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As Valentine’s Day approaches nearer, markets in Ho Chi Minh City begin to bustle with excited activity, displaying various kinds of gift items to gear up for one of the biggest sales of the year. Department stores such as Zen Plaza are offering several promotional sales from 20-50 per cent on an assortment of gift [...]
Ho Chi Minh City’s annual Saigon Cyclo Challenge will be held in District 7 on March 10, offering a day of fun and challenge for both locals and expats. It is organised by Saigon Children’s Charity, an NGO established in 1992 to bring education to disadvantaged children in HCMC and the rest of the southern [...]
New World Saigon Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City is offering beauty treatments and sumptuous dinners on Valentine’s Day, February 14. During the week leading up to the day, the hotel will offer romantic evenings with special menus and buffets, candlelit dinners, live music and roses. On February 14 diners at Parkview Restaurant will be [...]
South Korean boy band Big Bang will make its debut in Vietnam at the Coca-Cola SoundFest after drug and car accident scandals rocked the mucians careers last year, the news web site Vnexpress reported Tuesday. The hip-hop-electronic-style band was formed by YG Entertainment in 2006 and consists of five members, including G-Dragon, Taeyang, Daesung, TOP [...]
In its central location just behind the Bitexco Tower, Ham Nghi serves as a pertinent place to host the plethora of food outlets that line the street. From the all day market that has bubbling tubs of fresh fish to the mini-marts specialising in western brands, it’s a street with something for everyone. But it [...]
Nearly 600 Overseas Vietnamese (OVs) from different countries who have returned home to celebrate Tet attended a spring gathering in Ho Chi Minh City on January 7. The event was a place for OVs to meet each other and welcome the traditional Lunar New year (Tet) festival in their homeland with a wide range of [...]
More than 13,500 people, both Vietnamese and foreigners, took part in the 7th Lawrence S.Ting Charity Walk at Phu My Hung residential area in Ho Chi Minh City on January 7. The 2km walk raised more than VND2.4 billion for poor people in Ho Chi Minh City suburbs to welcome the upcoming traditional Lunar New Year [...]
The Ho Chi Minh City Red Cross and national television VTV has begun raising donations for the “Tet holiday for the poor and Agent Orange victims 2012” charity program, aimed at granting 25,000 presents to needy people. The program organizers have run many activities, including the “Texting to bring Tet holiday to the poor” program running [...]
An exhibition featuring photos of children around the world taken by French photographer Yan Lerval has just been opened in Ho Chi Minh City. Titled “Terre de Regards” (Views of Earth), the exhibition showcases the 42-year-old artist’s works taken on his trips to Vietnam, Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, India, the Himalayan region, Europe and Africa last [...]
The Department of Transport in Ho Chi Minh City said on Thursday that the city will maintain a sufficient number of buses to meet the travel rush during the coming Tet holiday season. Department authorities met with bus station managers and transport companies to implement a plan to serve passengers returning to their hometowns to [...]