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Authorities in HCM City plan to exploit the area’s river tourism potential with new programmes, including tours of Can Gio Mangrove Forest. By the end of this month, the city’s Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism will compile agency opinions and report to the People’s Committee on the kind of infrastructure that should be built [...]
No once could imagine that a reputable lawyer would become a babysitter one day, and a forwarder would become a taxi motorbike driver overnight. Ha and his 4-year-old son A lot of businesses have got bankrupted in the economic difficulties, turning their staffs unemployed. A lot of office workers have to take other temporary [...]
It’s the under table money which makes the highways in Vietnam the most expensive ways in the world. Reports show that the expenses on making highways in Vietnam are 1.5-2 times higher than that in neighboring countries such as China, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, and even higher than in the US. As a result, Vietnam [...]
World-famous Chinese American chef Martin Yan is set to launch a reality show on tourism and cuisine across Vietnam. The chef has just signed a contract with the Ho Chi Minh City- based Dien Quan Media company for the 26-episode show titled “Martin – Taste of Vietnam” after coming to the country to judge “Iron Chef [...]
More and more cruise travelers have arrived in Vietnam so far this year. Vietnam expects a bumper cruise tourism season in 2012 after a quiet year of 2011. More and more cruises heading for Vietnam The first months of 2012 were a busy time for travel firms which received a lot of international cruises to [...]
Vietnam’s real estate loans stand at a safe level and property developers are not on the verge of bankruptcy, despite an ongoing market slump, a government official has said. Real estate has not been the cause of the country’s credit problems, Deputy Construction Minister Nguyen Tran Nam was quoted as saying in an interview on [...]
Protected forests upstream in border area near Laos, in the central province of Ha Tinh, have been terribly gutted, forcing authorities to urgently intervene. Most recently, the border guard forces of Ha Tinh discovered and retrieved 333 cubic meters of contraband timber in the Son Hong forest in Huong Khe District thanks to the mobilization [...]
A 23-second clip on Youtube showing three bare-headed young men on a motorbike dumping water from a bucket on female bicyclists as they passed them has aroused intense fury in local online community. After committing the act that many commentators considered uneducated and uncivilized, the trio fled away, leaving their unsuspecting victims stunned and speechless. [...]
A former ob-gyn nurse was sentenced Wednesday to eight years in jail by the Hanoi People’s Court for trafficking babies. Nguyen Thi Kim Chi, 59, had brought babies from women with unexpected pregnancies to sterile couples looking for children, earning herself up to VND35 million (US$1,700) from each of the four transactions she brokered between [...]
While European law makers are trying to deal with the giants–Facebook and Google, by releasing a set of rules on personal information protection in the Internet environment, Vietnamese people keep spontaneously providing personal information when joining the networks. What has helped the giant social network Facebook, which has just been operational for eight years, collect [...]