Posts Tagged ‘ In Tan Phu ’

Funereal weddings 

July 2, 2011
Funereal weddings 

  Slick, illegal brokering machine ensures steady supply of poor young Vietnamese brides for South Korean men, a Thanh Nien investigation finds T., a 19-year-old woman from Kien Giang Province, at her wedding ceremony last month with a South Korean man One day in early June, Phuong gets a call informing her that two men [...]

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City college violates education permits 

June 23, 2011
City college violates education permits 

The front yard of a campus of Saigon College of Economics and Technology in Tan Phu District. A college in Ho Chi Minh City over many years has been over-enrolling and opening classes without permission.   Officials at Saigon College of Economics and Technology (SAIMETE) said the school in 2008 enrolled more than twice the [...]

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Land of dreams

December 22, 2009
Land of dreams

Foreigners at a café on Nguyen Thai Hoc Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Phu District. Ho Chi Minh City has become a haven for immigrants, some of whom are willing to work for a daily meal. Zimbabwean Lawrence came to Vietnam two years ago with a tourist visa and worked as an English [...]

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HCM City water utilities too broke to pay for pipes, meters

July 5, 2009
HCM City water utilities too broke to pay for pipes, meters

LookAtVietnam – Some areas without access to tap water in Ho Chi Minh City may have to keep going without, as suppliers can’t pay for promised pipelines and water meters. Residents in Tan Phu and Tan Binh districts live near Tan Hiep water plant but the water has never reached them.Nguyen Son Street is the [...]

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City water utilities too broke to pay for pipes, meters

July 4, 2009
City water utilities too broke to pay for pipes, meters

Some areas without access to tap water in Ho Chi Minh City may have to keep going without, as suppliers can’t pay for promised pipelines and water meters. Residents in Tan Phu and Tan Binh districts live near Tan Hiep water plant but the water has never reached them.Nguyen Son Street is the most populated [...]

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First-grade class sizes may leap from 35 to 50

May 26, 2009
First-grade class sizes may leap from 35 to 50

LookAtVietnam – HCM City’s Department of Education and Training is considering increasing first-grade class size to 50 students, on a case-by-case basis, for the upcoming school year because of rising enrolments. The department said first-grade enrolments in some districts had increased between 15 per cent and 25 per cent compared to the same period last [...]

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Phone electronics whiz faces robbery charges

May 26, 2009

Ho Chi Minh City police said Monday that they had pressed charges against a Chinese-Vietnamese who allegedly provided illegal international mobile phone services in 2008. Lao Ca Hong, 55, from Tan Phu District, who has been in custody since last June during the police investigation, had transmitted calls through international calling services to the Cityphone [...]

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Brazen teenagers flout law, attack police

May 22, 2009
Brazen teenagers flout law, attack police

A police motorbike in HCMC in a repair shop after racers rammed it with their vehicles. Doan Thanh Vinh, 18, didn’t care that a policeman, Duong Huu Toan, was ordering him to pull over. Instead he aimed the motorbike he was racing at the officer and crashed into him, knocking Toan unconscious. Toan had to [...]

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Cool license plates available for a price in Ho Chi Minh City

May 1, 2009
Cool license plates available for a price in Ho Chi Minh City

Many people in Ho Chi Minh City are making serious money by providing license plates to order, delivering traffic fines or retrieving motorcycles impounded by the police before they should be released A motorist (R) at the traffic police station in Tan Phu District makes inquiries about getting back his motorbike, which was impounded in [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...