Political, Social, Environmental, and Popular News on Vietnam
Saturday, May 22, 2010
May 22, 2010Thursday, July 22, 2010
2010-07-22 Click for Audio Bưu Điện Sài Gòn, một kiến trúc lâu đời mang dáng nét Tây Phương, là điểm đẹp của nơi được mệnh danh “Hòn Ngọc Viễn Đông “thuở trước và thành phố Hồ Chí Minh bây giờ. Đến bưu điện trung tâm Sài Gòn, thể nào quí vị cũng thấy một người [...]
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
26/5/2010 Thay vì phát triển về vùng cao phía Đông – Đông Bắc thì TP HCM lại chọn hướng ngược lại; các khu đô thị phía Nam Nhà Bè mọc lên tại các khu vực vùng trũng trước đây là hồ chứa nước khiến Sài Gòn ngày càng ngập nặng. Nhận định này của nhiều [...]
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
In 1970, the U.S. Navy Officer in Charge of Construction RVN awarded a construction contract to a French construction contractor, Eiffel-Asie, to construct a bridge across the La Nga River on national highway QL-20 running north of Sai Gon to Dalat. This was the first construction contract awarded outside of the work the huge American [...]
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
While in Saigon to manage construction contracts to Vietnamese construction contractors in 1972, I worked with a company called VIHICO to build a large storm drainage tunnel two or three kilometers long. The project was called Vo Thanh Drain, which might have been for the name of the street that was dug up during construction [...]
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
![RMK-BRJ Construction Legacy in Việt Nam Today [Part 3]](http://watdaconheo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/62-150x150.jpg)
Between 1965 and 1972, the consortium of the four largest American construction companies, RMK-BRJ, built much of the infrastructure of the lines of communications now serving southern Việt Nam today. All of the photographs below were taken in 1972 — click on any of them to enlarge it. The Newport Saigon River depot (now called [...]
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
![Getting civilian military construction done -- RMK-BRJ [Part 1]](http://watdaconheo.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/newtoday-150x150.jpg)
KBR (formerly the M.W. Kellogg Company and Brown & Root, Inc.) is the 4th largest American construction firm today (listed by Engineering News Record) and is a subsidiary firm of Halliburton, well known for its former CEO, now U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney. KBR makes the news regularly under criticism of the non-competitive sole-source contracts [...]
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
From November 1971 through November 1972, I was privileged to live in the heart of Saigon, known as District One. I say privileged because the American military was on its way out of Vietnam and military personel were discouraged from entering Saigon. Since I was assigned to the Officer in Charge 0f Construction (OICC RVN), [...]
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
25/05/2010 Theo thông lệ “ngầm” hằng năm của học sinh trường Minh Khai (tp.Hồ Chí Minh), sau khi kết thúc lễ bế giảng, các bạn teen sẽ lần lượt nhảy xuống hồ bơi của trường để ghi dấu 3 năm gắn bó với trường í. Trường THPT Minh Khai có một hồ bơi rất lớn [...]
Sunday, May 2, 2010
04/04/2010 VietNamNet Bridge – When the sun sets, many modern Saigon youth gather at discotheques and night clubs to waste another night. Tuoi Tre investigated. Humble playboys Following Lam, a young playboy, Tuoi Tre reporters went to a café on Nguyen Kiem Road in HCM City’s Phu Nhuan district. At 8 pm, Lam summoned his [...]
Thursday, April 29, 2010
April 28, 2010 Editor’s note: CNN.com is collecting tales of the Vietnamese diaspora. Here is one family’s story. If your family left Vietnam after the war, tell us about it here. Decatur, Georgia (CNN) — The Vietnam War ended with the fall of Saigon 35 years ago this week, but Hong Nguyen will never surrender. [...]
Thursday, April 29, 2010
April 28, 2010 Source: SeattleTimes
Thursday, April 29, 2010
04/28/2010 The first inkling Kim Lien Pham had that the war was finally ending came when she found the gold bars her mother had sewed into her underwear. Growing up in Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, the 7-year-old had turned a blissfully blind eye to the blood being shed on battlefields across her war-weary [...]
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
1961 Saigon Vietnam from watdaconheo on Vimeo.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
April 7, 2010 – by Larry Engelmann Gas thieves and rampant corruption contributed to South Vietnam’s collapse. Now, the only person convicted of corruption amidst the rampant kleptomania declares his innocence. GRAHAM MARTIN, the last U.S. ambassador to South Vietnam, was convinced of two things: first, David Simmons had one of the most disturbing and [...]
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Trong tuần đầu tiên của tháng 3, cộng đồng Youtube Việt Nam được khuấy đảo bởi một cô bạn xinh xắn, dễ thương sinh năm 1993 mang tên Thái Trinh. Họ tên đầy đủ: Nguyễn Thị Thái Trinh Nickname : Trinh Xù, Chinsu Ngày sinh: 9/9/1993 Hiện đang sống tại: Sai Gon Học sinh lớp [...]
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Zing Model Club Casting – Saigon, Vietnam from watdaconheo on Vimeo.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Unbelievable story but believe it! Ever since this Taiwanese MSG company was in operation, pollutions of all kinds were discharged into the Thi Vai River killing the river slowly. Only last year, after 14 years in operation that the authorities and Vietnam media took any serious action. With the death of Thi Vai River, farmers [...]
Monday, September 28, 2009
September 2, 2009 HCMC’s largest cable-stayed bridge to open ahead of schedule Ho Chi Minh City’s largest cable-stayed bridge across the Saigon River will open to traffic on Wednesday, four months before the four-year project’s deadline. From September 9 onwards, vehicles will be allowed to go over the bridge that connects District 2 and District [...]
