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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 [...]
The Ho Chi Minh City-Trung Luong Highway, which links the city and the neighboring provinces of Tien Giang and Long An, is constantly showing many visible pot-holes, large cracks and sunk-in trenches in some sections of the road surface. Depressions and cracks occur at several spots on the HCMC-Trung Luong Highway which opened for traffic last year [...]
The western side of the Saigon River would give more land to public constructions and less to individual houses, according to a plan proposed to the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee Friday last week. Ho Chi Minh City plans to give more green and public space to the western side of the Saigon River [...]
The An Khanh estate in Ho Chi Minh City’s district 2 which is being cleared up to construct the Thu Thiem New Urban Area is now donning a new garb sewed by a strange foreigner. According to local residents, a foreigner came here to draw graffitis and abstract water-color paintings on the estate’s wall in [...]
SJC gold in Ho Chi Minh City was listed at VND37.94-38 million per tael on the morning of June 6. In Hanoi, the prices of SJC gold went up to VND37.94-38.02 million per tael, while Bao Tin Minh Chau gold was bought at VND37.89 million per tael and sold at VND37.99 million per tael. SBJ [...]