Saigon

Modern villages to be built near Saigon River

Modern agricultural villages along the Saigon River will be built under a plan by HCM City authorities to create new rural areas and more destinations for tourists.

Saigon Heat heats up Ho Chi Minh City basketball

The Saigon Heat -- Vietnam’s first professional basketball club -- has blown a wind of revitalization into the city’s basketball movement

City stylist launches ao dai photo exhibition

Ao Dai Huong Sac Viet (Vietnam’s spirited ao dai) photo exhibition, initiated by fashion stylist Vo Thuong, is on display at the five-star Rex Hotel Saigon in District 1.

Snails and seafood on streets of Saigon are heaven

When I head back to the old country and people ask me what I miss the most about Vietnam, within a heartbeat my mind wanders back to the dark, barely-lit streets of Saigon, small plastic tables and small school seats, snails, clams and beer.

Saigon FC fans decry new honorary chairman decision

HCMC-based football club Saigon FC has a new honorary chairman for their fan club, who turns out to be a scandalous singer

Sparrows For Peace, Peace For Sparrows

Saigonese should bear in mind that a living environment which is bad for wild birds is also worse for humans

Where to celebrate Women’s Day in town

Just two days left to the special day for women of March 8, have you had any plan for your women? Hereunder are some well-known hotels in town where you can give your women a special feast.

The new “flea market” in town

For over half a year now, Saigon Flea Market has become a familiar event among the expat community and the trendy and art-loving young crowd of Ho Chi Minh City

Saigon Flea Market returns on Sunday

A fun day of shopping and entertainment at the Saigon Flea Market (SFM) awaits fashionistas and families at the Boomarang Bistro Saigon, 107 Ton Dat Tien Street in HCMC’s District 7 at 2 p.m. on Sunday.

Sport news in brief – Feb 27

Saigon Heat’s first victory at Asian Basketball League, Chinese Jiangsu’s winning trophy at the VTV international volleyball cup, and Vietnamese national futsal kicked out of the Asian champs are among today top local sports news

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From Environment

Nutrious milk smugglers confiscated

THUA THIEN – HUE – Hue City's police turned away a smuggling ring and confiscated 10,000 US's Abbott milk-cans with labels transformed, the town investigative police confirmed with Viet Nam News today.Ton Nu Cam Dung was altering labels of Abbot's Ensure milk at her house with an Cuu Ward's Phan Chu Trinh Street. A lot more than 5,000 cans with yellow labels, 1,600 with blue labels and 500 without label were grabbed.Law enforcement also discovered 50 boxes of milk-cans that contains cans with changed

No funds to evacuate landslide areas

HCM CITY — The dearth of enormous sums of cash to maneuver citizens from landslide – and natural disaster-prone areas causes it to be hard for local government bodies to satisfy the Government's target.Families residing in 100s of landslide-prone areas and 60 river valleys threatened by surges were set to become gone to live in safe areas and assisted with moving, based on the Secretary of state for Agriculture and Rural Development.Pham Khanh Ly, deputy director from the ministry's Department of