December 19, 2011
Hoang Van Thiep (top left) and other members of a gang alleged of threaten other companies at gun point in order to get contracts to fill land and buy scrap materials at lower than market prices. The director of a construction consulting company in Ho Chi Minh City has been arrested for using guns to [...]
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February 6, 2011
Compulsory helmet law should apply irrespective of age, health experts say A boy sleeps without wearing a helmet as his mother rides her bike in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Horns blaring incessantly, a motorcyclist without a helmet snakes through a crowded street in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. His violation of traffic laws [...]
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December 12, 2010
Students unable to repay debts fear for their limbs Binh left his home in a nearby province and came to Ho Chi Minh City with dreams of a degree. Struggling with the high costs of living in the city, he failed to pay his university fees in October and ended up borrowing VND5 million [...]
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February 1, 2010
Residents in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8 built a makeshift dike with sand bags to preventhigh tides from flooding their homes. A project to tackle floods is still in the pipeline butwon’t fix the problem before Lunar New Year, which falls on February 14.LookAtVietnam – High tides are likely to submerge city’s low-lying streets [...]
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January 31, 2010
High tides are likely to submerge cityâs low-lying streets again over the holidays Residents in Ho Chi Minh Cityâs District 8 built a makeshift dike with sand bags to preventhigh tides from flooding their homes. A project to tackle floods is still in the pipeline butwonât fix the problem before Lunar New Year, which falls [...]
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January 26, 2010
LookAtVietnam – While kumquat and peach gardeners in the north are happy because they can be sure of a prosperous Tet sale season, gardeners in the south are more concerned. Kumquat and peach trees are on show in the homes of most Hanoians on Tet days, while southern people prefer to decorate their homes with [...]
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November 19, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Projects for establishment of suburban university campuses have been implemented at a snail’s pace. The campus of the HCM City University of Natural Sciences in Thu Duc districtAccording to Dr Nguyen Minh Hoa from the HCM City University of Social Sciences and Humanity, most of Vietnam’s universities exist in isolation. They [...]
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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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August 21, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A lot of high-grade apartments have been marketed in recent days with attractive preferences, but sales continue to be slow. It seemed that 2009 would be the right time for investors to market luxury products, which explains why a lot of new products have been launched onto the market recently. However, since the products [...]
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July 27, 2009
LookAtVietnam – A District 1 resident in HCM City recently visited a piece of land that he had purchased three months earlier in District 9, only to find it had vanished into thin air. Sand exploitation seems widespread and rapidly increasing in HCM City, causing land erosion in the city.A local official explained hundreds of [...]
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