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Grand Vietnam parade 50 years after the fall of Saigon
AFP, Published on 30/04/2025
» HO CHI MINH CITY — Vietnam mounted its biggest-ever celebration of the fall of Saigon on its 50th anniversary Wednesday, including Chinese troops for the first time after Xi Jinping visited to portray Beijing as a more reliable partner than Washington.
Grand Vietnam parade 50 years after the fall of Saigon
AFP, Published on 30/04/2025
» HO CHI MINH CITY - Vietnam is set to hold its biggest celebration of the fall of Saigon on its 50th anniversary Wednesday, including Chinese troops for the first time after Xi Jinping visited to portray Beijing as a more reliable partner than Washington.
Vietnam: Fifty years since the Fall of Saigon
Oped, Published on 30/04/2025
» Fifty years ago, on April 30, 1975, North Vietnamese military units surged into Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, forcibly reuniting the country, thus ending 20 years of conflict.
RBSO presents an ABBA extravaganza
Life, Published on 16/04/2025
» To mark the auspicious occasion of HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's birthday on April 2, the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra presents "ABBA The Symphonic Celebration", at the Main Hall of Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, on April 26 at 7.30pm and April 27 at 2pm.
Young stars shine at musical gala
Life, Published on 08/04/2025
» Since its foundation in 2010, the Bangkok Charity Orchestra (BCO) has raised over 25 million baht for good causes in Thailand. Recently, at the Aksra Theatre (King Power Rangnam), conductor and BCO founder Chulayuth Lochotinan guided his 80-piece orchestra with authority and style through an impressive musical gala.
A celebration of India
Life, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 04/04/2025
» It took India's first tasting-menu, fine-dining restaurant some seven to eight years to become a household name in the city of dreams.
Paradise lost
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/04/2025
» In Grand Tour, Miguel Gomes' beguiling travelogue set in 1917, a British diplomat in Burma journeys across Southeast Asia, hopping from country to country, to avoid an encounter with his fiancée. Edward (Gonçalo Waddington) is a colonial officer who, struck by an inexplicable premonition or a case of cold feet, decides to flee Mandalay just before his sweetheart Molly (Crista Alfaiate) is due to arrive. He boards a ship to Singapore, then a train to Bangkok -- it derails on the way, but still makes it -- and onwards to Saigon, Manila, Osaka and Chongqing. Molly, pursuing him, would repeat a more or less similar route.
Vietnam's tourism star is on the rise
News, Published on 28/03/2025
» Thailand may be fully in the spotlight, where Southeast Asian tourism is concerned. Its starring role in Season 3 of The White Lotus has supercharged vacationers' (already high) interest.
Vietnam’s tourism growth leads Asean
Published on 25/03/2025
» Thailand may be fully in the spotlight where Southeast Asian tourism is concerned. Its starring role in Season 3 of the hit TV show “The White Lotus” has supercharged vacationers’ already high interest.
Vietnam-based fund seeks to develop $1.5 billion data centre hub
Bloomberg News, Published on 04/03/2025
» HANOI — Saigon Asset Management seeks to develop a data centre hub in southern Vietnam with an estimated investment of as much as US$1.5 billion, it said in a release.