RSS comes to Vietnam

After a long period of gestation, some news websites in Vietnam are starting to supply RSS feeds:

• http://www.tuoitre.com.vn/Tianyon/RssView.aspx (Vietnamese)
• http://www.vietnamnews.net/rss.php (English)
• http://www.nld.com.vn/rss/ (Vietnamese)
• http://www3.thanhnien.com.vn/RSS/ (Vietnamese)
  

joining:

• http://www.rfa.org/vietnamese/rss.xml
  

which had long been the only available Vietnamese newsfeed.

In conjunction with the new RSS feeds, Tuổi trẻ Online is also inaugurating a news portal:

• http://portal.tuoitre.com.vn/

much in the mold of the Yahoo! news portal. Registration is required for customization.

New LC Subject Headings: "Chữ Nôm"

As of 27 July 2005, the Library of Congress has added these new Subject Headings:

• 150 Nom imprints [May Subd Geog] [sp2005004380]
• 150 Nom script [May Subd Geog] [sp2005004378]
• 450 UF Chu Nam
• 450 UF Chu Nom
• 551 BT Vietnam--Languages--Writing

thanks to Virginia Shih, Southeast Asia Librarian at the University of California, Berkeley, for her perserverance in promoting them.

It remains to be seen when the Library of Congress online catalog will finally switch to Unicode, in order to fully support Vietnamese.

A "Unicode Ding"™ for LC!