Thai rescue personnel carry a body bag bearing the recovered body of a passenger from a capsized tourist boat at Chalong pier in Phuket on July 6, 2018. (Photo: AFP/Mohd Rasfan) A boat carrying 89 tourists and 12 crew members capsized in a raging storm before sinking off the popular resort island Phuket. The vessel's final journey ended at the bottom of the Andaman Sea, along with 47 lives trapped inside the cabins – parents, children and elderly travellers, all tourists from China. The capsize of Phoenix PC Diving was one of the worst maritime disasters in Thai history and its consequences have been far-reaching, particularly on the country's tourism sector. Following the incident, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports reported a significant drop in the number of Chinese tourists visiting Thailand – by 12 per cent in August from the same period last year, 15 per cent in September and 19.8 per cent in October. Last month, its minister Weerasak Kowsurat said the slowdown in … [Read more...] about Chinese tourists give Phuket a miss after boat tragedy, even as Thai authorities tighten safety measures
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HoaBinh-pioneering breakthrough
“Giant” of inland construction market After five times of being selected as “National brand”, constructing 77 works at the same time at localities all over the country, being present in four countries, HoaBinh has shown its steady steps in the process of reaching out to the sea of integration. In the country, HoaBinh is the top enterprise in the field of construction. By the end of quarter 2018, HBC has consistently won biddings of many large projects, of which only five big bidding packages have total value of more than VND5 trillion ($221.24 million). HoaBinh has become an important partner of many famous investors such as Sun Group, Empire Group, MIKGroup, Nam Long… Up to now, HoaBinh Construction Group has carried out over 350 projects, both large and small ones, in which there are projects of up to hundreds of thousands of square meters of construction. These are Le Meridien Five-star Hotel, Saigon Center Complex, Tan Son Nhat … [Read more...] about HoaBinh-pioneering breakthrough
Chinese visits to Thailand to fall after deadly boating accident
The accident that killed nearly 50 people is threatening to be a potential blow to the country's vital tourism sector, officials forecast. The Phoenix was carrying 105 people -- mostly Chinese -- when it sank on the way back from a popular snorkeling spot on July 5 off the southern resort island of Phuket. It was among three vessels which ignored a bad weather warning against island day trips. The boat's captain, an engineer and the owner of the company that operates the vessel have been arrested and are being held while authorities conduct an investigation, Phuket police told AFP. Divers and the navy spent more than a week retrieving bodies, some from inside the boat, with the final death toll at 47 Chinese nationals. Tourists from China made up almost a quarter of Thailand's 35 million visitors last year, official statistics show. In a statement provided to AFP, the Ministry of Tourism and Sports revised down its forecasted number of Chinese arrivals for July-December by nearly … [Read more...] about Chinese visits to Thailand to fall after deadly boating accident
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Twenty-seven more communes and wards this year join family medical practice A health staff member takes blood for testing at An Hòa ward health station in Cần Thơ City’s Ninh Kiều District. Source http://soytecantho.vn The Department of Health in the Mekong Delta city of Cần Thơ this year plans to expand a model of family medical practice clinics to 27 more communes and wards. Family medical practice clinics aim to provide comprehensive and continuous health care services to each local individual and family in order to reduce overcrowding of patients at city or central-level hospitals. These clinics are located at health stations in communes and wards. Each commune or ward has one health station. Cần Thơ aims to equip more than 80 per cent of its 85 health stations with these clinics by 2020. According to Dr Bùi Thị Lệ Phi, the department’s head, the city now has 18 commune-based health stations with family … [Read more...] about Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)