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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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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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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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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July 18, 2009
A file photo of Nguyen Van Khoe, ex-chairman of Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Hoc Mon District Peopleâs Committee The ex-chairman of Ho Chi Minh Cityâs Hoc Mon District Peopleâs Committee will be prosecuted for abetting a company swindle over VND10.5 billion (US$590,000) from a bank, the cityâs prosecutors said Friday. Nguyen Van Khoe, 55, will [...]
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June 16, 2009
With the capacity to treat 21 tonnes of waste per day, the toxic waste treatment plant being constructed in Dong Thanh is the big hope for HCM City in solving the medical rubbish and industrial waste problem. The model of the toxic waste treatment plant in Hoc Mon district, HCM City. Construction of the plant [...]
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May 16, 2009
Nguyen Van Khoe is the second ex-district mayor in Ho Chi Minh City to stand trial on graft charges Former chairman of HCMCâs Hoc Mon District Peopleâs Committee could be charged with abetting a company swindle around VND10.5 billion (current value US$590,560) from a bank, city police said Friday. Police are recommending that the city’s [...]
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May 9, 2009
The use of underage jockeys might close the only racecourse in Vietnam, involved parties fear, after the illegal practice came under the authorities’ scanner recently. Fifteen-year-old jockey Vu Thanh Tu waits before the start of a race at the Phu Tho Racecourse in Ho Chi Minh City. The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Labor, [...]
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