December 19, 2011
A woman looks up at the 33-floor building where her colleagues were trapped by a fire in Hanoi Thursday. She was among 40 workers rescued by the local fire deparment. The 33-floor Hanoi building that caught fire Thursday, injuring 11, failed to meet fire and safety regulations, an official told Thanh Nien Friday. To Xuan [...]
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May 2, 2011
Saigon Café at Sheraton Saigon Hotels and Towers offers a Mexican Fiesta every Thursday. This May, the Sheraton Saigon Hotels and Towers in Ho Chi Minh City will offer a Labor Day brunch and dinner, a special Mother’s Day feast and a weekly Mexican Fiesta. Every Thursday night, the hotel’s Saigon Café will host a [...]
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October 4, 2009
Tran Van Liem and his wife overcame numerous hurdles in designing their dreamwork: Van Lang City.LookAtVietnam – A vision of a future cultural city by an Vietnamese expat may be one step closer to development, as many local architects praised it as a bold and creative image that reflects his whole-hearted love for his home [...]
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July 29, 2009
While existing apartments priced at over $1,000 per square metre are selling very slowly due to low demand, a lot of new projects are still being marketed. Experts have warned that the massive investment in the market segment will lead to oversupply. A series of high-grade real estate projects in Hanoi and Da Nang have [...]
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July 15, 2009
LookAtVietnam – Ninh Thuan is home to a rich Cham culture and spectacular beaches. As the driest province in the country, the weather is bound to be perfect for sun-lovers. The sun and sand of Ninh Thuan Province is only 350 km northeast of HCMC, but it doesn’t get any where near the number of [...]
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July 5, 2009
Ninh Thuan is home to a rich Cham culture and spectacular beaches. As the driest province in the country, the weather is bound to be perfect for sun-lovers. The sun and sand of Ninh Thuan Province is only 350 km northeast of HCMC, but it doesnât get any where near the number of beach-goers that [...]
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June 30, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The central province of Binh Dinh entices nature lovers with its diversity of coastline, mountains, rivers, swamps, lakes, islands, fields, countryside villages and traditional festivals. A view of Banh It Towers.Thi Nai Lagoon is the largest lagoon in Binh Dinh at more than10 kilometers long and 4 kilometers wide and is a source [...]
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June 22, 2009
VietNamNet Bridge – Telecommunications facilities have developed massively in recent years in an uncoordinated way. Particularly in the cities, a snarl of cables chops up neighborhoods and disfigures streets. However, re-organising the wired and wireless telecom infrastructure is difficult because it “touches” economic interests. This scene can be seen everywhere in Hanoi.VietNamNet Bridge – Telecommunications facilities [...]
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May 19, 2009
LookAtVietnam – “Building a statue to show our gratitude to Kazik is what we are doing,” said an official of Quang Nam province about the construction of Polish architect Kazimierz Kwiatkowsky statue in the My Son Sanctuary. Kazik and a local priest in the 1980s.LookAtVietnam – “Building a statue to show our gratitude to Kazik [...]
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April 28, 2009
Though the minimum safe distance from a power pylon is half a meter, many houses along Tam Dao Street in Ward 15 in District 10 are wrapped around one or more tower legs. Many families in Ho Chi Minh City are putting themselves in danger by building their homes close to high-voltage power lines and [...]
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