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Vietnam
A series of infrastructural and legal hurdles continue to threaten Vietnam's ambitious wind energy targets.
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . ▪ Fresh litchi to be served on Vietnam Airlines’ flights [SGGP] ▪ Vietnam to swap all 11-digit mobile numbers for 10-digit format [Tuoi Tre]
Arts & Culture
In their latest crowdfunding project, Vietnam Centre is combining the fashion design and history in a comprehensive art book detailing the ancient Vietnamese costumes worn during the late Le dynasty.
Food Culture
It is a well-known fact among Vietnamese that their home country has a rich portfolio of fermented food, from mắm chua (pickled shrimp) to mắm tôm (shrimp paste). Here is a comprehensive look into not only these funky condiments' history, taste and production, but also the emerging food science behind them.
Vietnam
The new regulation will go into effect beginning July 1.
Hanoi
From June 30, around 4,300 of Hanoi’s motorcycle rickshaws will be impounded and eventually destroyed.
![[Photos] An Egret's Eye View of Saigon in 1969](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2018/06/June18/Aerial1969_SGRh.jpg)
Saigon
Experience an elegant egret's vantage point of the city circa 1969.
Health
The Nikkei Asia Prize is an annual award that recognizes people who have improved lives in Asia.
Vietnam
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . ▪ Five families evacuated in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta amid rising erosion risk [VnExpress] ▪ HCM City to host Asian-Pacific cities’ tourism promotion forum [VietnamNet]
![[Video] Raising a New Generation of Bamboo Lovers](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2018/06/bamboo-village/BambooVillage_SGRh.jpg)
Society
Bamboo is booming. All over the world, people are rediscovering the plant’s massive potential and technological innovation has enabled its use in pretty much any product you can think of. But how would a designer, engineer or architect know which specific type of bamboo to use for a project? There are over 1,000 species: some have higher tensile strength than steel, others are extremely flexible or have the perfect thickness for a straw.
Saigon
The efforts would be a vast improvement over the current 24%.
Roundups
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . ▪ Major airport runways require urgent repairs [DTI] ▪ Scrap imports choke Ho Chi Minh City ports [Tuoi Tre]
Music & Arts
The event will run for 4 weeks, giving Hanoians the chance to peruse works by some of the world’s most celebrated press photographers.
Education
The United Kingdom was recently ranked the #1 country in the world for education.
Society
Few would have predicted Nguyen Duc Tai, the son of a poor sticky-rice street vendor, would grow up to be Vietnam’s leading cell phone store visionary.
![[Photos] Vietnamese Teens Are Putting High School Textbook Covers on Their Shirts](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/2018/06/textbook-cover-on-a-tshirt/TextbookTshirts_SGRl.jpg)
Arts & Culture
What can you not put on a T-shirt?
Saigon
Vice Chairman Doan Ngoc Hai: sidewalk crusader , fire safety protector and now, aquaculture ally.
![[Photos] The Bygone Days of 1920s Vinh Long](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/NAcrgW2b.jpg)
Vietnam
Across the internet, there is ample documentation of Vietnam’s cities in the days of French colonialism. Turn-of-the-century countryside snaps, however, are a little harder to come by.
Vietnam
Stay connected with Saigoneer on Twitter and Instagram and like us on Facebook . ▪ HCMC among Asia's most enterprising cities [DTI] ▪ Scrap imports choke Ho Chi Minh City ports [Tuoi Tre]
Travel
When Shyam Goyal was in his thirties working as a mechanical engineer, he developed ulcers, arthritis, chest pain and rapidly deteriorating eyesight.
Vietnam
Applause filled the auditorium of Da Nang’s Duy Tan University on June 10 as Le Phuoc Thiet, midway through his eighties, stood among students his grandchildren’s age before receiving his master’s degree in business administration.
Vietnam
The giant Vietnamese real estate conglomerate Vingroup has announced plans to go into the mobile device market in a bid to challenge international rivals.
![[Photos] Exploring Dala Township on the River Yangon's South Shore](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/urbanisthanoi/article-images/2018/06/Dala/10b.jpg)
Travel
Only a 10-minute ferry ride from central Yangon, Dala is a blur of motorbike horns, trishaw drivers peddling scams and old ships rusting on the riverbank.
