Residents in several apartment buildings in Ho Chi Minh City are complaining about the ban on keeping pets at their apartments. A woman walks her dog at a apartment building in Ho Chi Minh City The Ehome3 Apartment Building in Binh Tan District announced on December 26 that all dogs and cats must be taken out of the building before January 1, 2018, which has outraged many people living here.A resident, Pham Thi Phuong, complained that that was a ridiculous ban. “There’s no reason to ban us from keeping pets at our home if this doesn’t affect anyone or the environment,” Phuong said. “The announcement came out of the blue so we don’t have enough time to prepare for this.”Another resident, Nguyen Van Truong also insisted that he won’t take his dog and cat out of his home.”We keep them indoors most of the time and they don’t disturb anyone,” Truong said.According to a representative from the Ehome 3’s management board, Vo Dy, residents aren’t carefully monitoring their pets when they let them out.”This is threatening others and polluting the environment so we have to issue the ban,” Dy claimed.The same issue has caused uproar at the Hoang Anh Thanh Binh Apartment Building in District 7 for the last three months.However, it seems impossible to carry out the ban due to a lack of legal basis.Chairman of the Ward 2 People’s Committee in District 5, Huynh Dac Nha, said that the Ministry of Construction’s circular only bans the raising of…
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A tower of 86 storeys will be built in the Thu Thiem new urban area in HCM City, the highest of its kind in Vietnam. Vinhomes Centre Park The municipal authorities have granted a license to Empire City Joint Venture to build a surveillance tower complex, with total investment of VND26trn. The project covers an area of 14.5 ha on the Sai Gon River and Mai Chi Tho Road. The complex encompasses a five-star hotel, service areas and trade centre. Construction of the project is expected to start in the fourth quarter of this year and is…... [read more]
HCM CITY — The Sài Gòn Water Supply Corporation (SAWACO) and Vinci Construction Grands Projects – Bessac CW1 on Wednesday began construction of an underground water pipe to improve the city centre’s water supply. This will be the city’s largest water pipe, with a diametre of 2.4 metres and length of 10 kilometres. The pipe starts at Thủ Đức District’s Bình Thái intersection and heads toward District 1’s Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm – Điện Biên Phủ junction. It will help deliver water from the Thủ Đức water plant toward the city centre and nearby districts Bình Thạnh, District 3, and Phú…... [read more]
{mosimage}HCM City Peoples? Committee to hold design contest for Can Gio eco-tourism area. Can Gio district is 50 km southeast of HCM City centre. It covers an area of 457 ha, and houses 63,000 residents, who mainly earn a living through aquaculture. Can Gio occupies one third of HCM City ?s total area with a total space of 71,000 ha, half of which is a biosphere reserve recognized by UNESCO in 2000. The area has no big economic centres as in other districts of HCM City , and it is estimated that 25,000 ha of land, has not been used.…... [read more]
The plan calls for combining the B2 and B3 blocks into a larger area to develop the Sai Gon Cultural and Tourism Village, designed to feature the cultural characteristics of the three regions (the north, the central and the south) of Vietnam.The project includes areas showing the 300 years of history of Sai Gon – HCM City, with waterway landscapes featuring river ports docking large numbers of vessels and boats in the Mekong Delta.The city People’s Committee approved the adjustment and enlargement of the B1 commercial and service area into A4 and A3 areas, into bigger B1-B4 commercial and service…... [read more]
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New Natural History Museum in HCM City’s District 9 (Photo courtesy of the Science - Technology and Production Corporation) HCM City (VNA) - Vietnam’s first natural history museumwill be built in HCM City on an area of 23.9 hectares inside the Historical andCultural Park in District 9.The construction will include a 20-ha botanical garden and museum which willdisplay over 20,000 species of flora and fauna of Vietnam. It will also have aresearch centre as well as facility to preserve gene resources.Le Dung, general director of the Science Technology and Production Corp (PTC),which is in charge of developing the project, said:…... [read more]
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Total investment in the first project phase would be over VNĐ1 trillion (US$44.05 million), including construction costs of around VNĐ800 billion (over US$35.24 million), which would be taken from the leftover capital from the HCM City - Long Thành - Dầu Giây Expressway project. Phase one of the project includes a two-way tunnel with two lanes in each direction, which would connect the HCM City - Long Thành - Dầu Giây Expressway to Mai Chí Thọ Street and Sài Gòn River Tunnel.In addition, a two-lane tunnel would be built to connect the HCM City - Long Thành - Dầu Giây Expressway…... [read more]
The HCM City People’s Committee plans to build two more water plants in an aim to improve water supply by 2019 (Photo: plo.vn)HCMCity (VNA) - The HCM City People’s Committee plans to build twomore water plants in an aim to improve water supply by 2019.Constructionof the Kenh Dong No 2 Water Plant will be completed in 2018 and the Thu Duc No4 Water Plant in 2019.Thetwo water plants will supply about 550,000 cu.m daily, increasing the totalclean water supply from current 2.4 million cu.m daily to 2.95 million cu.mdaily in 2019.Thecity will invest 3.45 trillion VND (155 million USD) in 995,000km…... [read more]
In its recent document submitted to theGovernment, HCM City proposes implementing the project at My ThuyRoundabout using capital advanced by the investor and paid by the citylater. The deferred payment will come with interest.As proposed,the first phase of the project will consist of an overpass in thedirection of Belt Road No. 2 and a tunnel underneath the existingroundabout. The investment cost of phase one is estimated at 770 billionVND (over 35.3 million USD) as no site clearance and compensation arerequired.The city wants to pick an investor via a tender tocarry out the first phase of the project. The selected investor…... [read more]
