I made the visit to the new Lotte Mart in Saigon near Phu My Hung. It was a long trip there from the Phu Nhuan District. All I got to say is that I was a bit disappointed about it. All the hoopla was just that. Big C, near my house, was just as good as the new Lotte Mart in my opinion. For electronics, just go to Nguyen Kiem. My friends and I arrived to Lotte Mart at … [Read more...] about Saigon Lotte Mart – A Big Disappointment
Archives for Sunday, December 28, 2008
Vietnamese teacher ‘whistle blower’ suffers for fighting graft
I like reading stories like this one in Vietnam. It was published in the Western media today but I saw it on the Vietnamese news sites about a month ago. Do Viet Khoa is a school teacher in northern Vietnam who blew the whistle on the corruption at his school. He was praised as a hero by government officials but in his own town, he is seen as a pariah. In Vietnam, the … [Read more...] about Vietnamese teacher ‘whistle blower’ suffers for fighting graft