Saigon is getting ready to join the subway club, starting with the Bến Thành Market - Suối Tiên line which is set to open in 2018.
While the above ground portion along the North-South highway has been underway for years, last week construction began in the city center, promising to change the face of the area forever.
After hearing that they were cutting down century old trees and closing off the street from traffic, we headed down to Lê Lợi Street last Friday to check out the progress.
A Hanoi woman claims that she was drugged at a HCMC hotel last weekend and awoke to find that a $100,000 diamond had been pried from her ring.
Flower Street and the statues in front of Bến Thành Market aren’t the only sacrifices being made to accommodate the construction of Saigon’s first metro line.
The World Records Association (WRA) has completed the verification process and officially confirmed Saigon’s 122-year-old Nguyen Thi Tru, as the world’s oldest woman.
The trees that were cut down last July during construction of the metro station in front of the Saigon Opera House are making a comeback in the form of benches.
Saigon authorities have given the go-ahead for a US$8.7 million road through the UNESCO recognized Can Gio biosphere reserve that will necessitate the felling of 18,600 trees.
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