Located on Mai Chi Tho Boulevard, Victoria Village is a housing complex with condos, villas and houses. Victoria Village will be developed in District 2 of Ho Chi Minh City by Novaland. (Photo for illustration) An introductory event for the villas would be organized on January 21, the company announced. There will be four apartment blocks with 25 floors with a total of 900 condos with one to three bedrooms designed in European style, according to the developers. They will range in size from 52sq.m to 95sq.m. The prices would start at VND 2.5 billion (USD 109,000), it said. There will be 92 villas and houses with the former ranging from 160sq.m to 394sq.m and the latter from 107.2 sq.m to 298.4 sq.m. Novaland said the project would have all amenities including a 5,000sq.m swimming pool, kids play yard, and gym. Construction will be complete in the first quarter of 2020. Novaland’s projects are mostly in Ho Chi Minh City and include The Sun Avenue, Sunrise City and Sunrise Riverside. Source: VNA
A downpour early Saturday evening turned multiple streets in Ho Chi Minh City into ‘rivers’ as local houses were unroofed by severe winds. A drove of vehicles suffered from engine failure in the waist-deep water, leading to traffic congestion on some outskirt roads. On National Road 50, which connects Ho Chi Minh City with the Mekong Delta provinces of Long An and Tien Giang, kilometers of vehicles could be observed stranded in water deeper than one meter. Nguyen Van Linh and Huynh Tan Phat Streets in District 7 also suffered from congestion as hundreds of commuters were forced to seek…... [read more]
An opening ceremony of a new route from New Zealand’s Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City in Viet Nam was held on June 5 with the attendance of Secretary of the Ho Chi Minh City Party Committee Dinh La Thang. The new service will be offered 3 flights a week on a seasonal basis, operating from June 4 to October 29 in 2016 with a flight time of around 11 hours. Passengers have also another choice to take a flight in Ho Chi Minh City and make a transit in Singapore before continuing the flight to New Zealand. …... [read more]
NDO – Low-cost carrier VietJet Air will open its new flight route linking Ho Chi Minh City and Seoul (the Republic of Korea) since November this year with seven flights a week. The first flight will leave on November 7, departing from Tan Son Nhat Airport at 00:15 (local time) and arriving at Incheon Airport at 07:25 (local time). The return flight departs at 11:20 (local time) from Incheon and arrives at Tan Son Nhat at 14:50 (local time). On the occasion, the carrier launched a special promotion offering 50,000 tickets from VND0 (excluding tax and other additional fees) for…... [read more]
The 987.3m-long, 23.5m-wide, four-lane bridge,built just a few metres away from the old Sai Gon Bridge, will have alifespan of 100 years and can survive earthquakes of up to 5.5magnitude. The 1.5 trillion VND (about 71 millionUSD) bridge is expected to ease traffic on the constantly overloaded SaiGon Bridge, which is nearly five decades old. The BT(build-transfer) project is also aimed at unclogging the city'snortheastern entrance, according to the builder, the Ho Chi Minh CityInfrastructure Investment Joint Stock Co. The new bridge ismeant for vehicles travelling from Binh Thanh to District 2, and the oldone, for vehicles in the opposite…... [read more]
The house was founded in 2006 in the district’s Binh Hung Commune by Ngo Thi Kim Van, with the aim of bringing together orphans and disadvantaged children and giving them one more chance to live in happiness and affection.It comprised over 32 children with different backgrounds, personalities and even psychological trauma that made them stubborn and hard to be managed at first.Van, through great effort, gradually made the youngsters feel affection and turned them into friendly, generous children.The place was shut down on June 15 as it did not meet criteria in terms of facilities, operation licenses, and human resources…... [read more]
