American one.
- The spoken word
Learning English can be a tough task. Here are some helpful hints.
- The spoken word
Learning English can be a tough task. Here are some helpful hints.
- Fresh faces forward
Người Việt staff gets a spring makeover
- Fresh faces forward
Người Việt staff gets a spring makeover
- So long, Đạt Nguyễn
Just what did the Vietnamese American football player truly mean to America?
- So long, Đạt Nguyễn
Just what did the Vietnamese American football player truly mean to America?
- Haute, she wrote
Julie K.L. Đàm, is not just a new voice among young Vietnamese American writers, but someone who, in her debut novel, chose to move away from her contemporaries’ obsessive focus on their culture to, well, obsessively focus on another culture, lacing her observations with details about stilettos and scent.
- Haute, she wrote
Julie K.L. Đàm, is not just a new voice among young Vietnamese American writers, but someone who, in her debut novel, chose to move away from her contemporaries’ obsessive focus on their culture to, well, obsessively focus on another culture, lacing her observations with details about stilettos and scent.
- Her Việt Nam
The women of the North so captivated photographer Nancy Hoàn Lê that she snapped 2,000 pictures of them. Now, she wants her images to inspire people to raise funds for a worthy cause.
- Her Việt Nam
The women of the North so captivated photographer Nancy Hoàn Lê that she snapped 2,000 pictures of them. Now, she wants her images to inspire people to raise funds for a worthy cause.
- Of history and modernity
A new exhibit of the áo dài shows Việt Nam’s past and present.
- Of history and modernity
A new exhibit of the áo dài shows Việt Nam’s past and present.
- Home shopping French style
They wanted to be more than just tourists on their frequent visits to the City of Lights, so they decided to buy an apartment. What ensued was an eye-opening venture into a foreign world of real estate.
- Home shopping French style
They wanted to be more than just tourists on their frequent visits to the City of Lights, so they decided to buy an apartment. What ensued was an eye-opening venture into a foreign world of real estate.
- Happy birthday, Vietnamese America
This writer makes birthday wishes as he, and the community, are about to turn 31.
- Happy birthday, Vietnamese America
This writer makes birthday wishes as he, and the community, are about to turn 31.
- Some petits fours, a cup of tea and Mom
With Mother’s Day approaching, why don’t you think about taking her to a tea room?
- Some petits fours, a cup of tea and Mom
With Mother’s Day approaching, why don’t you think about taking her to a tea room?
- Golden celebration
The last hurrah of a rousing, four-day celebration of achievement known as VANG, the Vietnamese American National Gala, finally kicked off before 8 p.m. Saturday in a city called a Mecca for Asians, in a ceremony attracting nearly 750.
- Golden celebration
The last hurrah of a rousing, four-day celebration of achievement known as VANG, the Vietnamese American National Gala, finally kicked off before 8 p.m. Saturday in a city called a Mecca for Asians, in a ceremony attracting nearly 750.
- Charting her course
Orange County's Thùy Mi Đinh is looking forward to making a big splash at the U.S. Naval Academy.
- Thư độc giả "Chuyện từ thiện"
Kính thưa tác giả có tên là Nguyễn Mỹ Linh (“Mùa Từ Thiện,” báo Người Việt ngày 21 tháng 11). Nếu tôi đoán không lầm là người nữ. Vâng thưa Bà tôi hoàn toàn đồng ý với Bà 100%.
- Chuyện vỉa hè: Vài lời tâm huyết gửi các cháu Dziệt Kiều
Phải nói ngay rằng: bài này tớ dành riêng cho lớp Dziệt Kiều vào tuổi u 50 - u60, nghĩa là đồng trang lứa với hơn... 60 cháu nội, ngoại, xa, gần của tớ đang sống và làm việc ở khắp thế giới mà tớ đã tính sơ sơ được. Con số này phải lên tới vài trăm nếu kể cả các cháu, con của bạn bè đồng học, đồng đội, đồng hương... nhưng nay chẳng may cũng bị gọi là Dziệt Kiều (còn yêu nước nhiều hay ít thì chưa biết). Tớ không dám ý kiến ý cò gì với các vị trưởng lão Việt Kiều ở cùng tuổi tớ hoặc là đàn anh của tớ vì tớ tin chắc rằng, đối với các vị này, mọi lời khuyên nhủ, xúi bẩy đều... vô tác dụng!
- Ðoàn tu sĩ, giáo dân thăm cha Lý bị chặn
Một nhóm tu sĩ và giáo dân Công Giáo từ nhiều nơi về Hà Nội đã đến bệnh viện của Bộ Công An thăm Linh Mục Nguyễn Văn Lý nhưng đã không được cho gặp.
- Ðại học Mỹ dưới mắt sinh viên quốc tế
Kể từ sau cuộc Chiến Tranh Lạnh, khoảng thập niên 1990, với sụp đổ của khối Cộng Sản Quốc Tế, gồm Liên Xô và các nước Ðông Âu, dẫn đến việc Hoa Kỳ đương nhiên trở thành siêu cường Số Một của thế giới, số sinh viên quốc tế đến du học tại Hoa Kỳ bắt đầu gia tăng mạnh. Mức độ sinh viên quốc tế chọn Hoa Kỳ làm nơi ăn học càng gia tăng hơn nữa sau khi Cộng Sản Trung Hoa và Cộng Sản Việt Nam khởi sự mở cửa ra thế giới bên ngoài với các chính sách hiện đại hóa và đổi mới nền kinh tế của họ.
- Hòa nhạc giỗ 10 năm nhạc sư Nguyễn Bích Ngọc
Một loạt nhiều buổi hòa nhạc gồm hầu hết các nhạc sĩ cổ điển hàng đầu của Việt Nam dự trù được tổ chức tại Nhạc Viện Sài Gòn. nhân dịp kỷ niệm lễ giỗ 10 năm nhạc sĩ Nguyễn Bích Ngọc, một người thầy violin lâu năm của trường này.
- Cha chặt tay con gái
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- Kỹ sư gốc Hoa bị nghi đánh cắp tài liệu mật hãng Ford
Một kỹ sư Trung Quốc bị bắt vì tình nghi ăn cắp tài liệu mật của hãng xe Ford. Công tố liên bang cho biết người này sẽ trực diện thêm nhiều cáo buộc khác, một khi có thêm nhiều tài liệu nữa được tìm thấy từ máy laptop bị tịch thu.
- Chuyện nước Pháp: Phát tiền gây ra cảnh náo loạn (Từ Nguyên)
Internet Mailorama, công ty của Pháp mua bán qua Internet, hoạt động đã lâu muốn có thêm khách hàng, hứa hẹn một chuyện hấp dẫn: phát 5,000 phong bao... cho khách qua đường, trong đó có chứa giấy bạc từ 5 Euro đến 500 Euro, tổng cộng là 40,000 Euro. Thay vì trả tiền cho các công ty quảng cáo, làm vậy cũng là một lối quảng cáo... thần sầu.
- Chuyện nước Pháp: Phát tiền gây ra cảnh náo loạn (Từ Nguyên)
Internet Mailorama, công ty của Pháp mua bán qua Internet, hoạt động đã lâu muốn có thêm khách hàng, hứa hẹn một chuyện hấp dẫn: phát 5,000 phong bao... cho khách qua đường, trong đó có chứa giấy bạc từ 5 Euro đến 500 Euro, tổng cộng là 40,000 Euro. Thay vì trả tiền cho các công ty quảng cáo, làm vậy cũng là một lối quảng cáo... thần sầu.
- Tê giác còn sót ở Việt Nam
Tê giác, một loại thú rừng quí hiếm sống ở các khu vực đầm lầy rừng rậm ở miền Nam Việt Nam trước kia, có dấu hiệu còn một vài con chứ chưa hoàn toàn tuyệt chủng.
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- $350,000 cặp bao tay của Michael Jackson
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Chloe Ðào arose early Sunday morning in a Miami hotel to catch a flight home to Houston. She’d spent Friday and Saturday there to attend a friend’s bachelorette party, probably her first days off since last June when she got entangled in the whirlwind of cameras and chiffon.
They might be her last days off for a while, too. She is one hot commodity.
The winner of season two of “Project Runway,” Bravo’s Emmy-nominated, fashion-based reality show hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum, has become a household name. The program, which first aired on Dec. 7 and culminated with Ðào’s victory episode that aired March 8, pitted 16 aspiring fashion designers in a contest for the $100,000 first prize, a new car and a spread in Elle magazine.
“Tomorrow, I’m flying back to Miami to do ‘Project Runway’ casting for season three,” said Ðào, 34. “This season, they’re casting in L.A., Miami, New York and Chicago.
“But,” she said, “I don’t take any of it for granted.”
Ðào’s win on the series is a tribute to her determination and her work ethic, fueled by her parents.
Born in Pakse, Laos, to Vietnamese parents two years before the fall of Sài Gòn, the entrepreneur spent the first six years of her life in Asia. In 1979, her mother and father took their eight daughters and immigrated to the United States.
“We were really, really good kids,” she said. “We’ve all worked since we were little, since we got here to the States. We had a small chain of dry-clean shops, and a bar and snack stand at a local flea market where we would have to work every weekend.”
She recalled the dread she and her siblings would feel as the end of every school week approached. “I remember that we hated Fridays because we knew we would have to start working. It’s OK, though; we always got what we wanted. We just knew we had to work for it... which has made me who I am today.”
Of the eight girls, a couple of them became pharmacists, a couple of them got into computers, one became a hairstylist, and one a stay-at-home mother of three. And then there was Chloe.
She entered the University of Houston to study marketing, but it wasn’t meant to be. Fashion tugged at her. She enrolled in the fashion-design program at the University of Houston and later at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. After school, she plunged into the fashion industry, her duties growing in responsibility, and decided in 2000 to open her own boutique, Lot 8, in Houston.
While taping the show, Ðào relied on her sister and business partner, Sydney, more than ever. Sydney, who is in charge of public relations and sales, worked double time.
“Sydney is the fashionista,” Ðào said. “I’m second to her. There are days, though, when I dress like a homeless woman in my garage.”
When the opportunity to take part in “Project Runway” came along, posing the opportunity of a lifetime, Ðào was game.
“My mom didn’t understand why I was doing the show. I don’t think she really understood the magnitude of it,” Ðào said. “She said to me, ‘You have a business here. Why don’t you stay and take care of it?’ In the family, only Sydney and I, who are into fashion, followed the first season. I was addicted, which is why I decided to try out.”
And she was accepted. The filming took place in New York last June and July. Each of the season’s 11 episodes, which contained “challenges,” was taped morning to midnight, back-to-back.
When she got the call saying she had been chosen for the series, she was told the contestants would be given six yards of muslin and $20 for trim just a few days before shipping off to New York.
“We were supposed to create this garment that represented who we were as designers, and we had to bring it with us,” she said. “I think I got only five days. It was crazy to pack a month’s worth of clothes while having to make this piece. We brought our garments to be judged in New York, where we learned that, ‘Surprise!’ we weren’t actually the finalists; we were the semi-finalists. Two people got dropped that day.”
Her favorite challenge? The “Clothes off Your Back” segment, where she had to redesign what she happened to be wearing into a whole new outfit. Her least favorite? Creating a gown for the model Iman. The fabric she had hoped to use wasn’t available and she had to settle on silk charmeuse, which is what two fellow competitors were using.
Her new-found acclaim definitely has had a drastic impact on her personal touch at Lot 8, which got its name for the eight girls in her family. Duly noted as a hands-on manager, Ðào has to now adapt her tried-and-true business practices to cater to her rapid celebrity.
“Since the season finale aired, nothing in the store has been mine. Once this settles down, I’m going to have to hire some cutters, and just focus on producing. Right now, I cut downstairs with my sister. I sell upstairs with my aunt and mom. The demand for my clothes is growing, but right now, there’s nothing of mine in there!”
The flurry of activity surrounding Ðào has kept her from much involvement in the growing creative community in Houston. “How involved am I?” retorted Ðào. “I’m not involved at all. When you’re small, you’re doing everything. Literally, you have to be in your own world. I would love to support people if there was time, but right now, there’s just no time. I’m always either in the front selling, or in the back doing alterations.”
Still, Ðào’s victory is just one more reason for Houston’s large Vietnamese community to take note of her achievements, which already had been proud of and delighted by her consistently flawless execution, her sense of style, and her simple, yet intricate, designs. Ðào admitted that she finds the adoration a bit intriguing.
Regarding a recent offer to act as an honorary guest on Thúy Nga’s “Paris By Night,” she mused, “I would do it just so that my mom could see that I did it.”
Ðào said she is part of a Vietnamese American community that is becoming more diverse in its choices.
“I’m not technically second generation, but I consider myself to be,” she said. “I mean, here you have the Vietnamese punk rocker, the Vietnamese chick, the Vietnamese rapper. You are in America. You are what you eat and speak. It’s great to be an Asian American, not just an Asian in America.”
In her field, Ðào has had to learn to appeal to all types of women who have all types of shapes. She also is a noted expert on the complexities of the female form.
“We’re (Lot 8) in an affluent area. As I’ve said before, our customers range from 15 to 50 years old. They are all people who like clothes, who like fashion. They are all people who like to dress up and go out,” Ðào said. “Asian women, I think, are pretty lucky in the playing cards. We’re pretty petite, but we’re still curvy.” |