Meanings of thiền in English

A villages in Thua Thien-Hue province where the Motorbike Book Club is operating.

But, as Madeleine Thien's powerful new novel reminds us, leaving the past behind is rarely simple.

Flooding led to a 30km tailback on Vietnam's main north-south highway in Thua Thien Hue province.

Landslides have eroded many sections of the north-south Ho Chi Minh highway in Thua Thien-Hue province.

Le Quoc Thien describes looking for the snares and stone traps left throughout the prized forest region.

Nearly 900 passengers on north-south trains were stranded in Thua Thien-Hue province, the official Vietnam News Agency said.

The bodies of the soldiers were transferred to a hospital in Thua Thien Hue for funerals, the government said.

Asked by Guardian Australia whether his real name was Thien Nguyen, both the man and his friend denied it.

Climate change is also factor in the drought, said Nguyen Huu Thien, an independent expert on the Mekong Delta's ecology.

That Thien is able to do this at all is thanks to the alliance of the Vietnamese government, WWF and the German development bank.

Nguyen Thien Nhan, head of Vietnam's Fatherland Front and a politburo member, was named as the new party chief for Ho Chi Minh City.

Tests of seawater in Thua Thien-Hue, one of the affected provinces, showed higher than normal levels of some pollutants, the province's environment department has said.

We leave the train here and take a boat up the Song Huong - the Perfume River - as far as the famous Thien Mu Pagoda.

Thien was also named for the Man Booker Prize earlier this month.

(There is a street in Hanoi called Dwong Thien Thang B52 - Avenue of the Victories over the B-52s - but this is the exception rather than the rule.)