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Arts & Culture
After two extremely successful (and packed) releases of the Saigon Artbook, the team decided to launch the third edition over 2 days at the new exhibition space, Lê Công Kiều Station .
Saigon
In celebration of Reunification Day, a fireworks show will be held at 9:00pm on the Saigon River tomorrow night, according to Tuoi Tre .
![[Slideshow] 13 Beautiful Fields in Vietnam](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/VknRkc6b.jpg)
Culture
Vietnam offers a wide array of natural beauty, leaving photographers with their fingers glued to their camera’s shutter release. While there are plenty of mountains and coastal scenes to photograph but we’re particularly enamored with the country’s verdant rice and tea fields.
![[Video] Vietnamese Grannies Get Down to Techno](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/xBA0DLqb.jpg)
Culture
“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.”― Gloria Steinem
Development
Earlier this week, Tuoi Tre reported that HCMC and the German General Consulate have agreed on a 99-year lease for a prime piece of real estate in the heart of downtown for the low, low price of VND1. No, that's not a typo.
Vietnam
Sugar company fined for polluting environment [VNS] Vietnam cops still tracking Lao fugitive after 'crazy' car chase [Thanh Nien] Vietnam, Laos review border marker planting [Vietnam Plus]
Music & Arts
There is a new area in Saigon, closed off to motorbikes, where artists and creative minds from different disciplines as well as businesses come together. This is the idea sketched out so far behind the still developing 3A Station (Alternative Art Area), located in 3A Ton Duc Thang in District 1.
![[Slideshow] The Rainy Season has Arrived in Hanoi](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/K0cHWanb.jpg)
Vietnam
While here in Saigon we’ve seen a few rainstorms over the past week, our brothers and sisters in Hanoi got their first, damp taste of the rainy season last weekend as the capitol experienced massive floods.
![[Infographic] How Fast is Vietnam’s Internet Compared to Other ASEAN Nations?](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/kP5NMhpb.jpg)
Tech
Yes, we know that Vietnam’s 3G speeds are incredibly low (2G ½?) but how does the country’s internet speed compare to other ASEAN nations? According to a new infographic created by ASEAN DNA , slightly better than average, based on data collected between March and May 2014.
Saigon
Last Saturday, city authorities held a ceremony to mark Ben Thanh Market’s 100th birthday. Although it is one of the city’s oldest buildings, the market itself is significantly older, tracing its roots back to the early 19th century.
![[Slideshow] The Giant Rubber Duck has Arrived in HCMC](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/UZFrspnb.jpg)
Culture
Yesterday, we waddled down to District 7’s Crescent Lake to check out the newly installed giant duck and found quite a scene.
Vietnam
Vietnam’s first cliff railway opens in Da Nang [SGGP] 97 percent of countryside households have access to electricity [SGGP] Another endangered tiger delivers cubs at Vietnam zoo [Thanh Nien]
Culture
Ready to do a little camping? Then make your way over to Saigon Outcast next weekend and enjoy: a bon fire, a BBQ, s'mores, acoustic guitar, a pyjamas party, ghost stories, camp fire songs, games and more.
Culture
Ready to do a little camping? Then make your way over to Saigon Outcast next weekend and enjoy: a bon fire, a BBQ, s'mores, acoustic guitar, a pyjamas party, ghost stories, camp fire songs, games and more.
Saigon
Some people find it boring and unimaginative that all the cities in Vietnam share the same street names. Whether it’s an isolated town touching the Chinese border or a tiny strip of road leading to a deserted beach in Phu Quoc, the streets of Vietnamese cities all crisscross with the same names. Can this be attributed to being boring and having a lack of imagination? Hardly.
Travel
Like Vietnamese, Chinese can yield some interesting results when things are translated literally. With this in mind, the Wall Street Journal Asia recently published a map with literal translations of Beijing’s subway stations. Some are pretty vanilla, but others are absolute gems.
Travel
After getting a huge amount of flak from locals and tourists alike, Hoi An authorities have made amendments to the strict enforcement of $6 entry fee’s to the city’s old town, according to the Saigon Times .
Music & Arts
Over at & of Other Things , an excellent Vietnam-centric arts website, CAMA ’s Eliza Lomas talked with Sean Hocking, owner of Hong Kong’s Saffron Records , who gave her a list of his current favorite, non-mainstream tracks from around Asia, including Cambodia, India and China (sorry, Vietnam).
Tech
With sales of Apple products in Vietnam tripling in the fiscal first half of this year, a rate 5 times faster than India, the tech giant is finally taking notice and recently “talked up” the potential of the country in a quarterly conference call on Wednesday, reports Tuoi Tre .
![[Video] Vietnamese Man Gets Shock of his Life When Plugging in Mobile Phone](https://media.urbanistnetwork.com/saigoneer/article-images/legacy/qGn6clgb.jpg)
Health
Sure, mobile phones may give you brain cancer but the devices pose short term dangers as well. The guy in this video learned this the hard way when he went to plug in his mobile phone and got the shock of his life.
Vietnam
National economy on road to recovery: commission [Vietnam Plus] WB signs agreements to modernise Vietnam’s poorest areas [DTI] Apple's sales boom in Vietnam [Tuoi Tre]
Saigon
We’re gonna go out on a limb and assume none of readers are more than 100 years old. Based on this assumption, we present 20 pictures of Saigon from before you were born.
Music & Arts
Due to high demand, the release party for Saigon Artbook ’s 3rd edition will be held over two days at Lê Công Kiều Station starting this evening. For those unfamiliar with the project, it is a quarterly book launch comprising mainly unseen works by innovative artists living in Saigon and its surrounding areas.
Culture
Vietnam might not have many vending machines but Japan more than makes up for the deficit. Not only are they seemingly everywhere, from Mt. Fuji to train cars, but they serve up basically anything you could think of (and plenty more that you probably couldn’t imagine).
