• Mono or double rail debate in Hanoi speeds up

    Mono or double rail debate in Hanoi speeds up

    28/06/2010 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Hanoi needs an overhead tramcar route to reduce gridlock, but transportation experts should weigh the benefits of a mono or double rail. Hanoi needs an overhead tramcar route to reduce gridlock, but transportation experts should weigh the benefits...

  • HCM City to collect time-based car parking fees

    HCM City to collect time-based car parking fees

    28/06/2010 05:00

    HCM City authorities have assigned relevant agencies to work out a time-based fee scheme for cars that park along roads and sidewalks. Is Electronic Road Pricing the solution for HCM City gridlock? Research of car fee collection in HCM City’s...

  • Drug Administration denies medicine prices are higher than world’s

    Drug Administration denies medicine prices are higher than world’s

    27/06/2010 05:00

    Vietnam’s medicine prices are not 5-40 times higher than the world’s average, but instead are lower than those of many countries, reported Vietnam Drug Administration Chief Truong Quoc Cuong. Vietnam’s medicine prices are not 5-40...

  • Vietnam in world’s most stunning presidential palaces

    Vietnam in world’s most stunning presidential palaces

    27/06/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – The US-based Huffington Post has selected the most stunning presidential palaces in the world, including Vietnam’s. Presidential palaces are usually one of a city’s most impressive aesthetic highlights, for both citizens and tourists...

  • Wildlife vendor arrested

    Wildlife vendor arrested

    27/06/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City police on June 25 caught a vendor in the act of offering 19 wild animals for sale. Foreign TV channel criticized for adverting wildlife cuisine in Vietnam Police introduce hotline against wildlife poachers...

  • WB approves $456.5 million for Vietnam

    27/06/2010 05:00

    The World Bank (WB) just approved four credits totaling $456.5 million to assist Vietnam’s development efforts. The World Bank (WB) just approved four credits totaling $456.5 million to assist Vietnam’s development efforts. The credits are provided by...

  • A typical pavement tea shop in Hanoi

    26/06/2010 05:00

    VietNamNet Bridge – This “tea shop” opens from 5am to 6.30am and customers sit on plastic chairs to see the Turtle Tower and the Hoan Kiem Lake. This “tea shop” has opened along the Dinh Tien Hoang street sidewalk for many years....

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