November 22, 2011
Japanese experts check Thu Thiem Tunnel before it was officially open to traffic under the Saigon River on Sunday  The longest cross-river tunnel in southeast Asia, Thu Thiem, was opened to traffic across the Saigon River in southern Vietnam on Sunday. A big ceremony with the Japanese International Cooperation Agency (JICA), which has invested in the project [...]
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November 19, 2011
The fact that Bangkok is struggling with the worst flooding in at least half a century should be a major wake up call for Vietnamese authorities. Ho Chi Minh City is almost in the same position as the Thai capital. Just like Bangkok, the southern metro is located downstream of a big river, the [...]
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October 14, 2011
But city folk call for it to be maintained as tourist attraction Passengers on a Thu Thiem Ferry that connects Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 and District 2. Municipal authorities will close the ferry later this year after an under-river tunnel opens to traffic in November. Whenever Dang Dinh Dat remembers his grandfather, [...]
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July 21, 2011
Duong Dong Express back at Ho Chi Minh City after the first tour to Vung Tau on Saturday. A one-day boat tour between Ho Chi Minh City and the southern beach town of Vung Tau was launched Saturday from the passenger wharf in District 4. Â The service was inaugurated with a four-hour trip on [...]
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July 9, 2011
Two officers of HCMC Preventive Health Center take water samples from the Saigon River for testing. (Photo: Tuoi Tre) Local scientists raised concern yet again over alarming levels of pollution in the Sai Gon River at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City Wednesday, Tuoi Tre newspaper reported. The conference, held by HCMC Department of Science and [...]
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June 1, 2011
Forty-year-old Chinese Guo Liangcai lost his wife, children, two siblings and friends in a boat accident last Friday in the southern province of Binh Duong. Guo Liangcai’s voice never stopped quavering. “I don’t know how I will handle the truth,” he told Thanh Nien Weekly over the phone last Tuesday. The 40-year-old Chinese businessman spoke [...]
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May 27, 2011
The boat, which sank in the southern province of Binh Duong last Friday, killing 16, floats on the Saigon River after being recovered Saturday. A meeting was held in the southern province of Binh Duong Wednesday to review a tourist boat accident that killed 16 people last week, but no agency has accepted responsibility. Â [...]
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May 26, 2011
Tran Dinh Quang, 13, at his family's funeral Sunday in the central province of Ha Tinh. Nine of his loved ones died in a boat accident in the southern province of Binh Duong last Friday. Tears seem to be not enough to express the pain of a 70-year-old man and his family, as nine of [...]
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February 14, 2011
The Him Lam Club alongside the Saigon River A golf club which was illegally constructed along the Saigon River in Ho Chi Minh City has been allowed to operate since 2005 despite official knowledge of its violations, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reported Friday. The Him Lam Club was built upon a 31,300-square meter “golden land lot” that [...]
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January 15, 2011
 Floating garden linking Saigon River and Thu Thiem project by French architect Olivier Souquet Oliver Souquet has had the rare pleasure of bringing gardens to Vietnam. The Frenchman won his government’s inaugural Young Architect Portrait in 2002 and has been helping several Vietnamese organizations with architectural design and landscaping. Olivier is a co-director of [...]
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