October 11, 2011
 Nguyen Thi Lanh, 106, and her youngest daughter, 71, from HCMC’s District 12. She and her husband, Huynh Van Lac, 110, have been certified by Vietnam Records Book as the country’s oldest couple. Huynh Thi Hoa, 71, says that ever since her parents reached the age of 90, during every Tet Festival their home [...]
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August 27, 2011
Pham Thi My Linh, 18, stands in an outdoor trial on August 23, 2011. A court in Ho Chi Minh City sentenced an 18-year-old girl to nine months in jail Tuesday for slapping a traffic policeman on the street last month. Pham Thi My Linh was found guilty of “resisting an executive officer in performance of [...]
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August 14, 2011
A man injects a chemical solution into a jackfruit to make it ripen quicker Fruit farmers in southern Vietnam are injecting their produce with chemicals to make them ripen quicker and go rotten slower. Â Orchard owners and fruit dealers — particularly those dealing in jackfruit and durian –Â have also been found soaking their goods [...]
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January 21, 2010
A boy walks through Thanh Xuan Ward in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 12. Thousands of people on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City are up to their knees in sewage after a drainage project began blocking a local canal two weeks ago. The company in charge of construction at the site has refused [...]
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January 10, 2010
A broken section at An Suong Apartment complex in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 12. Families displaced by infrastructure projects find themselves barely scraping by in crumbling tenements. Every morning, Le Van Thanhâs tap spews out a black, coffee-like liquid, which he then filters and boils to use for cooking throughout the day.He says thatâs [...]
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December 22, 2009
Flower growers may have a difficult holiday season this Tet (Lunar New Year festival) as many ochna gardens in the city have already blossomed while the holiday is still three months away. Many ochna gardens in HCM City have reached full bloom much earlier than expected due to bad weather, which may be a bad [...]
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October 8, 2009
A flood tide which began rising in the evening of October 6 has damaged parts of the Saigon River embankment, submerging roads and flooding houses in HCM City. Many sections of the Saigon River’s embankment in Thu Duc District and District 12 were broken at 7pm on October 6. Local residents said water flowed very [...]
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September 23, 2009
LookAtVietnam – To improve traffic in HCM City, the local authorities have completed a priority list of key traffic infrastructure works that need US$250 million from now to 2010. Nam Ky Khoi Nghia Road, HCM City. LookAtVietnam – To improve traffic in Ho Chi Minh City, the city’s Department of Transport has recently completed a [...]
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September 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Many asphalted roads in HCM City center have been improved and repaired, while the quality of some roads in the suburbs of the city have become seriously damaged. Work to improve Dang Van Bi street is not complete yet, poor road surfaces, environmental pollution. (Photo: SGGP)LookAtVietnam – Many asphalted roads in Ho Chi Minh [...]
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August 23, 2009
A pilot project to restore order to door numbers in four HCM City districts has run into the dead-end of unnamed streets and construction plans. LookAtVietnam – A pilot project to restore order to door numbers in four Ho Chi Minh City districts has run into the dead-end of unnamed streets and construction plans that [...]
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