Monday, April 05, 2021, 17:22 GMT+7
Motorbike riders navigate through floodwater on Nguyen Huu Canh Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District. Photo: Chau Tuan / Tuoi Tre
After a heavy rain that lasted half an hour on Sunday, residents of Nguyen Huu Canh Street in Binh Thanh District, Ho Chi Minh City saw floodwater rising rapidly due to the incompetent sewer system in the area.
Nguyen Huu Canh Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District is deep under floodwater, April 4, 2021. Video: Chau Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Nguyen Huu Canh Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Thanh District is deep under floodwater, April 4, 2021. Video: Chau Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Sunday, April 04, 2021, 11:45 GMT+7
This caricature shows neighbors suffering deafening karaoke music from a man in Vietnam.
They should have compulsory singing lessons, shouldn’t they?
It will not fix the problem but if you’re going to drive everyone nuts, at least do it in style. Moves have been afoot to crack down on street noise in
Ho Chi Minh City from shop front karaoke speakers to the outrageously loud music coming from pubs and bars in these crowded cities.
COVID-19 did affect the number of outdoor and street venues which made things quieter in Ho Chi Minh City for a while but with the lifting of bans and restrictions, it will all come back with a vengeance. The current plan for both cities is to issue warnings until June, when fines and penalties will be imposed. There’s obviously little sympathy for the street singers worried about losing their businesses yet some karaoke venues fear that they’ll struggle to recover economically from recent lockdown measures.
Saturday, January 02, 2021, 11:26 GMT+7
People visit the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, January 1, 2021. Photo: Chau Tuan / Tuoi Tre
Despite higher ticket prices, people flocked to the Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens (Thao Cam Vien)
in Ho Chi Minh City on Friday, the first day of the ongoing three-day New Year holiday, in an effort to help the Vietnam’s oldest zoo raise ticket sales that have been hit severely by COVID-19.
Starting January 1, ticket prices at the zoo, located in District 1, have been increased from VND30,000 (US$1.3) to VND40,000 ($1.7) apiece for visitors under 1.3m tall and from VND50,000 ($2.16) to VND60,000 ($2.6) apiece for those above that height.