• Car fees curb traffic in HCM City center

    25/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – City authorities have allowed the Tien Phong Technology JS company to research and install an automatic car fee collection system in the city center to curb traffic jams. With over 400,000 cars at present and around 100 new...

  • HCMC seeks stricter measures against illegal foreign workers

    25/10/2009 05:00

    A foreigner works for a restaurant in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Phu District The Ho Chi Minh City administration will ask the government to increase fines imposed on firms that employ illegal workers by ten times....

  • Teenage gangs plunder with impunity in Phu Yen

    25/10/2009 05:00

    Dang Van Binh of Phu Yen Province shows his net fence that was cut through by a gang of teenaged robbers. Residents of the sandy Hoa Hiep Trung Commune were used to leaving their vehicle outdoors, but now they chain even...

  • Heavy rains bring floods, landslides to central Vietnam

    25/10/2009 05:00

    Torrential rains brought by a tropical low forming in the East Sea last Friday have caused floods and landslides, leaving one missing in the central provinces over the past two days. Thousands of cubic meters of soil and rocks have collapsed from part of...

  • Population in Vietnam’s largest city goes past 7 million

    25/10/2009 05:00

    A crowded street of Ho Chi Minh City Ho Chi Minh City’s population experienced an increase of more than two million people in the last decade to reach 7.123 million, according to a census statistics released Friday....

  • Avowals of love criss-cross historic sites

    25/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Historic monuments like the Hoa Phong and But towers are covered by declarations of undying love by young people. Located on the bank of the Hoan Kiem Lake , the 3-story Hoa Phong tower from 1842 is the only relic of the Bao An pagoda....

  • British advocate for AO victims meets with students

    25/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Len Aldis, secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society (BVFS), met with more than 200 students at the Ho Chi Minh Student Cultural House on October 25. Len Aldis, secretary of the Britain-Vietnam Friendship Society (BVFS), met...

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