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On Monday the Vietnam National University – Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM) launched a center for molecular and nano architecture (MANAR), which was established with assistance from the U.S.-based University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The MANAR center is targeted at world-class inventions and innovations, and is intended to be a center of excellence within [...]
After a 20% price hike announcement for domestic airfares, prices for local tours have accordingly been considerably increased, leading to a ridiculous state where domestic tours are more expensive than foreign ones. The hike which takes effect this week will negatively hurt the domestic tourism industry that is already suffering from bad reputation with poor [...]
Mixing A92 gasoline with methanol for retail sales is a new method of creating substandard gasoline that is becoming more popular among cheats on the outskirts of Ho Chi Minh City, Tuoi Tre discovered. The dishonest trick is said to have negative effects on both human health and the durability of motorbike engines. The scandal involving 11 [...]
Over one million teachers should have received a so-called ‘senior allowance’ in September, but red tape has prevented the distribution of these funds. A government decree issued in early July stipulates that those teachers who have been teaching for five years or more are entitled to the allowance. But Dao Hong Khoi, a teacher in [...]
Two delegations from Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee and HCMC Fatherland Front Committee visited the flood hit central provinces to hand relief aid to victims during their two day fieldtrip from November 15 to 16. A truck traversing a muddy landslip section of Ho Chi Minh Highway in Quang Nam Province on November 11 [...]
Workers in Ho Chi Minh City struggle with unstable jobs, abuse at work, and bosses who flee to avoid paying employees Workers from Miso Vina Company stay at the company yard around the clock awaiting payment after the South Korean director fled to avoid paying their salaries Binh burns leaves and sticks at night to [...]
Ho Chi Minh City’s Suoi Tien Theme Park has been listed among the 12 most popular parks in the world by The Traveler Zone, an online website about traveling. Suoi Tien has all the fun of traditional amusement parks, the site said. The list includes the Magic Kingdom Park at Walt Disney World in the [...]
With a view to restricting the use of personal vehicles, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Planning and Architecture and a Spanish company have completed their feasibility study on the creation of pedestrian streets in the downtown section of the city. If the idea is approved by the city People’s Committee, it will be [...]
The Vietnam Motor Show 2011 opened at Saigon Exhibition and Convention Centre in Ho Chi Minh City on November 16. At the opening ceremony, Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Le Duong Quang acknowledged Vietnamese automobile businesses’ contributions to national economic development. He expressed the belief that the businesses will adopt more positive measures to [...]
Eight artists of Hanoi have brought the northern region’s autumn to HCM City through their diverse-styled artworks. A painting by Nguyen Thanh Cong. The “Hanoi autumn” exhibition has opened at HCM City Fine Art Museum, with 150 oil and lacquer paintings and statues by Nguyen Xuan Lan, Nguyen Van Ha, Nguyen Thi Lan Huong, Nguyen [...]