December 28, 2011
The Ministry of Transport on Thursday suspended another taxi company from operating at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City for various violations, online newspaper VnExpress reported. Happy Taxi is the third company to be banned from the airport, after Petrolimex Taxi and Festival Taxi. The decisions were made following an [...]
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November 19, 2011
Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie (C) waves to the media as she stands with her adopted sons Pax Thien (R) from Vietnam and Maddox from Cambodia at a security check point before leaving Con Dao Island, off Vietnam’s southern coast on Wednesday (November 16) Hollywood star Angelina Jolie and her six children wrapped up their [...]
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November 6, 2011
A Hanoi traffic policeman tries to hang on to a taxi as the taxi driver, who was caught violating traffic regulations, attemps to flee. File photo taken in Hanoi in 2010. Police in Hanoi have arrested two people, including a taxi driver, for allegedly cheating two Japanese out of more than VND8 million (US$380), VnExpress [...]
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October 26, 2011
Bangkok’s second airport shut down Tuesday as floodwaters advanced into the Thai capital, forcing authorities in “crisis mode” to declare a five-day public holiday in preparation for the deluge. The cabinet ordered an October 27-31 holiday for Bangkok and 20 other provinces affected by the kingdom’s worst flooding in decades, amid warnings a high [...]
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August 15, 2011
A model of Long Thanh International Airport, to be built in the southern province of Dong Nai. The southern province of Dong Nai plans to open Southeast Asia’s new main transit airport in 2020, local authorities announced Friday. According to the plan, work on Long Thanh International Airport will start in 2015 with an initial [...]
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August 9, 2011
Professor Vo Quy Vietnam’s Agent Orange campaign has made the US government start to act, by educating them on the environmental and social impacts in Vietnam, a Vietnamese professor and activist has said.  Professor Vo Quy, lecturer at Vietnam National University-Hanoi and one of the first members of the Vietnam-US Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin, [...]
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July 4, 2011
Gia Lam Airport in Long Bien District, Hanoi, where a golf course will be built A 117-hectare golf complex is being built on the site of a Hanoi, Tuoi Tre reported Thursday.  The project covers 75 hectares of land within the Gia Lam Airport in the Long Bien District, some eight kilometers from the capital. It was funded by the Long Bien Investment [...]
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June 26, 2011
Work has begun on the construction a golf course complex in the Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City. Authorities in Ho Chi Minh City have approved a project to build a 111-hectare- golf course and an urban area on the premises of the Tan Son Nhat International Airport. Â The complex, [...]
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April 27, 2011
An artist's impression of Long Thanh International Airport. Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung last week approved a plan to construct a mega airport near Ho Chi Minh City. The first phase of construction at Long Thanh International Airport in southern Dong Nai Province, some 40 kilometers northeast of HCMC, will begin in 2015 and is [...]
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April 9, 2011
I returned to Vietnam yesterday (March 19) and utilized again the visa-on-arrival (V-O-A) service. The situation at the V-O-A counter at Tan Son Nhat International Airport was quite chaotic and disorganized, as it has been from the initiation of the program. This wasn’t too much of a concern a year ago as the service [...]
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