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Vietnam Airlines Passenger Caught Smoking Mid-Flight
While some have claimed ignorance after opening airplane doors, mistaking them for a bathrooms , others, like 28-year-old Nguyen Canh Dinh, knowingly flaunt strict aviation rules.
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Vietnam
Vietnamese woman conned by 'foreign fiancé’ out of over $40,000 [Tuoi Tre] Government approves plan to adopt 4G [VOV] Vietnam to intensify regional transport connectivity [VOV]

Vietnam
It will take two days longer than expected to fix Vietnam’s branch of the Asia-America Gateway cable (AAG) due to bad weather.

Vietnam
During his short time in Vietnam, Swiss photojournalist, Werner Bischof, captured rarely seen slices of life on a train from Saigon to Nha Trang in 1952.

Vietnam
As the Vietnamese property market will likely heat up in the next few years with the construction of new metro lines in Hanoi and Saigon, it may soon be time to hop back on the real estate bandwagon. A new draft decree would make it easier for foreigners to get in on the action, extending ownership periods to 100 years.

Saigon
Hidden away at the end of an alley in Phu Nhuan is the forgotten tomb of Marshal Le Van Duyet’s deputy, Phan Tan Huynh.

Travel
Vietnam has experienced a significant drop in international tourist arrivals for the 11th consecutive month.

Vietnam
'What's a condom?': Unsafe sex puts Vietnamese factory workers at risk [Thanh Nien] From cheers to tears: Alcohol is the leading cause of home violence in Vietnam [Thanh Nien] Vietnam invites Bollywood to attract Indian tourists [Hindustan Times]

Arts & Culture
Saigoneer's staff highlight their favorite articles from the past week.

Music & Arts
Saigoneer, Saigon Artbook, Dia Projects and Alternative Art Area are in the process of producing a handy map of art-related activities and venues in Saigon – from galleries to street art.

Vietnam
A draft regulation submitted by the Vietnam Register (VR) to the Ministry of Transport would require motorbike owners to have their bike’s emissions checked every two years.

Culture
While some Vietnamese cities have begun to move their tangled nests of electricity wires underground, they are still a ubiquitous feature of many urban neighborhoods.
![[Video] Phở Has Never Looked So Beautiful](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/j9nMbfNl.jpg)
Food Culture
This short clip, "Mrs Phở," is the work of Tung Pham, a second year student at Lasalle College of The Arts in Singapore.

Music & Arts
In the context of France-Vietnam Year, the Musée du quai Branly is presenting an installation of Vietnamese propaganda posters exploring the various representations of women in Vietnam from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Music & Arts
Suboi recently returned from a series of successful US shows and wall-to-wall American media coverage . ­We sat down with Saigon’s “Queen of Hip-Hop” to ask about her experiences in the US, whether or not hip-hop can become mass-market in Vietnam and a number of other burning questions.

Food Culture
When On Earth , a Buzzfeed -style travel website, has ranked Saigon among the world’s ideal cities for vegan and vegetarian travelers.

Vietnam
A famous Vietnamese actress may be facing jail time for verbally and physically abusing Hanoi police officers in an incident that occurred in February.

Culture
In a recent piece for The New York Times , Edward Wong warns that many of Hue’s World Heritage sites and perhaps its very soul are slowly deteriorating as a result of development and environmental factors.
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Culture
This video should serve as a friendly reminder that novice drivers should avoid busy streets when trying to up their skills. You probably shouldn’t be driving a fancy Mercedes SUV either...

Vietnam
Uh-oh! Youths taking showers at Ho Chi Minh City pedestrian street fountains [Tuoi Tre] Google Vietnam names first nine finalists for doodle drawing contest [Tuoi Tre] Vietcombank buys $1 bln worth of government bonds: report [Thanh Nien]

Music & Arts
Forming in 2008, with Guitarist Frederico Casagrande, saxophonist Christophe Panzani, and percussionist Tom Poor, Casagrande and Panzani sought to continue a previous partnership in a new band. After releasing their 3rd album this year with French drumming sensation Gautier Garrigue, the group has been extensively travelling the globe impressing crowds and gathering fans along the way.

Tech
According to a recent survey by global bandwidth testing company Ookla, Vietnam's 3G speeds are some of the worst on Earth.
![[Video] Short Film Perfectly Captures Slices of Life in Vietnam](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/UFYlZSal.jpg)
Film & TV
Unlike some of the more pensive Vietnamese travel videos we’ve come across in the past, Oliver Astrologo ’s “Reverie of Vietnam” is a short film composed almost entirely of quick and explosive cuts.