January 20, 2012
The Tet flower road will return to Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City this Friday, highlighted by a giant dragon blowing blooms, as the city starts celebrating the Year of Dragon. With the Lunar New Year starting Monday next week, work to transform Nguyen Hue Street into a street of flowers began on January 10. The 12 meter long, [...]
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January 14, 2012
There has been a fair amount written recently about various institutional cartels that are thriving in the US despite antitrust laws designed to prevent their existence. My previous column compared Wall Street’s few remaining investment banks to a cartel, with explicit pricing power over its hundreds of thousands of customers, an advantage that will [...]
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January 14, 2012
 Director Le Hoang (L). His latest sleazy movie, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), revolves around a straightforward question that satirizes materialistic relationships: how much does it cost to sleep with you? Le Hoang’s latest soft-porn flick, Toi nay 8h! (At 8 Tonight), just like his earlier ones, are less “cheap” than many people [...]
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January 11, 2012
Pham Thi My Linh, 19, had her jail term cut to six months at a trial in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday. The girl pleaded guilty to charges of "acting against people on public mission." An appeal court in Ho Chi Minh City Monday reduced the jail term for a 19-year-old girl who caused a stir [...]
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January 8, 2012
Aiko, a Japanese customer, enjoys her favorite Japanese authentic breakfast at Azumaya Restaurant. Photo: Tina Pham To try something new for breakfast last week, I took my friend Aiko’s suggestion to experience the authentic Japanese breakfast offered by Azumaya Restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City. At the early hour of 6 a.m., we saw [...]
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January 7, 2012
Visitors read special editions of local magazines and newspaper at last year’s book street in Ho Chi Minh City. The annual Nguyen Hue Flower Street display during this year’s Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday will be once again accompanied by three book streets in Ho Chi Minh City from January 20-26. The event, which aims [...]
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December 31, 2011
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Transport has announced it will ban vehicles from traveling on some certain streets to pave the way for New Year celebrations. Vehicles will be banned from entering Nguyen Hue Street in District 1 from 6 p.m. on Dec. 31, 2011 until 1 a.m. on Jan. 1, 2012. There will [...]
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December 20, 2011
Outdoor classical music concerts reach out to the man on the street A Luala outdoor Concert on 61 Ly Thai To Street, Hanoi on a Saturday morning is a rare sight in the city, and the artists have gathered a curious crowd that soon swells into more than a hundred people Week 1: 3 [...]
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December 19, 2011
Cheong Yen Kit (L) and Leung Ka Kei (2nd, L) talk with Thanh Nien about their experience being robbed and selling their own photos for daily meals. Ho Chi Minh City police are investigating if two Hong Kong tourists were actually robbed as they claim, after the couple was sighted selling their photography on the street [...]
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December 19, 2011
Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group. The drama over the meltdown of the brokerage firm MF Global pivots around a clash between two veteran traders who rose from relatively humble roots to the very top of the futures-trading business. One is Jon Corzine, the firm’s former CEO who just testified [...]
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CME’s Duffy vs MF Global’s Corzine: A question of trust
Terrence Duffy, executive chairman of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group. The drama over the meltdown of the brokerage firm MF Global pivots around a clash between two veteran traders who rose from relatively humble roots to the very top of the futures-trading business. One is Jon Corzine, the firm’s former CEO who just testified [...]
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