December 5, 2011
Ha Long Bay, recently listed as one of the new seven wonders of the world, should have higher admission fees commensurate with its prestige, Tuoi Tre quoted a local official as saying Saturday. Do Duc Thang, deputy chief of the bay’s management board, made the statement two days after the Quang Ninh People’s Committee began charging nearly twice as much [...]
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August 19, 2011
UNESCO is looking for a logo to represent the My Son Champa ruins, a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, via a design contest August 1 to October 10. The event, organized by the UNESCO Office in Hanoi and the Management Board of the My Son Relics Complex, is open to both local and foreign [...]
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July 16, 2011
Sacombank, Vietnam’s fifth largest partly private lender by assets, has rejected rampant rumors that the bank could be acquired by an investor. The rumors started circulating at the end of last month as more than 25 million STB shares changed hands on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange from June 29 to July 8. [...]
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June 19, 2011
Reckless driving and frequent tire blow outs have plagued Vietnam’s most advanced roadway The bus involved in the accident on June 13 that killed 8 people and injured 10 others on the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway Investigations into a recent highway accident, which killed eight and injured 10, has indicated that speeding [...]
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June 7, 2011
The lift system at the Ngu Hanh Son Tourism Area, where 19 passengers were left hanging for nearly 30 minutes on Sunday. The US$828,460 lift has repeated problems and this time panic ensued with two children passing out before their release. A lift system at a tourism area in the central city of Da Nang [...]
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June 1, 2011
The large poster that used to hang on the citadel’s perimeter wall, bearing the words Tu phuong vo su café-giai khat have since been removed following strong public criticism. The Lau tu phuong vo su (House of peace for all) was built nearly two hundred years ago as a place for members of the [...]
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March 17, 2011
Workers at a construction site of an apartment project in Ho Chi Minh City Twenty-four-year-old Nguyen Thi Hoa lives in the slums of Kim Chung Commune in Hanoi’s Dong Anh District along with many other low-income workers from nearby industrial parks. The Hai Duong native moved to this place two years ago after getting a [...]
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February 25, 2011
Vietnamese labor firms struggle to bring home thousands of laborers stranded in Libya Egyptians carry their belongings as they cross the border into Tunisia at a border crossing after fleeing unrest in Libya on February 23 Officials from the Vietnamese Labor Management Board in Libya say they’re preparing to evacuate 10,000 Vietnamese workers as [...]
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January 14, 2011
A farmer stands in front of his rice field along the Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway in the southern province of Long An. Authorities in the southern province of Long An have officially proposed that a highway management board supports local farmers with VND1.8 billion (US$92,331) in compensation for their crop failure. Â Lieu [...]
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January 2, 2011
Japanese experts help residents understand each house in their village is part of a precious heritage Yamaguchi Yoriko (L) and Inoue Aiko in the garden of an ancient house in Duong Lam Ancient Village. They know the village like the back of their hand. But the two young women leading a tour group in [...]
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