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The traditional Bong Sen (Lotus) Song and Dance Theatre will celebrate its 50th founding anniversary with two special shows on September 17-18 at the Ho Chi Minh City Opera House. The famous dance couple Dang Hung and Vuong Linh and their talented daughter Linh Nga will make major contributions to the events. The shows will [...]
A former doctor from the prestigious Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has finally been sentenced to 16 years imprisonment for faking prescriptions and stealing over billions of dongs worth of prescribed drugs in 2009. The Appeal Court of the Supreme People’s Court in HCMC yesterday gave the sentence to Luu To Lan, [...]
HCM City plans to promote strongly the development of renewable energy over the next decade. The municipal Department of Industry and Trade has completed a power development plan up to 2015 with a vision to 2020, in which particular focus is given to the wind and solar power generation, as well as generating power from [...]
The Ho Chi Minh City Federation of Labor Unions and Sai Gon Giai Phong newspaper presented the 11th Ton Duc Thang Prize to outstanding entrepreneurs in a ceremony held in the HCMC Conference Hall on Friday, attended by municipal officials, organizations and businesses. Le Duc Duc, one of the winners, is a friendly, modest and [...]
Many streets in Ho Chi Minh City like Hai Thuong Lan Ong and Luong Nhu Hoc in District 5, Ngo Nhan Tinh in District 6 and Phu Binh parish in District 11 are festooned with multi-colored lanterns for the Full Moon Festival, which falls on September 12 (August 15 on the lunar calendar). Traditional Vietnamese [...]
Though claiming to help cut power consumption by up to 40 percent, many alleged power-saving devices sold throughout Ho Chi Minh City are found to have no effect at all. Thai, a resident in District 10, is seeking buyers for his 10 kits of Powerboss power-saving devices purportedly imported from Britain which he had spent [...]
Well-known Vietnamese pianist Nguyen Bich Tra, who is living and working in the UK, will return to Ho Chi Minh City for a concert next month. Titled “Piano and Voice”, the concert will feature works of world – renowned composers through performances of Tra and 24-year-old baritone Nguyen Hai Dang. The two artists will perform [...]
Since moving to Saigon last year, one of the most common questions I’ve gotten – whether from locals, other expats, or friends and family back home – has been: “Do you like Saigon?” The answer has always been quite easy. Yes, I do. In fact, I often say that I love it. Explaining that answer, [...]
Vocational schools in Ho Chi Minh City are not above employing gimmicks to attract enrolment for the upcoming academic year starting in September. Most of them target high-school graduates, hoping to entice candidates who fail to get through the recent national university entrance exams. Nguyen Van Thanh, a student from the central province of Quang [...]
After earlier donating VND1 billion (US$49,000) to the Let’s Build Truong Sa fund established by Tuoi Tre, employees of the Saigon Beverages Company contributed a further VND500 million yesterday. “It is a manifestation of our duty to contribute to the nation and show our gratitude to customers who have supported the Vietnamese Goods for Vietnamese People [...]