October 22, 2011
A photo taken on October 18 shows houses submerged by flood waters in Tan Hoa District, Quang Binh Province Devastating floods in Vietnam’s central and southern regions have killed at least 59 people and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, the Central Committee for Flood and Storm Control reported Wednesday. Seasonal flooding [...]
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September 23, 2011
HCMC is considering collecting car tolls on several downtown streets The transport department of Ho Chi Minh City has presented a plan to collect car toll fees in the downtown districts 1 and 3 to reduce traffic jams and boost public transport, the Tuoi Tre reported Sunday.  Toll stations will be put up on 15 [...]
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September 9, 2011
Experts argue that the plan is not feasible and ignores broader initiatives needed to eliminate the gap between haves and have nots A homeless man sleeps on Nguyen Tri Phuong Bridge connecting districts 5 and 8 in Ho Chi Minh City. The municipal authorities are considering a plan to wipe out begging in the [...]
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April 16, 2011
Taxis parked under a “No Parking” sign on Pham Hong Thai Street in District 1 Ho Chi Minh City streets are shrinking everyday – and illegal taxi parking on busy streets is not helping. Last Friday, these Thanh Nien reporters found that taxis parked along the Bui Thi Xuan, Suong Nguyet Anh, Le Lai, Ton [...]
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January 24, 2010
Cars and motorbikes stuck in gridlock on Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Hai Ba Trung Street. A plan to charge cars entering downtown Ho Chi Minh City wonât unclog the metropolis, experts warn, arguing that parking space is the real problem and that outer districts experience the worst traffic. Pham Xuan Mai, a lecturer at HCMC [...]
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January 21, 2010
Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance; French Ambassador honoured for educational contributions; Dominican party names office after Ho Chi Minh; Vietnam, Algeria promote friendship, cooperation Vietnam seeks WIPO assistance Vietnam hopes to receive more assistance from the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), especially to finalise its legal system on intellectual property (IP) and train IP officials.State President [...]
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January 16, 2010
A new urban zoning plan in traffic-overloaded Ho Chi Minh City looks to establish four new socio-commercial hubs and six new districts alongside significant infrastructure development. The plan envisions four new âcity-centersâ to be built in District 9, Nha Be, Binh Chanh and Hoc Mon districts, according to an aggregate zoning plan approved last week [...]
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January 10, 2010
HCM City is set to become an industrial, service, scientific and technological hub in Southeast Asia by 2025, according to a revised master building and development plan recently approved by the PM. LookAtVietnam – Ho Chi Minh City is set to become an industrial, service, scientific and technological hub in Southeast Asia by 2025, according to [...]
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January 2, 2010
Prepaid subscribers pushing and shoving to register their personal information at a MobiFone store in Ho Chi Minh City Several new regulations will come into force on January 1 while others will be amended. 1. UNEMPLOYED TO GET PAIDJobless people who have paid unemployment insurance for at least 12 months since last January when the [...]
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December 27, 2009
The Ha Noi People’s Committee has urged districts to pay recently approved salary increases to pre-school teachers before the Tet holidays, starting February 14. The Ministry of Education and Training’s statistics show that there are still 90,000 non-permanent pre-school teachers out of a national total of 170,000.In September, the Government decided to boost kindergarten teachers’ [...]
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