Fake and imitation goods are openly sold in many places in Ho Chi Minh City, with their sellers making huge profits. Market management officials in Ho Chi Minh City destroy fake helmets. - VNA/VNS Photo Manh Linh Shops on Pham Van Chieu Street in Go Vap District and on Truong Chinh Street in Tan Binh District, for instance, sell watches and sunglasses ostensibly made by brands like Chanel, Hermes, Gucci, Dior, Rolex, and Omega for VND200,000 to VND300,000 each. They even issue warranty cards to customers. But the shop owners freely admit that the goods are from Guangzou in China and brought into Vietnam over the northern land border. Nguyen Minh Tan, the owner of a shop selling sunglasses sellers, said he could earn bigger profits by flying to Guangzou and buying directly from their Chinese manufacturers at much lower prices. According to the Steering Board for Combating Smuggling, Fraudulent Trading and Counterfeit Goods, this year authorities have discovered over 80,000 … [Read more...] about Fake goods rampant in Ho Chi Minh City
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Three fined for letting passenger board wrong flight in Ho Chi Minh City
Three employees have been fined for letting a foreign passenger board the wrong flight at a major airport in Ho Chi Minh City this month. The chief steward of flight VN651, operated by national carrier Vietnam Airlines, and two staff members of the Vietnam Airport Ground Services Company (VIAGS) have been fined VND4 million (US$176) each for their error, the Civil Aviation Authority confirmed on Tuesday. Flight VN651 was scheduled to leave Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City for Singapore at 9:10 am on February 20. The VIAGS was in charge of performing passenger checks at the departure gates of Vietnam Airlines’ flights. Due to their carelessness, a foreign passenger, who was supposed to travel to Yangon, Myanmar that morning, was allowed to get on the aircraft of flight VN651. The foreign passenger exits the wrong plane before it took off at Tan Son Nhat International Airport on February 20, 2018. Photo: Tuoi Tre The error was discovered just a … [Read more...] about Three fined for letting passenger board wrong flight in Ho Chi Minh City
Human remains, artifacts found at airport excavation in Ho Chi Minh City
Multiple artifacts and fragments of human bone have been found during an ongoing excavation at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, where a possible mass grave site is said to contain the remains of hundreds of Vietnamese soldiers killed during wartime. The first signs of human remains were found on Monday, four days after the first sod was turned at the southern airport in search of the mass grave. Artifacts such as shirts, backpacks, parachute fabric, belts and leather wallets were discovered at around noon at the excavation site to the west of the airport, according to Major General Tran Huu Tai, deputy political commissar of Vietnam’s 7th Military Region. Shortly after discovering the artifacts, members of the search team also found bone fragments suspected to belong to Vietnamese revolutionary soldiers who were killed during the Tet Offensive of 1968. The Tet Offensive was a military … [Read more...] about Human remains, artifacts found at airport excavation in Ho Chi Minh City
Delivery man ‘takes shortcut’ through airport apron in Ho Chi Minh City
After delivering paint to a military unit at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, a courier decided to take a shortcut through the airport's restricted zone on his way out, local newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong reported. After delivering paint to a military unit at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday, a courier decided to take a shortcut through the airport's restricted zone on his way out, local newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong reported. Footage of the renegade delivery man was posted to Facebook on Thursday, but has since been removed by the uploader. Local newspaper Nguoi Lao Dong confirmed from an unnamed source that the incident did in fact occur, asserting that authorities were considering it a serious breach of aviation safety regulations. According to the source, the man had been hired by a military unit stationed inside the airport to deliver paint for a renovation project. The shipper, driving a motorbike, had been escorted … [Read more...] about Delivery man ‘takes shortcut’ through airport apron in Ho Chi Minh City
Taxi scams in Ho Chi Minh City, P1: The long haul
In this series, Tuoi Tre investigative journalists probed both illegal and legal (licensed) taxis in Ho Chi Minh City and their scams to rip off tourists, especially foreign ones, by taking longer routes, using a secret electronic device to inflate meter rates, and other tricks. ‘Ripoff taxis’ in Ho Chi Minh City include both licensed and unlicensed cabs. … [Read more...] about Taxi scams in Ho Chi Minh City, P1: The long haul