December 19, 2011
A woman looks up at the 33-floor building where her colleagues were trapped by a fire in Hanoi Thursday. She was among 40 workers rescued by the local fire deparment. The 33-floor Hanoi building that caught fire Thursday, injuring 11, failed to meet fire and safety regulations, an official told Thanh Nien Friday. To Xuan [...]
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November 17, 2011
Vietnamese lawmakers questioned the safety of projects to build golf courses in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Son Nhat International Airport and Hanoi’s Gia Lam Airport at a National Assembly session on Thursday. NA Deputy Vo Thi Dung from Ho Chi Minh City delivered her question to Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung about the [...]
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October 25, 2011
A couple pass by a pancake a day after a powerful earthquake in the town of Ercis in Van province, Turkey, Monday, Oct. 24, 2011. Hopes faded Tuesday of finding more survivors as rescuers under floodlights scrabbled desperately through the rubble of an earthquake that killed at least 279 people in eastern Turkey. The rescue [...]
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October 14, 2011
The central area of Hanoi, which comprises the four downtown districts of Ba Dinh, Dong Da, Hai Ba Trung and Hoan Kiem, has not seen much development over the past few years, a contrast to the fast growth seen at other new urban areas in the capital city. Modernizing central Hanoi while retaining its [...]
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October 10, 2011
Service fees at apartment buildings will start at VND2,400 per square meter Hanoi’s municipal administration has put a maximum ceiling price of VND4,000 per square meters on monthly service fees that apartment buildings can collect from residents. Service fees will start at VND2,400 per square meter and cover the maintenance of infrastructure, use of elevators [...]
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October 8, 2011
Residents of five upscale apartment buildings in Hanoi have sought the capital city administration’s help in preventing service fees from being hiked unreasonably. According to a report in Monday’s Tuoi Tre newspaper, the residents at 93 Lo Duc Street, The Manor, Golden Westlake, Keangnam, and Sky City have complained that the prices for services [...]
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October 7, 2011
Dinh tinh truong (Governor's palace) on Ly Tu Trong Street, Da Lat. The Central Highlands resort town of Da Lat will upgrade its two most outstanding, beautiful French-styled palaces. The local authorities said the two buildings, including Dinh I (Palace I), built in 1925-1928, and Dinh tinh truong (governor’s palace), built approximately in 1910, will [...]
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July 24, 2011
A man uses his mobile phone in Lenin Park, Hanoi. Many parks across Vietnam have been taken legally or illegally for projects to build hotels and trade centers. While many countries in the world are currently working to restore green spaces with more trees and parks in their metropolitan cities, Vietnam seems to be bucking [...]
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April 24, 2011
Prime office spaces struggle to attract tenants in HCMC Visitors look at models of residential and office towers at a real estate exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City. A surplus of office spaces has pushed down rental rates. As increasing supply applies downward pressure on rentals, the office space segment has become a buyer’s [...]
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April 10, 2011
Vietnam lacks solid seismic standards for high-rise construction and few guarantees for apartment buyers Residents stand outside an apartment building in Hanoi’s Linh Dam residential area after an earthquake on March 24. The quake has raised questions about the quality of apartment towers in the country. A 6.8 magnitude earthquake erupted along the border [...]
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