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“Taste of the World,” an annual food festival featuring delicacies from 18 nations and territories, is held until Jan. 1, 2012, at the September 23 Park in Ho Chi Minh City. In addition to showcasing Vietnam’s rich food culture with food and beverages, the festival will house 89 pavilions representing such countries and territories as [...]
A worker at a fashion shop in Ho Chi Minh City was killed and four others injured on Monday after a woman refused to leave her coat at the door and called her lover to intervene. Nguyen Van Tri, 36, was arrested an hour after arriving at Song Nhac, a big fashion shop in District [...]
A court in Ho Chi Minh City on Monday sentenced 14 members of a gang that traded fake medicine to between two and 10 years in jail, online newspaper Dan Tri reported. Gang leaders Huynh Ngoc Quang, 29, and Huynh Van Tien, his 33-year-old brother, received sentences of 10 years each, according to the verdict [...]
The Investigation Security Force celebrated the 60th anniversary of its Traditional Day (1951 – 2011) and received the Ho Chi Minh Order in Hanoi on December 28. Over the past 60 years, the Investigation Security Force has consistently been one of the core forces combating and controlling crimes against national security and always fulfilling all [...]
Having established itself as one of Hanoi’s most popular restaurants since the opening of its flagship eatery in 2003, Highway4 has expanded into a successful franchise with five outlets now scattered across the capital, one in Ho Chi Minh City, and another due to open soon in Hoi An. And though the Ho Chi Minh [...]
There are huge opportunities for Vietnam to export agricultural products to the US, said a representative of the USAID Star Plus (Support for Trade Acceleration) at a seminar for exporting agricultural products to the US in Ho Chi Minh City on November 29. Vietnam has huge oportunities to export agricultural products to the US. (Photo: KK) Vietnam [...]
Ho Chi Minh City will organize a camping festival at the Suoi Tien Tourist Area in District 9 for disabled and disadvantaged people on December 3, to mark ‘Disabled People’s Day’. Suoi Tien Tourist Area Around 5,500 representatives from nearly 70 units and organizations across the country have registered to take part in the event. [...]
The proposal to develop boat taxis in Ho Chi Minh City must be submitted to the city government by the end of this year for approval, as requested by the city People’s Committee. Under the project, two boat-taxi routes will be developed in the city by Thuong Nhat Co Ltd. The first route runs on [...]
Photography and history lovers should head to Cosmo Cafe at the back of HCMC Museum before the end of this month to witness the photo exhibition themed Sai Gon xua (Ancient Saigon). A corner of the exhibition Ancient Saigon – Photo: Huy Nguyen According to organizers, HCMC Museum of Fine Arts and HCMC Department of [...]
The Ho Chi Minh City Sponsoring Association for Poor Patients received 640 hearing aids to help poor hearing-impaired children at a charity programme on November 2. At the event, as many as 284 hearing-impaired children from 16 schools in Ho Chi Minh City and neighbouring provinces of Tay Ninh, Ben Tre, Dong Nai, Binh Duong [...]