January 2, 2012
Alternative exhibition spaces are striving to develop in Vietnam 20 years after they first came on the scene An artist performing his work at the ‘Shaping a Line’ exhibition, opening from July 28 to September 8, at San Art in Ho Chi Minh City. Photo courtesy of SanArt. Artists are famous, if not notorious, [...]
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July 24, 2011
A man uses his mobile phone in Lenin Park, Hanoi. Many parks across Vietnam have been taken legally or illegally for projects to build hotels and trade centers. While many countries in the world are currently working to restore green spaces with more trees and parks in their metropolitan cities, Vietnam seems to be bucking [...]
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May 1, 2011
China launches a ban on smoking in indoor public spaces Sunday but the effort is widely viewed as vague and half-hearted and few expect it to have much of an impact in the tobacco-addicted country. China launches a ban on smoking in indoor public spaces Sunday but the effort is widely viewed as vague and [...]
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April 24, 2011
Prime office spaces struggle to attract tenants in HCMC Visitors look at models of residential and office towers at a real estate exhibition in Ho Chi Minh City. A surplus of office spaces has pushed down rental rates. As increasing supply applies downward pressure on rentals, the office space segment has become a buyer’s [...]
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January 12, 2010
LookAtVietnam – Kiosks, mini shops and stalls have been popping up along streets and on sidewalks. Any empty space can be used to sell goods. The Tet market is heating up. Obtaining a retail space is not easy, but it’s especially impossible now just one month before Tet. Small merchants complain that they cannot find [...]
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December 6, 2009
Rare green spaces in HCM City’s District 5. The city does not have yet regulations on the preservation of green spaces. LookAtVietnam – The preservation of trees and green spaces in the city should be an urgent and ongoing task, experts said at a seminar held on Wednesday in HCM City.Che Dinh Ly, deputy head [...]
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May 10, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The bursting of the real-estate bubble offers HCM City the chance to create a ‘Bilbao effect,’ argues master architect Ly The Dan. The Ho Chi Minh City skyline sees new towerblocks added every year. Originally planned for 500,000 inhabitants, the metropolis has swollen into an urban centre of more than 6 million.LookAtVietnam – [...]
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April 14, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung has approved a master plan for developing the country’s urban area system by 2025. The Dinh Cong new urban area has been recently built in Ha Noi. A master plan for developing the country’s urban areas by 2025 has just been rectified by Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. [...]
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March 30, 2009
A photo contest called “Awaken Spaces” held by the British Council and the Sports & Culture Newspaper closed with an awards ceremony in Hanoi on March 27 and in HCM City on March 29. Nguyen Quoc Bao, a student from the Saigon International College, received a certificate of merit for his idea called “Street Corner [...]
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January 19, 2009
Life in Sa Pa is on display on do (poonah) paper and oil paintings at veteran painter Dang Tin Tuong’s exhibition of new artworks at the Exhibtion House in Ha Noi. Mua Xuan Sa Pa (Sa Pa in Spring), one of dozens of paintings of the Sa Pa landscape by Dang Tin Tuong, is on [...]
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