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A 20-year-old girl fell off her motorbike and hit her head against the road after driving into a plastic ball that a group of amateur young footballers were playing with on Hung Vuong Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 5 on Friday evening. She dropped down unconscious while the youths ran away in panic. [...]
A clinic in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 11 has been found offering hymen surgery, a service the municipal health department said was beyond the clinic’s capacity. In a 30-page booklet titled “Huu Nghi Trung Nam” offered to its patients and passers-by, Trung Nam Clinic said there are three methods to restore a damaged hymen: [...]
Coach and train stations in Ho Chi Minh City are adding more services in expectation of soaring demands during the forthcoming Independence Day which will fall on the weekend. Thuong Thanh Hai, deputy director of Mien Dong Coach Station, said there would be a long Independence Day holiday this year, so the number of buses [...]
Ho Chi Minh City welcomed over 1.85 million foreign visitors in the first seven months of this year, representing a year-on-year rise of 10 percent despite impacts of the global economic downturn. This success was attributable to an action plan on waterway tourism development, the popularity of the second stage of “Ho Chi Minh City [...]
The Vietnam Waste Solution Company (VWS) is seeking approval from the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to import 10,000 tons of non-categorized wastes from the US to test its new waste separating and recycling plant, raising public concerns as there is a huge domestic waste supply. VWS is the investor of the Da Phuoc [...]
As part of the City’s program, “Pink summer holiday”, Ho Chi Minh City’s mission, led by Duong Quang Ha, President of the City Fatherland Front’s Central Committee, on July 24th, paid a visit to young Vietnamese volunteers in Laos’s Mayparkngum District, Vientiane. On behalf of the City authorities, President Ha gave compliments and offered VND [...]
Saigon Sky Deck, the city’s first observatory is now open on the 49th floor of Bitexco Financial Tower on Ho Tung Mau Street in District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City. Visitor enjoying the panoramic view from the observatory. Bitexco Financial Tower is the city’s tallest building, and the observatory now offers a spectacular panoramic [...]
The number of three- to five-star hotels in Ho Chi Minh City has nearly doubled in the last three years to 73 with a total of 9,700 rooms, the city Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism has said. The three-star category saw the strongest growth, increasing in the period to 47 hotel from 21, according [...]
One afternoon early last month a resident of Kien Thanh Apartments in Ho Chi Minh’s District 6 rushed back home after being informed about a break-in at her house. When she stepped into her apartment, she found things strewn all over and a laptop worth VND15 million (US$730) and some jewels and cosmetics gone. Nga, [...]
Ho Chi Minh City plans to develop 39 million square metres of housing and increase the average housing space per person to 17sqm during the 2011-15 period. Ho Chi Minh city illustration photo In addition, the city aims to eliminate temporary housing and increase the rate of concrete houses to more than 75 per cent [...]