January 3, 2012
Leeches have been spreading rapidly in Ho Chi Minh City ’s Hoc Mon District. Locals began breeding them based on demand from China , but dumped them in local fields and other areas after the main buyer closed shop three months ago. Vietnam’s agriculture ministry has issued a ban on the breeding of leeches [...]
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December 3, 2011
A man in Ho Chi Minh City cautiously stretches a leech. Locals are worried the uncontrolled population of the blood-sucking worms could harm their children People in certain Ho Chi Minh City areas are having sleepless nights worrying about a leech invasion after an enterprise buying them to send to China moved suddenly last month, [...]
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September 10, 2011
NGO Loreto officer Stephanie Nicole Giles poses for a photo with the kids after giving them packs of gift at Vo Van Thoi Primary School in Hoc Mon District on Sept 7 The Loreto Vietnam-Australia Program (LVAP) donated notebooks and pens to over 1,600 kids at seven primary schools in Ho Chi Minh City on [...]
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January 22, 2011
HCMC health officials check food products at the Binh Tay wholesale market. Health inspectors from Ho Chi Minh City disposed of nearly 3,000 eggs that did not meet food safety and hygiene requirements during an inspection carried out Tuesday. The inspection also found many pork bologna samples contaminated with borax, as well as nearly 51 [...]
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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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December 4, 2009
Sixty-eight years after the French colonial authorities executed Party General Secretary Ha Huy Tap in HCM City, his remains have been found by family members. The excavation of Ha Huy Tap’s remains in late November. On December 1, a special Vietnam Air flight repatriated Tap’s remains from HCM City’s Hoc Mon district, where they were discovered, [...]
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November 10, 2009
As of November 13, only the pavements in Districts 1, 3, 9, 12, Phu Nhuan, Tan Binh, Cu Chi and Nha Be will be free from businesses and services, the local government announced. The city also restricts the number of roads where vehicles are allowed to park on the sidewalks. There are 12 out of [...]
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October 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Hundreds of students at the Saigonact are protesting against the college’s decision to force them to learn in places with overly poor conditions. The classrooms at campus No 5 in Hoc Mon district also look like workshops. It seems to be cooler here than campus 4. However, students have to deal with the [...]
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September 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Many parents are up in arms after a primary school in HCM City’s Hoc Mon District transferred more than 100 children to another school citing lack of rooms. The dangerous-looking spiral staircase at Tay Bac Lan Primary School, where more than 100 children from Bui Van Ngu Primary School in Ho Chi Minh [...]
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August 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – After only one week, HCM City People’s Committee has had to rethink its ban on the sale of meat and vegetables anywhere except in supermarkets A temporary market on Pham Ngu Lao street in HCM City’s district 1. A week ago the city planned to ban the sale of food at temporary or [...]
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