Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam News

A Greater Manchester man who tried to smuggle more than 700 rare and endangered corals and clams into the UK has been jailed for six months.

In June 1866, an adventurous French expedition consisting of two steam-driven gunboats, filled with liquor, flour, guns and other goods, left Saigon and headed up the Mekong River to find a new inland way to China.

In a statement Tuesday, said the package included return economy class air ticket, airport taxes, return airport transfer, accommodation at Equatorial Hotel and daily breakfast.

Despite the continued slowdown in the economy, Vietnam's nutrition industry saw robust growth in the last 12 months, with local consumers still rating health as a major concern behind the economy and job security, according to a recent report from market-research company Nielsen.

Louisiana officials on Monday tour the Can Gio Mangrove Forest southeast of Ho Chi Minh City.

A wholesale market in Ho Chi Minh City has banned traders from selling Chinese ginger after tests found a highly poisonous chemical in the products.

Limitless has signed a new joint venture agreement for the construction of Halong Star, its mixed-use residential and tourism project in Vietnam.

Intrepid My Adventure Store has an eight-day tour of Tuscany including five nights' hotel accommodation, two nights on a farm estate, seven breakfasts, three lunches, three dinners, transport and sightseeing on tour, and an expert English-speaking tour leader from $3490 a person, twin share.

Volunteers at a bus station in Ho Chi Minh City hold banners offering free job search guidance to youngsters coming in from other provinces Enterprises in Ho Chi Minh City are short of manual labor as the unskilled workforce has largely become skilled in search of well-paid jobs in a country with a per capital income of US$1,540. HCMC this month ... (more)

US veteran Mike Kerber, now a peace activist in Chicago, pictured here at the War Remnants Museum, Ho Chi Minh City, operated large artillery like this in the A Shau Valley As we made our way in the darkness of the Vinh Moc tunnels, I ran my hands over the well-worn rock of the narrow passageway.

Patrick Boehler has written for Time, Bloomberg, Le Monde Diplomatique and the Chinese weekly Shidai Zhoubao.

Vietnam has set a US$40 billion revenue target from electronics exports by 2017, Xinhua news agency reported.

Ho Chi Minh City will be transformed into a modern city centre with more green spaces, pedestrian-only streets and efficient public transportation means including trams, rapid bus transits and ferries.

Ho Chi Minh city May 14, 2013 - Park Hyatt Saigon and George V Records, Buddha-Bar Music Label and Distribution Company, will be hosting Buddha-Bar XV, "A Chill Wind from Russia", album release party on 29 June 2013 at 9 pm in 2 Lam Son Bar.

New hi-tech solution will have very limited impact on vexing problem of taxi fraud, authorities yet to show real intent, experts say Fake taxis in front of the Ben Thanh Market in Ho Chi Minh City's District 1. The area is notorious for the presence of fake taxis backed by criminal gangs that extort exorbitant fares from unsuspecting locals and ... (more)

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Zhejiang Export Fair will be held in Vietnam's southern Ho Chi Minh City from May 16 to 18, as one of the linkage to boost investment and trade between Vietnam and China's Zhejiang province.

'Husband and children' , one of Choe's artworks on display at Tu Do Gallery in Ho Chi Minh City.

An employee of Saigon Air Taxi hands out money to French tourists whom they had cheated during an earlier exchange Two employees of a taxi company unauthorized to exchange money managed to cheat dozens of French tourists who sought the service at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.

Nowhere is the current pace of Vietnam more palpable than on Route 1A, the transnational highway that races from the Chinese border in the north to the lowlands of the Mekong Delta.