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One of the world’s most delectable delicacies, caviar, is being served this week at the Hotel Sofitel Saigon Plaza. The hotel restaurant offers a five-course menu with a high-quality selection of caviar and fish roe, including Mediterranean Arenkha caviar, trout roe and French Baeri caviar. It also serves caviar’s perfect match, premium champagne, such as [...]
More teachers have been taking on multiple jobs, leaving them with tight schedules and affecting academic quality of study for students. Hong Bang International University in HCMC have to hire more than 60% of their teaching staff from other universities. Photo by Nguoi Lao Dong Newspaper. Universities teachers have recently seen running about too much [...]
The new American Center of the U.S. Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City held a grand opening ceremony Wednesday. The new office is located on the 8th floor of Diamond Plaza in District 1. It is open to the general public free of charge, providing information about the U.S. (L-R) American Consul General in Ho [...]
People’s Artist Luong Dong, one of the leading masters of stage and theater design in the country, passed away at the age of 87 in Ho Chi Minh City on September 28 after a long illness. People’s Artist Luong Dong The People’s Artist, Quach Luong Dong, was born in 1924 in the Mekong Delta province [...]
The sixth International Food and Hospitality Trade Event which promotes trade links in the food, restaurant and hotel industry opened today in Ho Chi Minh City at District 7’s Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center. US Ambassador to Vietnam David Shear and U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Acting Under Secretary Michael Scuse were present to cut the [...]
Doctors at many Chinese-owned clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have given deceitful prescriptions to patients, sold medicines at exorbitant prices, and in some cases, caused complications, many readers told Tuoi Tre. Despite hyperbolic claims in their advertisements about their capabilities, Chinese-owned clinics failed to deliver their promise to patients and yet proved to be [...]
A seven-seat car branded Mitsubishi unexpectedly caught fire while on the National Highway 1A in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh District this afternoon. However, the driver indentified as Tran Minh Hai hailing from District 12’s Dong Hung Thuan Ward luckily escaped death after timely jumping out of the car. At the time of the [...]
Vietnam’s low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific has begun to accept bookings for flights during the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday, or Tet. The nation’s second biggest airline said passengers could now purchase tickets for their Tet travel from HCMC to Hanoi, Danang, Vinh, Hai Phong and from Hanoi to Danang and vice versa on www.jetstar.com, or [...]
From now until 2015, Ho Chi Minh City plans to deploy seven projects worth a total US$240 million to upgrade and expand its water supply network, cut water loss, and treat sludge at water factories. Saigon Water Supply Corporation, or Sawaco, is currently providing approximately 1.6 million cubic meters of water for 85 percent of [...]
Total Vietnam dong loans at Ho Chi Minh City-based banks as of the end of August reached VND522.2 trillion, or a mere 1.24 percent increase compared to late 2010, the HCMC branch of the central bank reported. This figure confirmed many banks’ opinion that dong credit can’t grow because of the impact of the high [...]