Business Times: Vietnam passes historic redrawing of provincial map; Ho Chi Minh City trebles in size, becomes megacity
Vietnam passes historic redrawing of provincial map; Ho Chi Minh City trebles in size, becomes megacity
In a major overhaul, the country has nearly halved the number of provinces and cities to streamline governing and raise efficiency [HO CHI MINH CITY] Vietnam’s parliament on Thursday (Jun 12) gave the ...
Vietnam's National Assembly on Saturday approved a $67 billion high-speed rail project to connect Hanoi in the north to Ho Chi Minh City in the south. The 1,541-kilometer (957-mile) railway is ...
VietNamNet: Vietnamese - English bilingual book about President Ho Chi Minh launched
The Su That (Truth) National Political Publishing House has launched a Vietnamese - English bilingual book entitled "President Ho Chi Minh – Biography and Career". According to the publishing house, ...
The Ho Chi Minh trail was a logistical system that ran from the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam) to the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) through the neighboring kingdoms of Laos and ...
During the Vietnam War, communists used the Ho Chi Minh Trail to supply guns, ammunition and food to the South to fight against U.S. and South Vietnamese government forces. The trail was a network of ...
National Geographic news: Mountain Bike the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam
The Vietnamese used the Ho Chi Minh Trail, a nest of jungle-choked paths and roads through the mountains, to ferry supplies during the Vietnam War, and they largely did it with bicycles. Now, ...