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Snacking on street food has long been a part of Ho Chi Minh City’s culture and one local favorite, especially in the cooler rainy season, is banh cay (spicy cake).

The small crispy golden cakes cost less than VND10,000 (56 U.S. cents) for three or four pieces.
They are especially popular after a rain shower, [...]

The biennial Nha Trang Sea Festival will heat up the summer days in central Vietnam’s seaside resort city of Nha Trang from June 6 to 12.

The fourth Nha Trang Sea Festival will include 67 cultural, sport and tourism activities, Khanh Hoa Province People’s Committee Deputy Chairman Le Xuan Than announced on April 25. [...]

“Dieu sao” are Vietnamese kites that make music, so interesting! If you are in Vietnam, you will have a chance to fly the interesting “dieu sao”.
Kite flying is popular throughout the year, especially in summer. Vietnamese people of different ages make kites of many shapes, sizes, materials and with bamboo [...]

Nuoc Beach gently slopes towards the calm, clear, blue sea; the clarity of the water attracts visitors who come to bathe and enjoy the seafood. This fine sandy beach with sunshine all the year round makes it suitable for tourism in all four seasons.
Da Nang has a coastline of 30 [...]

Ho Chi Minh City police are looking for three South Korean men and the women they chose from an illegal parade organized at a house in District 8 Friday.
The police apprehended a broker who had illegally arranged to parade 69 women for the three Korean men looking to purchase brides.
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Pham Van Thang, a [...]

Con Dao, also known as Dao Ngoc (Pearl Island), in the East Sea about 97 nautical miles from Vung Tau City, is endowed with lovely beaches shaded with evergreen trees, fresh air, clear blue waters, primitive forests and abundant wildlife. These days Con Dao also offers fishing and squid fishing services, which are becoming increasingly [...]

“Try to rescue ourselves rather than wait for God. If you try hard, your efforts will be repaid,” said Le Quoc An, Chairman of the Vietnam Textile and Garment Group, repeating the mantra of many Vietnamese enterprises in the current difficulties.”

Going to find partners

Apparel, the number one export item in the ‘club of $1bil [...]

Presiding over a meeting this afternoon with the competent ministries, sectors and enterprises, Deputy PM Hoang Trung Hai confirmed the policies to encourage and grant tax and loan incentives for bio-fuel projects.

Developing bio-fuels is a necessary step of Vietnam’s energy industry.
Deputy PM Hai stressed the need of developing renewable bio-fuels to partly replace fossil [...]

A lot of export companies have decided to take out normal loans with high interest rates instead of getting loans under the 4% interest rate subsidy programme, because with the soft loans, they have to promise to sell dollars to banks as soon as they earn them.

The problem lies in the fact that businesses [...]

The country’s movie industry has to make a choice: look at itself honestly to seek a way for development or be drowned by a wave of foreign films. The Vietnam Cinema Agency’s vice chief Le Ngoc Minh and director Bui Thac Chuyen talk about this.

 
Audience members lining up to buy tickets for New-Year-holiday films.

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