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How to cook ca kho to: deep flavour, whole pieces of fish and a glossy sauce

12/09/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Cooking guides - A good ca kho to is more than fish with an attractive brown colour. The pieces have to stay whole, the flesh just cooked and still moist, the sauce lightly glossy but not thick and gluey, and the ba ..

SCP-1000 Bigfoot: the terrifying secret of the apes that hid from humanity

20/06/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - In the darkness of the old-growth forests there is a creature that has watched humanity for tens of thousands of years without ever revealing itself. It is not the dim-witted animal people assume. I ..

How Did Moai Statues "Walk" on Rapa Nui?

12/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - The Rapa Nui people say that the moai "walked" from the quarry to the stone platforms. This claim was once dismissed as legend, but modern experiments show that a statue with the right shape can be ..

Italian aperitivo: the pause at the end of the day, between a drink and a conversation

01/10/2026
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World - World food culture - Aperitivo is not simply a happy hour. In many Italian cities it is the passage from work into the evening, when a drink alongside a few small dishes and a conversation slows the day's rhythm down. O ..

The Calligraphers on Hang Bo Street, near Tet in 1907, there seem to be few customers hiring them to write couplets.

30/07/2026
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Miscellany - Life around us - The Calligraphers on Hang Bo Street, near Tet in 1907, there seem to be few customers hiring them to write couplets. But each year they grew fewer Where are the patrons now? The red paper grieves, u ..

Train Street preserves a slice of memory, an ancient, rustic, and distinctly simple beauty of Hanoi

25/07/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - The railway corridor from Kham Thien to the Giai Phong-Dai Co Viet intersection and from Dien Bien Phu through Tran Phu, along Phung Hung Street up to Long Bien Bridge is lined with old houses, pres ..

Drinking enough water each day: reading your needs instead of forcing a number

02/11/2026
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Miscellany - Health & beauty - “Everyone must drink exactly two litres of water” is easy to remember but far too simple. Fluid needs change with the body, the weather, activity, food, pregnancy, illness and medication. A more sen ..

Da Lat chosen as the starting point for a journey to discover sunrises around the world

23/07/2026
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Miscellany - Life around us - National Geographic magazine has just selected Da Lat (Vietnam) as the starting point for a journey to discover sunrises around the world. img class="x_lazy" src=" alt="Da Lat chosen as the starting ..

[Nam Dinh] Dich Diep Trang - An ancient purely Vietnamese village over 1,000 years old

26/07/2026
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Miscellany - Life around us - Dich Diep Trang (Dich Diep village) in Truc Chinh commune, Truc Ninh district, Nam Dinh province, is an ancient village with a very long history. Dich Diep village was formed around the early 11th c ..

How to make Hoi An chicken rice: fluffy grains, juicy chicken and a crisp onion salad

16/10/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Cooking guides - A good Hoi An chicken rice has lightly golden rice with separate grains that smell of the poaching liquid, juicy chicken torn into decent pieces, and a gently tart dressing of onion and Vietnamese c ..

An Afternoon Wandering in Sau Village - Tan Yen - former Bac Giang, now (Bac Ninh)

23/07/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Sau Village in Bac Giang, with a history spanning several hundred years, is known as one of Vietnam's ancient villages. Situated along the poetic Thuong River, the village currently has about 200 ho ..

Roman Dodecahedron: Over 100 Artifacts but Not a Single Line of Instruction

11/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - More than a hundred dodecahedron-shaped bronze alloy objects have been found in the northwestern part of the Roman Empire. Each pentagonal face has a hole, and the vertices bear rounded knobs, but t ..

How to cook xoi gac: a beautiful red, chewy separate grains and never claggy

23/10/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Cooking guides - A good xoi gac has a natural orange-red colour, chewy but separate grains, a light sheen and no wet layer at the bottom. This recipe for 8-10 portions explains everything from choosing the gac, soak ..

Linear A: The Lost Script of Crete

12/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - While Linear B has been deciphered as Mycenaean Greek, its predecessor, Linear A, still keeps the language of the Minoans shrouded in secrecy. Linear A appears on clay tablets, vessels, and various ..

Helike: The Greek City That Vanished After the 373 BCE Earthquake

31/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - Helike was once so famous that ancient authors recounted that its ruins could still be seen underwater. When modern searches began, the biggest surprise was that the city was not located in the curr ..

[Photos] Visiting Binh Ba Island 2020

26/07/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Just 60 km from the resort paradise of Nha Trang, backpackers visiting Binh Ba Island can participate in various summer cooling activities such as swimming, scuba diving, enjoying lobster, or watchi ..

The food of Hue: where the royal kitchen, everyday dishes and small street stalls meet

14/10/2026
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Culture & Cuisine - Regional culture - The food of Hue is usually introduced with the word “royal”, but the flavours of the old capital also grew out of markets, riverside villages, the lagoon and small street vendors. Its refinement lie ..

The most mysterious places in the world

01/08/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - There are many places in the world today that still hold mysteries for humanity. Science keeps advancing, yet researchers have still not found answers to these puzzles of the past, which leave anyon ..

UVB-76: The Mysterious Buzzing Sound Broadcast for Decades on 4625 kHz

14/09/2026
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World - Mysteries & the bizarre - On 4625 kHz, an intermittent buzzing sound has repeated day after day since at least the early 1980s. Occasionally, the channel marker stops, a Russian voice reads out a call sign, code words, and n ..

A Series of Collages Contrasting Two Realities

30/07/2026
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Miscellany - Life around us - Artist ugurgallen makes a strong impression with a series of collages contrasting two realities. Each frame juxtaposes joy and tragedy, art and war, forcing viewers to reflect on the modern world. i ..

How to eat out without getting ripped off: spotting red-flag eateries and handling the bill

11/08/2026
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Travel & Backpacking - Tips & sharing - Getting ripped off is rarely random. It happens in places where three conditions exist at the same time: passing tourists who won't return a second time, menus without clearly displayed prices, and ..