VietNamNet Bridge – More swimming pools need to be built at local schools, the HCM City Department of Education and Training has said.

VietNamNet Bridge – The local Fatherland Front plans to strengthen relations with overseas Vietnamese, who send millions of US dollar as remittances each year to the country, by forming new clubs and making adjustments to State policies.

VietNamNet Bridge – The HCM City Export Processing and Industrial Zone Authority has petitioned city authorities to suspend operations and withdraw the license of a leather company for repeatedly discharging untreated wastewater into a local river

 VietNamNet Bridge – In a city were fashion shows are dime a dozen, it takes something special to stand out.

 VietNamNet Bridge - More than 1,000 athletes from 21 countries and the host will attend the HCM City open international X-Games 2013 on November 29-30, announced by the organizing board on October 28.

VietNamNet Bridge – Both occupancy rate and revenue per available room (RevPAR) of hotels in HCM City fell slightly in the third quarter due to increase in room numbers and lower demand.

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 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City Education and Training Department has decided to stop the controversial enrolment mechanism under which schools admit students based on their grade books.

 VietNamNet Bridge – The municipal Department of Education and Training is compiling a new set of standards that will strengthen its assessment of training quality at international high schools in the city.

 VietNamNet Bridge - At least three junior secondary schools in HCM City have detected students taking Recotus cough medicine to have the “sense of excitement, no longer afraid of the teacher’s scolding."

 VietNamNet Bridge – Ben Thanh Market, in the heart of HCM City, has been selected by the USA Today as one of the best food markets around the world, which offers a peek into the cultural and culinary lives of the people in the southern hub.

 VietNamNet Bridge – Saigon, known today as Ho Chi Minh City, is now a haven for vintage motorbikes. Not only treasuring the value of the past, the collectors are working to benefit the community also.

VietNamNet Bridge – The fourth quarter of this year is expected to witness an increase in leasing activity across most sectors as well as increased investor enquiries from abroad,

France’s Arties Quartet music band will give a classical concert at the French Cultural Centre L’Espace on October 31 to mark the 40th anniversary of diplomatic ties between France and Vietnam.

 VietNamNet Bridge – A flood-tide rising to 1.59m, exceeded the level three warning, flooded a number of roads in HCM City on Saturday afternoon.

VietNamNet Bridge – The War Remnants Museum is filled with the fragrance of grass and rice, punctuated by the lingering smoke of cooking fires. Foreign visitors watch on as old women - one time guerrilla fighters - cook the rice

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City education authorities have decided to ease the pressure on children in first grade by having teachers merely remark about their performance and no longer mark their exercises and test papers.

 VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has approved an adjustment of master plans by the HCM City EPZ Authority (HEPZA) that will make its industrial parks (IPs) and Export Processing Zones (EPZs) more attractive to investors.

  Updated information about cultural events in big cities of Vietnam.

VietNamNet Bridge – A visit to Helene Kling’s house and also her studio-art school in HCMC’s District 2 to attend a reception for her upcoming exhibition Fer De Reve next month helped me discover a French artist with a deep love for Vietnam,