Posts Tagged ‘ Thi Minh Khai ’

The blue plate specials 

December 20, 2010
The blue plate specials 

  A Thanh Nien investigation finds that official vehicles are above the law An official vehicle known, as a “blue-plate”, dips into the motorbike lane on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Ho Chi Minh City. It’s Monday afternoon and a line of cars is inching forward slowly on Dong Khoi Street in downtown Ho Chi [...]

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Countdown for New Year begins

February 6, 2010
Countdown for New Year begins

Artisans work at the calligraphy market on Pham Ngoc Thach Street in HCM City’s District 1.LookAtVietnam – Traditional Tet favourites like calligraphy markets and flower fairs have begun in HCM City in the week before the lunar New Year.On Pham Ngoc Thach and Nguyen Thi Minh Khai streets in front of the Labour Cultural House, [...]

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Da Lat flower festival to celebrate Hanoi 1,000th birthday

January 2, 2010
Da Lat flower festival to celebrate Hanoi 1,000th birthday

Scenic Da Lat Town in the Central Highlands will host a flower festival from January 1 to 4 to celebrate the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi that will also feature a clutch of other horticultural activities. Here are some of the programs: Statue of Bodhisattva Kwan Yin made from more than 600,000 bat tu (helichrysum [...]

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City taps vegetarians’ need for variety

September 7, 2009
City taps vegetarians’ need for variety

LookAtVietnam – It is easy to find vegetarian food shops or restaurants in HCM City since they boomed in the area over recent years. Herbivore’s hangout: Van Canh Restaurant in District 1 serves a wide selection of different vegetarian dishes.Previously, vegetarian food shops only were opened near pagodas and most of the main cooks were [...]

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State firms accused of egregious land mismanagement

July 13, 2009
State firms accused of egregious land mismanagement

A highly-valuable lot on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai Street, Ho Chi Minh City, has been left unused by the state-owned Gia Dinh Textile Company for five years. Land management is so bad that some state-run firms have let public land fall into private hands and many don’t even keep records of what land they own [...]

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SOCIAL IN BRIEF 15/3

March 15, 2009
SOCIAL IN BRIEF 15/3

Bell ringing to mark Son My massacre; Hanoi pumps huge capital into electricity grid improvement; France supports AO victims’ fight for justice; Lam Dong province hosts music gala for ethnic minorities; City regulations preserve integrity of historic district Foreign visitors at the Son My memorial house.Bell ringing to mark Son My massacreThe central province of [...]

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Hard times force kids to quit school

March 10, 2009
Hard times force kids to quit school

LookAtVietnam – Thousands of students in the Cuu Long (Mekong) Delta are quitting school because of poverty and bad transportation. Every school and commune had taken measures to curb drop-out rates, with encouragement funds, charity funds or negotiations with boat owners to reduce boat fees for students.According to statistics from the Department of Education and [...]

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Dropping out because of ferry-boat fee

February 24, 2009
Dropping out because of ferry-boat fee

The Ca Mau Education and Training Department has reported that 2,458 students have dropped out so far this year, including 392 students who dropped out because they don’t have money to take ferry boats to the schools. Students in U Minh district take ferry boat to schoolStudents in Dam Doi and U Minh districts in [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...