Police Face Challenges in Deaf, Dumb Suspect’s Case

The police in Dong Nai Province are finding it difficult to handle a deaf, dumb and illiterate man who allegedly hit a man with an iron bar on October 4. The victim died one day later from a severe brain injury. Read More »

Learning to Say No to Plastic Bags

Leaving the market, Nguyen Bich Hao from Phung Khac Khoan Street, Hai Ba Trung District carries almost all the food and other items she has bought in her handbasket. Read More »

German Wins First Vertical Race in Vietnam

Thomas Dold from Germany, the world’s defending champion of vertical run, was crowned the winner today at the 178m vertical race in Ho Chi Minh City’s Bitexco Financial Tower. Read More »

Ho Chi Minh City Under Water

Ho Chi Minh City has been dealing with the effects of heavy flooding over the past few days. Read More »

VN, US Surgeons to Operate on Man’s 90kg Tumour

American and Vietnamese surgeons will operate on a man at a HCM City hospital next month to remove a tumour on his right leg estimated to weigh 90kg. Read More »

Conjoined Baby Girls Won’t Be Separated

Doctors have decided not to perform any surgery on the conjoined twins, born last Tuesday in Soc Trang Province, after the consultation on October 18. Read More »

Korean Doomsday Cult Promising Deliverance in Saigon

A Korean-origin doomsday cult claims to have won over adherents in Ho Chi Minh City who are now awaiting the end of the world and, with its assistance, will go to Heaven. Read More »

Prematurely Aged Woman’s Skin Sample to be Sent to US

Doctors of the HCM City Medical University Hospital conducted skin tests but they could not find out the reason that made Nguyen Thi Phuong, a 26-year-old woman age overnight. Read More »

Women Taught Self-Defense in Crime-Ridden HCM City

At a woman’s cultural center in Ho Chi Minh City one evening, 39-year-old Kim Chi watches instructor Bach Van An show trainees how to react when someone tries to strangle from behind. Soon she starts to practice the moves herself. Read More »

Wanted Aussie Returns from HCMC to Face Murder Charge

A Sydney man who left Australia days after being wounded in a gunfight has returned two years later to be charged with the murder of his alleged attacker. Read More »

Cockfighting is Big Business in HCM City

Lam Van Tay, a breeder of ornamental cocks in Ho Chi Minh City’s Binh Tan District, has brought along two small cocks to show them off. The beautiful birds suddenly flare their neck feathers, angrily flap their wings, and aggressively attack each other with raised claws. Read More »

Young Woman with Aged Face Admitted for Treatment

26-year-old Nguyen Thi Phuong, who turned into an old woman virtually overnight possibly due to mastocytosis, was admitted to Ho Chi Minh City University medical center this afternoon for treatment. Read More »

The Fall of the Malls in HCM City

In an age where consumerism is king, there’s no hiding from the fact that big shopping malls are a booming international business. Well, everywhere except Ho Chi Minh City, that is. Read More »

HCMC’s Bitexco Tower #5 in CNN’s 20 Iconic Skyscrapers

Designed to represent Vietnam’s national flower, the lotus, this 262-meter skyscraper is meant to characterize the beauty and growth of the city below. Read More »

Chinese Clinics in HCM City: Curing or Conning?

Doctors at many Chinese-owned clinics in Ho Chi Minh City have given deceitful prescriptions to patients, sold medicines at exorbitant prices, and in some cases, caused complications, many readers told Tuoi Tre. Read More »

HCMC Ranks in Top 10 Oktoberfests Outside Germany

Not every Oktoberfest reveler will know they’re toasting the 19th-century marriage of a Bavarian crown prince as they guzzle beer and bratwurst for two weeks each autumn. Read More »

Famous Chef, Bobby Chinn Talks New HCMC Restaurant

Casually dressed in a black T-shirt, jeans and suede loafers, a surprisingly relaxed Bobby Chinn walks through the site in Kumho Plaza that will, in a few short months, be his latest restaurant. The location on Hai Ba Trung in District 1 is still very much a concrete shell, dust from the construction activity hanging heavy in the air. Read More »

A Journey Through Vietnam

A Journey Through Vietnam by Leon Visser Read More »

HCM City Youth With A Dangerous Hobby & Weapon

A worrying phenomenon has recently emerged in Ho Chi Minh City where some youths have used home-made petrol bombs to attack rivals or settle personal conflicts. Read More »

‘Broken Wings’ Music Video Filmed in the Slums of Saigon

Broken Wings – Thai ft. Liz Stefano (Produced by Traxamillion) Read More »