Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam News

The City of Johannesburg has written off a staggering R2.8-billion in debt - or a 10th of its 2009-2010 budget.

IBM says it's been hired to build an e-government cloud for Saigon, now Ho Chi Minh City, the one-time capital of South Vietnam.

Ongoing hostilities between Cambodia and Thailand are believed to be jeopardising the completion of the Trans-Asian Railway.

The 350 room hotel is to be built in the city centre in District 1 and is scheduled to open in 2012.

The architectural character of Ho Chi Minh City lacks coherence, creativity and a specific identity of its own, experts said at a meeting held last week.

People infected with the virus that causes AIDS should start treatment earlier than currently recommended, the World Health Organization said Monday.

Police escort Vu Van Luan, Tran Van Khoa and Ngo Chi Huan from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh City late October.

When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.

Telstra International, a leading global provider of managed network solutions, today unveiled a series of initiatives to deepen its connectivity in key Asian growth markets in Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Health experts Wednesday were troubled by news that Ho Chi Minh City hospitals are discharging 20,000 cubic metres per day of untreated wastewater into public sewers and rivers.

It sounds like the plot of a tear-jerking movie a ' a nurse travelled to Vietnam to help an orphaned boy with a horrific skin disorder.

This is the best time of the year to visit the Indo-China region.This is the time of the year when the climate changed from hot and humid to cooler weather, possibly a spin-off from the winter in the Himalayas.The cool breeze takes heat off the land making it much more pleasant to walk around without suffering the intense heat of the hot and humid ...

SMITH LAKE -- Wayne Patton doesn't consider himself a hero, but in a dense jungle on March 26, 1970, he sure acted like one.

The bodies of two of three students who slipped and were swept away by rapids as they played at a waterfall were found Saturday in Dong Nai Province.

A new environment tax on fuel products is necessary but it will drive up transport costs and hence consumer prices, experts say, suggesting the rate be low.

With Q4 2009 not even at its halfway point, the PALME team has already planned a host of activities for both exhibitors and visitors for next year's exhibition to capitalise on the present market opportunities in the Indochina.

SK Energy Co., Korea s leading refiner, has discovered an oil deposit at a jointly owned offshore field in Vietnam, the Seoul government said yesterday.

Water released by a broken pipeline punctured two holes in a busy Ho Chi Minh City road Monday morning.

Today Crystal and I decided to take a tour of the Cu Chi Tunnels... The tunnels of Cu Chi are an immense network of connecting underground tunnels and are part of a much larger network of tunnels that underlie much of the country.

Seven decades and counting, an archaeological site continues to yield vestiges of one of Vietnam's three most prominent ancient cultures.