• City dog owners ordered to register pets

    11/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Dog owners will have to register their pets with authorities from November 1, the HCM City Animal Health Department said over last weekend. Staff of HCM City Animal Health Department vaccinate a dog. Starting November 1, dog owners will have to...

  • Requiem for the unborn

    10/10/2009 05:00

    Thousands of couples pray for the souls of their aborted fetuses. A young woman at Tu Du maternity hospital’s family planning department in Ho Chi Minh City Heads bowed, the young couple intoned their prayers at a pagoda in Ho Chi Minh City. She burst...

  • HCM City mulls licences, fees for street vendors

    10/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – The city should issue licences to and collect fees from organisations and individuals for using parts of footpaths or streets for trading in goods and services, Poor people who used part of sidewalks for vending should have to pay lower fees....

  • A much diminished ‘Parma’ heads for Vietnam

    10/10/2009 05:00

    Considerably weakened after torturing the northern Philippines for a week, “Storm No 10” was over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Archipelago and heading directly for the north central Vietnam The National Meterology Center forecasts that the center of the storm will...

  • Taiwan firm’s boss disappears without paying workers salary

    10/10/2009 05:00

    LookAtVietnam – Around 500 workers from Taiwanese garment company Yu Jun in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 8 asked authorities for help October 10 Workers submit a letter conferring power of attorney on the District 8 Labor Union to sue the Taiwanese company on...

  • Mekong Delta at serious risk of rising sea levels, say experts

    09/10/2009 05:00

    The Mekong is one of the three deltas on Earth that will suffer most from climate change. More than eight million people may lose their homes if sea levels rise by one meter. The unavoidable effects of climate change will create worse flooding and acute...

  • From poverty to billionaire: apricot farmer

    09/10/2009 05:00

    Not many people know that Nguyen Thanh Son is a billionaire and became one from planting apricot blossom in HCM City. Nguyen Thanh Son, or Ba Son in his garden with apricot trees. He became a billionaire after successfully planting and selling apricot trees....

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