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Ho Chi Minh City to widen river bus network

By Huu Cong April 10, 2017 | 11:37 am GMT+7


This is how the city's new river bus will look like. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Nguyen

The new routes will connect District 1 with District 7 to the south.

The Ho Chi Minh City municipal administration has approved two more river bus routes connecting the downtown with new urban areas in District 7, after the first two scheduled to flow this summer.

The new routes will link Bach Dang Wharf in District 1 with Phu Thuan Ward and Phu My Hung area in District 7, which is around six kilometers (4 miles) to the southeast.

The transport and investment departments will submit a proposal to the prime minister for consideration after the city's mayor has approved the additional routes. No schedule has been announced.

Ho Chi Minh City has decided to make better use of its waterways to clear clogged streets.

They have selected the investor for the first two ferry services, which are estimated to cost VND120 billion ($5.3 million) and slated to start this June.

One route will link the Bach Dang Wharf with Thu Duc District, passing through District 2 and Binh Thanh District over the Saigon River and Thanh Da Canal before reaching its final stop on the Binh Quoi River in the northeastern district.

Another route of more than 10 kilometers will run from the downtown wharf to District 8, passing through districts 4, 5, and 6 and docking at the Ben Nghe-Tau Hu canal.

Tickets will cost VND15,000 ($0.7) apiece.

Ho Chi Minh City is also set to build extra piers to serve the new service, which is said to be well connected with bus and metro routes. The city also announced late last year plans to develop a floating market to boost tourism.

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The hidden weight loss charm of Vietnam

STIVI COOKE
UPDATED : 04/10/2017 09:54 GMT + 7


Surely you will lose some weight getting out of this traffic in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Tuoi Tre

Weight loss could be Vietnam’s next tourism draw card. Ignored as a potential benefit in the rush to build casinos and resorts in endangered habitats, weight-challenged tourists could do no better than to try some of the activities I’m advocating in this article.

I’m not talking about the obvious benefits of eating pho, morning yoga classes or sitting on baby stools. Bumpy jeep tours, scary racing bike country marathons, abseiling, cave exploring and sitting through a four-hour karaoke session also don’t qualify. There are dozens of things that you might not ordinarily associate with weight loss that have that ‘hidden charm’ which is promoted so brilliantly in Vietnam.

The beauty of this kind of program is you don’t have to be fit to do this, in fact, it’s even better if you have high cholesterol or blood pressure or the impending need for triple-bypass heart surgery.

With a calorie burning guide that someone should make into an app, I’ll kick off this list with arriving in Vietnam.

Burn rate: 40 to 70 calories per hour. If you’ve arrived by budget carrier, carry a backpack and need to defend your position in the visa-on-arrival queue during the rush to get to a smoking zone, congratulations, you’re already on the way to svelte-dom. If you ditch that wheeled luggage too, the strain of tense stomach muscles while consulting your GPS and finding the cheap city bus will improve your possible six-pack buffness.

Burn rate: 125 calories per hour. Traffic terror is great for losing those love-handles. Remember, the wider the road you have to cross, the more you burn. The rate increases with the attempt to magically stop traffic with an extended outwardly facing hand palm – it’s scarier. You can double the calories lost if you’re in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi – Da Nang is less but Hoi An is slightly more.

Burn rate: 150 calories per hour. Haggle in the markets – this is stressful, frustrating, time-consuming and often fruitless; excellent weight burners. Leave your wallet on the bathroom sink when you step on the scales, the lack of money from overpricing will give a false reading. It’s even better if you get into a shouting match with that tailor who didn’t sew the clothes the way you wanted and the shop calls the cops.

Burn rate: 170 calories per hour. Start a bar or café in a busy tourist area – this is an extended burner even if you’re sitting down as the strain of getting your Vietnamese partner to deal with suppliers and all the government forms begins to get you down. Arguing with other expat café owners adds 15 calories. This suggestion is only for the braver amongst us and requires the ability to suspend belief in the face of conflicting information from your agent and the bureaucracy. Add another 5 calories if the agent is your Vietnamese lover and you have to bite your tongue.

Burn rate: 200 calories per hour. Get a Vietnamese husband/wife/girlfriend or boyfriend. I hope I’ve included every category! The simple act of trying to understand each other and ‘why you did that’ and ‘I didn’t want you to do that’ can have stunning effects on your weight loss program and may speed up the time it takes to reach peak condition. Anything involving family dinners and weddings gives you bonus 10 calories. Early morning rice-whisky has a similar effect and ensuing arguments can triple the effect. Having a baby or deciding to build a house is a guaranteed two kilos shed off your target weight.

Burn rate: 225 calories per hour. The latest novelty trend is non-free tourist-funded clean-up campaigns. Picking up, bending down, shoveling and choking in garbage fumes all contribute calories. It’s even better if you do river clean-ups in kayaks or in front of beach front resorts while taking selfies of your caring actions in clearing away the rubbish of the nation you are visiting. Add 100 calories if you’re an organizer trying to de-trash a marine park or protect a UNESCO-nominated monkey preservation area from resort development.

Burn rate: 250 calories per hour. Ride a motorbike. You can do isometric exercises at the traffic lights, practice your swerving skills on the highways and yell at the taxis. Do you know riders shed 40 calories more than office workers per hour? Add the fear factor and parking your bike a little bit further from your destination and walking there are helpful too; trying to sell your bike when leaving Vietnam adds 20 more calories.

So visit Vietnam and become a more marvelous, unhidden you!

Author’s note:

Vocabulary

svelte: graceful and slim like a dancer

buff: having a body like a sportsperson

scales: telling you your weight but it’s often wrong

bite your tongue: not saying what you are really thinking!

isometric exercise: tensing your muscles while doing something else

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Subsidence causes road leading to Ho Chi Minh City to be wavy

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 04/09/2017 11:14 GMT + 7


A truck travels on the wavy Hanoi Highway that leads to the east entrance of Ho Chi Minh City.
Tuoi Tre

Serious subsidence has caused a major route leading to the east entrance of Ho Chi Minh City to become ‘wavy,’ endangering vehicles traveling on the road.

A section of Hanoi Highway, which connects District 9 in Ho Chi Minh City with neighboring provinces to the east of the city, has had its surface heavily distorted by severe subsidence.

As a large amount of traffic flows on the highway on a daily basis, its surface has become wave-like, with the gaps measuring about 10 to 20 centimeters deep, causing immense challenges for vehicles.

Commuters have to travel at a snail’s pace in order to avoid potential accidents.



Aside from the curvy surface, the asphalt cover of several parts of the road has also peeled off.

According to Tran Si Thang, director of Urban Traffic Management Zone No. 2, which manages the road section, the heavy load of daily traffic has driven the road to be degraded.

The unit will start to repair the road surface, Thang stated, adding that a layer of asphalt would be added on the affected section as a temporary measure to ensure traffic safety.

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Samkieu

Very interesting. Learn new words.

Dun pray pray.......

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

Original(ity) sin: Apple asks unauthorized phone shops in Vietnam to remove logo

By Huy Duc April 10, 2017 | 12:03 pm GMT+7

A lot of Apple products retailed in Vietnam are smuggled from Hong Kong and China, which are usually available sooner than the official ones distributed by Apple's official partners. Smuggled phones can also be cheaper.

Alamak its always more expensive in Wetnam when just launched in other cuntries as its not available in Wetnam yet ma, then why people bother to buy in other cuntries & resell them in Wetnam if the prices are cheaper leh

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[snipeshot08]

Originally Posted by Hurricane88

The hidden weight loss charm of Vietnam

STIVI COOKE
UPDATED : 04/10/2017 09:54 GMT + 7


Burn rate: 125 calories per hour. Traffic terror is great for losing those love-handles. Remember, the wider the road you have to cross, the more you burn. The rate increases with the attempt to magically stop traffic with an extended outwardly facing hand palm – it’s scarier. You can double the calories lost if you’re in Ho Chi Minh City or Hanoi – Da Nang is less but Hoi An is slightly more.


Burn rate: 200 calories per hour. Get a Vietnamese husband/wife/girlfriend or boyfriend. I hope I’ve included every category! The simple act of trying to understand each other and ‘why you did that’ and ‘I didn’t want you to do that’ can have stunning effects on your weight loss program and may speed up the time it takes to reach peak condition. Anything involving family dinners and weddings gives you bonus 10 calories. Early morning rice-whisky has a similar effect and ensuing arguments can triple the effect. Having a baby or deciding to build a house is a guaranteed two kilos shed off your target weight.

I like this guy's sense of humour especially the 2nd part about getting a wetnam wife

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Like that you also know clap clap clap.....yalor I really earn a six-digits 888,000 vietnam dong per month nia nia huhuhuhu not like you earning that same amount in 1 minute of your daily time

Oh yeah akan datang........:

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

I started to like your xnn.com....SGM jiu si SGM...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

You are the Mighty Transcended One leh, in chinese is called "Wan Neng" meaning you are all around us meaning whether I look up look down look left look right look centre also can see you mah so no need to really look for you also can find you

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Sometimes you really jialat...xao nhiu nhiu too much...anyway hua hee jiu hor...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Quota + Quit = Quita

A new powderful word from the Mighty One again

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

haha...sori hor...no spell check here...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by Samkieu

Very interesting. Learn new words.

Better dun learn here...spoil your England...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Dun pray pray.......

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Praying mantis I knew...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Alamak its always more expensive in Wetnam when just launched in other cuntries as its not available in Wetnam yet ma, then why people bother to buy in other cuntries & resell them in Wetnam if the prices are cheaper leh

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

simi...I no apple fan and thingy...so bo chap...

[Hurricane88]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

I like this guy's sense of humour especially the 2nd part about getting a wetnam wife

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

You long long time when mata wear shots already have wife mah...

[Samkieu]

Originally Posted by snipeshot08

Dun pray pray.......

Cheerios......SS08 ^_^

Noted and tks. So where you guys heading this long weekend.

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Authorities in home of Ha Long Bay spend $1.5mn building clock tower

TUOI TRE NEWS
UPDATED : 04/10/2017 17:32 GMT + 7


The clock tower is erected in the heart of Ha Long City, located in the northern Vietnamese province of Quang Ninh.
Tuoi Tre

Authorities in Ha Long City, the capital of Quang Ninh Province in northern Vietnam, have confirmed that they had spent VND35 billion (US$1.54 million) building a clock tower in the heart of the city home to Ha Long Bay.

Pham Hong Ha, chairman of the Ha Long People’s Committee, said that the amount was used to fund construction and provide back-up capital.

After thorough evaluation, the design of Salvador, one of the world’s 10 most famous architects, who had designed several constructions in Quang Ninh, was selected for the project, Ha said.

The entire structure was built with special materials and is decorated with fountains and a lighting system.

The VND35 billion ($1.54 million) fund covered the cost of design, materials, and construction work, the official stated, adding that it was taken from the local coffers.

Similar to other projects in the city, the clock tower was built after assessment, inspection, and auditing had been completed, Chairman Ha said.
The tower was built in early 2017 and completed in late March.

It is 28 meters tall, while its frame is made of steel, weighing 18 metric tons.
A total of 16 LED screens are installed around the tower to display time in Vietnam and in countries across the world.