• HCM City to upgrade vocational centres for recovered addicts

    12/11/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – New equipment will be bought for three vocational training centres for former drug addicts in HCM City. Former drug addicts work at the Phu Van Embroidery Centre in HCM City. The city will invest around US$500,000 to upgrade equipment for job...

  • Hanoi has nearly 6.5 million people

    12/11/2009 05:00

    With a population of 6.5 million people, Hanoi accounts for 7.51 percent of the country’s population, according to initial results in the recent census in Hanoi. Ta Quang Huy, vice chief of the Hanoi Population and Family Planning Bureau, said on...

  • Water price should go up in small increments: officials

    12/11/2009 05:00

    A resident in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 7 buys clean water to carry home on a tricycle. Ho Chi Minh City’s major water supplier should increase its retail price by 10 percent each year till 2013 instead of by 35-89...

  • HCM City to refund road toll

    HCM City to refund road toll

    12/11/2009 05:00

    HCM City has ordered the Infrastructure Investment Joint Stock Company to set up a booth to refund toll collected on Ha Noi Highway from vehicles. A toll station on the Ha Noi Highway in HCM City. (Photo: VNN) The company said it would set up the booth on...

  • Dams, pollution killing nation’s rivers

    12/11/2009 05:00

    A section of the Tham Luong Canal in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Tan District is polluted by untreated wastewater The oceans of waste being dumped into Vietnamese rivers are contaminating waterways across the country while...

  • Five Vietnamese to join Antarctic expedition

    12/11/2009 05:00

    Hoang Thi Minh Hong stands at the South Pole in 1997 Hoang Thi Minh Hong, the first Vietnamese person to ever stand at the South Pole, will return to Antarctica as a member of the International Antarctic Treaty Expedition...

  • HCMC toll plan disparaged by experts

    12/11/2009 05:00

    Experts at a conference Thursday continued criticizing a controversial plan to toll cars in order to curb traffic problems in Ho Chi Minh City, asking the city government to take blame if the new system fails....

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