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They mixed aluminum with water and spread it on the cabbage to control bacteria. And finally, they used plastic film to reduce exposure to oxygen. Hiroko Seki, a postdoctoral fellow at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology , compared Styrofoam to cardboard as a means for transporting tuna. She found that cardboard is cheaper during the manufacturing and transit phases.
Plus, it decomposes, so is better for the environment. Researchers are currently working on a prototype of corrugated cardboard that will survive in the water, which could significantly reduce waste in seafood logistics in the future. Gonzales, the researcher who focused on cabbage , says there are other benefits to reducing waste: self-sufficiency, food security — even higher earnings.
Advocates say that on the consumer level, there are everyday things people can also do to help reduce food waste: don't overspend at the grocery store; and don't obsess too much about being sure your apples or carrots look like they do in the movies. The Australian and his wife became the first foreigners to buy real estate in Vietnam under a new property law that took effect over the summer.
Policymakers pushed the law as a way to attract foreigners and increase demand in the property market. But that doesn't mean that transactions are simple.
It's been several months since foreigners could officially take advantage of the law, but as Conolly describes it buyers are still confused about the details of contracts, whether titles will really get transferred to them, and the willingness among banks to approve mortgages. If challenges and frustrations concern you, then to an extent you're in the wrong place. That's just a reality. Many foreigners are taking Conolly's approach — working through the difficulty of investing in Vietnam because they think it'll pay off eventually.
One of the biggest difficulties foreigners complain about is that Vietnam doesn't have guidelines for how to navigate the new property law. Chau Ta, legal counsel at SC Capital, which invests in real estate, says that creates confusion when buyers submit paperwork to local governments.
David Lim, a property attorney with ZICOlaw, believes these difficulties ultimately will be sorted out, because foreigners have long been interested in Vietnam's real estate market. And also at the same time, I think we're just coming out of the financial crisis. So I think with the loosening of the law and the opening of the market, you'll start to see more transactions. Foreigners are buying property for personal use, but also as large-scale investments.
That's because Vietnam looks like a relatively stable place to invest compared with Thailand and Myanmar , which are undergoing political changes, and the currency volatility in Malaysia and Indonesia.
No respect, not even for legends. Ranking a mediocre No. Is this really the one-and-only Continental? The one that Vietnam War veterans recall with a nostalgic sigh? Whereas in the northern capital of Hanoi the Hotel Metropole fully plays on sentimentality — hosting visits to the underground bunker where anti-Vietnam war advocates such as Joan Baez or Jane Fonda came to take shelter — the Continental's website doesn't even mention the famous guests from its past.
Nothing about Graham Greene and room , where the writer stayed for months to write The Quiet American , whose story takes place right before the Dien Bien Phu defeat. Managed by the government tourism office, the hotel barely explains that "the Ho Chi Minh City people's committee" listed it as an historic monument. Of course, there are still a few hard-liners who praise the Continental's "old-fashioned charm.
We set off for a tour of the city on her Honda Dream motorcycle. She proudly shows me the new McDonald's and the Bitexco Financial Tower, with its multiplex cinemas, fast-food restaurants and escalators, the place where the city's youth gather.
As for hotels, she swears only by the Sofitel, the Nikko and the Intercontinental, tall towers with modern elevators, countless floors and luminous halls. The dark entrance of the Continental with its ancient atmosphere disheartens my aunt. That's the difference between Hanoi the poetic and the pragmatic of the former Saigon.
Here, in the capital of the south, bulldozers have no mercy. Buildings are destroyed, and towers are built. Countless detours were required to get to Dong Khoi Street, which has changed names many times. During the Vietnam War, it was a gathering place for reporters, a kind of annex of the Continental. But the receptionist of the Continental today, a year-old who speaks perfect English, had never heard of it.
If you're looking for coffee, you might want to go to Starbuck's instead. The Continental in the early s. Photo: John Binfield. I couldn't convince my aunt to join me for a drink at the Continental. For her, it seems as grotesque as seeing Western tourists with backpacks riding bikes with cone-shaped hats to blend in.
Like in every city center hotel, the Continental's prices are indeed ridiculously high 3 euros for a Coke. The Caravelle can at least brag about its rooftop terraces with views of the city — during the war, reporters claimed it was the only place that allowed them to avoid the bombs — but the Continental only has the activity on Dong Khoi street to offer.
On the terrace, only tourists watch other tourists walk by. There is not a single Vietnamese. They prefer by far the Bitexco tower, where, in a Singapore-style food court, you can eat noodles, soup, sushi or a durian milkshake at any time of the day. Oh, the old Continental! The hotel was built in , just opposite the most prestigious square of the city, where the brand new opera stood, based on the Opera in Paris.
It was the beginning of the colonization. In , the Hotel Continental was bought by the Duke of Montpensier. Reaching Annam was still an adventure, a journey only available to a small elite — "aristocrat tourism," as the colonial annals call it. All these high-class people who'd set out for adventures in the jungle, to hunt buffalos and the like.
In , the hotel was bought by Corsican Ange Frasseto. The Corsicans? In the small troop of colonists who invested in the distant Indochina, the islanders formed a country within the country. Frasseto ultimately went bankrupt. Another Corsican , Mathieu Franchini, took over the lease for next to nothing, with plans to turn it into "Asia's first palace. The Continental became "the place to be. In the s. Photo: Rue des Archives. Bodard, who covered the war and stayed at the hotel for several weeks, writes.
In fact, it may be moldy and outdated with its aftertaste of neglected colonialism, but it's very possibly the most expensive hotel in the world. When he died in , his son Philippe decided to take over the hotel. At the Continental during the Vietnam War, he must have seen many journalists.
Certain publications even established their headquarters there. Time magazine on the first floor, Newsweek on the second. I remember this local reporter who worked both with the French and the Americans. For the American journalists, he had a speech ready about the French, those cruel colonizers. For the French journalists, he criticized imperialist America.
I got hold of him. He smiled to me and said, "You see, I don't have a choice. I tell them what they want to hear. Now, in front of Continental room , where the Time offices were established, there's a bronze plaque in honor of the Vietnamese spy. Philippe Franchini remembers the very last years, before the fall. There were only the French reporters left, playing poker in the rooms of the Continental. Saigon sensed that it was in its very last hours. I left a few days before April 30," Philippe Franchini says.
The son, like his father, left the country they loved so much. Philippe Franchini now lives in France. But he says part of him stayed in Vietnam, on the terrace of the Continental.
This trained historian, photographer and video maker, writes it tactfully in his book, Continental Saigon : "Commercially speaking, the Continental was just a hotel," he writes. It has always singularly attracted the dreamers and the ambitious, resisting every political and financial crisis without anybody understanding why. The Continental has survived centuries and the thunder of war. Now, all that's left to overcome is the rankings and petty comments of TripAdvisor.
As our cities become increasingly high-tech and crowded, efforts to create denser housing and to flood cities with sensors and smart technology often clash with historical preservation.
Chinese cities are notorious for their eagerness to raze historic neighborhoods and to replace them with high-rises, often at the expense of both livability and tourism. In Europe, city planners have generally worked to preserve historic city centers and other monuments, but as populations grow, even European cities won't escape the pressure to alter their landscapes to accommodate more people. As our cities are stuffed ever fuller with geolocation technology, some cities are developing even more sophisticated ways to gather location-related data, Journal du Net reports French.
In Stockholm, for example, taxis are equipped with sensors that collect real-time data about how long it takes to get from one point to another. The data is also used to better understand how to manage traffic during rush hour. Puebla is inaugurating its model for sustainability in with a focus on social programs, in contrast to places such as Madrid and Barcelona.
Instead of smart lighting systems, Puebla has built three new hospitals and remodeled schools in the past four years, both contributing to a better standard of living for residents. This is an excerpt of our Smart Cities newsletter. To receive the full version each week, go to VIP signup here. All the mopeds take off at the light, tooting their horns at once, and in the twilight we leave behind Ho Chi Minh City's tourist district, with its French-colonial buildings, town hall and theater.
We plunge instead into the nightly bustle of the city formerly known as Saigon. Nguyen Tien is a confident driver and tour guide. No sooner has she uttered these words, we smell the medical, slightly musty herbs and roots of traditional medicine. The camera in the driver's helmet is capturing the scenes around us. Too bad it can't capture scents too. Of course, Ho Chi Minh City has a rich nightlife, where gourmet restaurants, styled establishments and airy " sky bars " that present the Vietnamese metropolis from a bird's eye view abound.
But anybody out with Nguyen is treated to another city perspective entirely: from the ground up, outside the comfortable air-conditioned interiors and straight into the chaos of the night markets via moped. Photo: Sam Sherratt. Moped guides such as Nguyen come to the hotel door, and are easily recognizable in their long white outfit of pants with a tight-fitting, side-slit tunic, and their little candy-colored mopeds.
After sundown, Saigoners meet in thousands of cookshops and open-air locales. But first, we need to make the obligatory round through the district. Particularly on Fridays and Saturdays because, since the s, this is when there are aimless show races between two-wheelers with zigzag maneuvers and constant horn blowing.
Now, along with a hundred other Honda drivers, Nguyen drives straight into the crossing. Miraculously, a route opens, and we reach the Dong Ba soup kitchen in the first district. It specializes in only one dish: Bun Bo Hue , from the imperial city Hue in the country's center. In the steaming soup bowl are long noodles, strips of beef and onions. Using chop sticks, we mix it with soy bean sprouts, strips of banana flower and a spinach-like green called morning glory, along with a bit of chili or fish sauce.
Photo: Charles Haynes. While the guests slurp the delight, another guide, Tai Dang, talks about Vietnamese cuisine , showing mouth-watering dishes on his iPad. He uses the opportunity to introduce some of the more gruesome specialties, at one point showing a cute little dog.
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