City leader visits revered People’s Teacher

November 20, 2009 in Vietnam Education
Tags: City, leader, people’s, revered, teacher, visits

Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Le Thanh Hai on November 19 visited Professor and People’s Teacher Nguyen Van Giau who is recognized for his many contributions to the field of education. The meeting took place in recognition of Vietnam Teacher’s Day (November 20).
Phan Xuan Bien, member of the Standing Board and [...]

HCM City begins planning for Tet festivities

November 19, 2009 in Vietnam Culture
Tags: HCM, City, Planning, begins, Tet, for, festivities

Ho Chi Minh City is planning six major events to celebrate Tet in February 2010, its People’s Committee said.

                Nguyen Hue flower street in Tet holidays of 2009 ( photo K K )
The Nguyen Hue Flower Street, an annual event that is highly popular with the public, themed Xuan binh minh (The dawn of Spring) [...]

Pasteur Institute HCM City makes A/H1N1 vaccine

November 17, 2009 in Vietnam Health
Tags: HCM, City, makes, vaccine, A/H1N1, Pasteur, Institute

Making vaccines at the Biological Vaccine Company No.1 (Filed photo: SGGP)
The Ho Chi Minh City-based Pasteur Institute announced it has successfully produced a vaccine against A/H1N1 flu based on Vero cell-based technology instead of the conventional fertilized hen-egg vaccine technology.Following the fact, the Ministry of Health will soon set up a scientific council [...]

Study in Australia exhibition returning to Hanoi, HCM City

November 16, 2009 in Vietnam Education
Tags: Australia, City, exhibition, hanoi, HCM, in, returning, study, to

The Australian Vocational and Higher Education 2009 will be held in Hanoi on Nov. 21 and Ho Chi Minh City the next day, the Australian Consulate General in the city has announced.

RMIT Universty’s Saigon South campus in Ho Chi Minh City. RMIT is among the exhibitors in the Australian Vocational and Higher Education 2009. [...]

Jubilant atmosphere covers highland city

November 13, 2009 in Vietnam Culture
Tags: City, Highland, atmosphere, Jubilant, covers

Pleiku City was brightened with a colorful firework in a bustling opening ceremony titled “Resounding gong and Central Highlands’ vitality” of the 2009 International Gong Festival on November 12.

Ethnic dancers in Central Highlands perform in the opening ceremony of the 2009 International Gong Festival.
On stage were images described the highlands cultural character such as gong [...]

International Gong Festival opens in upland city

November 12, 2009 in Uncategorized
Tags: City, international, opens, festival, in, gong, upland

The 2009 International Gong Festival will open at the March 17 Square in the city of Pleiku, the central highland province of Gia Lai, in the evening of November 12 and runs until November 15.

The Buon Trap gong troupe of Dak Lak Province rehearse for the Nov. 12 opening ceremony of the 2009 International Gong [...]

City to implement family doctor, nutrition projects

November 5, 2009 in Uncategorized
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Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health (DoH) will conduct two projects on family doctors and nutrition for children.

The DoH and Belgium’s Liège University November 4 held a meeting to discuss a family doctor cooperation project to provide better care and ease the current overload at the city’s major hospitals.
Under the project, three family [...]

SGGP’s stories on overcrowded city school spur official action

November 5, 2009 in Uncategorized
Tags: action, City, official, on, overcrowded, school, SGGP’s, spur, stories

Following Sai Gon Giai Phong’s stories about a ridiculously overcrowded school in Ho Chi Minh City, local authorities promised to resolve the problem immediately by transferring children to another school and opening a temporary one.

An Hoi learners study at a makeshift classroom in Pham Van Chieu Junior School (Photo: SGGP)
At a meeting held by [...]

Car fees curb traffic in HCM City center

October 26, 2009 in policies
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Car fees curb traffic in HCM City center

QĐND – Monday, October 26, 2009, 20:44 (GMT+7)

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 cars daily, HCM [...]

Capital city to get four waste-treatment centres

October 26, 2009 in Politics-Society
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Capital city to get four waste-treatment centres

QĐND – Monday, October 26, 2009, 20:44 (GMT+7)

The capital’s 19 suburban districts will all have access to rubbish dumps by 2015.
Hanoi’s Rural Environment Hygiene and Safe Water Centre on October 24 announced a plan to build four new waste treatment centres in the districts of Soc Son, [...]