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ĐÀ NẴNG — Businesses in Đà Nẵng will be offered a 50 per cent reduction in fees for COVID tests and given vaccines to boost economic recovery by the end of this year. Secretary of Đà Nẵng City’s Party Committee, Nguyễn Văn Quảng made the commitment at the Đà Nẵng leadership-business dialogue with the participation of domestic and foreign direct investment (FDI) businesses on Friday. Quảng said the city will soon reopen different economic activities and ease social distancing from October, provided that COVID-19 prevention and control measures remain in place. “The city administrations will build economic recovery scenarios for businesses to ready production plans after social distancing orders are lifted,” Quảng said. “We always offer the best solutions in limiting pandemic-related damage for both domestic and foreign businesses in the city,” he said. “Revving up the vaccination programme and supporting businesses in testing and COVID-19 control will be prioritised …

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A cruise liner docks at Tien Sa Port in Da Nang. Tourism expects to resume in the city in the fourth quarter of 2021. VNS Photo Cong Thanh Businesses in Da Nang will be offered a 50 per cent reduction in fees for COVID tests and given vaccines to boost economic recovery by the end of this year. Secretary of Da Nang City’s Party Committee, Nguyen Van Quang made the commitment at the Da Nang leadership-business dialogue with the participation of domestic and foreign direct investment (FDI) businesses on Friday. Quang said the city will soon reopen different economic activities and ease social distancing from October, provided that COVID-19 prevention and control measures remain in place. “The city administrations will build economic recovery scenarios for businesses to ready production plans after social distancing orders are lifted,” Quang said. “We always offer the best solutions in limiting pandemic-related damage for both domestic and foreign businesses in the city,” he …

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Vietnam’s Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh has asked authorized agencies to recognize “vaccine passport” to serve the recovery plans. The adoption of the immunity passport between Vietnam and other countries is “of great significance” and “particularly necessary” in the current situation, the government said on its website today [Sept 26]. Fully vaccinated passengers arrive in Van Don International Airport on Sept 23. Photo: Vietnam Airlines The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in cooperation with the Ministry of Health and other bodies needs to work with relevant agencies in ASEAN member states, the EU, the US, China, Japan, South Korea, and other countries for mutual recognition. A vaccine passport or “immunity” passport called by the World Health Organization (WHO) is a kind of paper to certify the full vaccination of visitors. WHO has outlined considerations regarding this and does not back immunity passports till now. To date, about 130 countries have …

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VIR's 30th Anniversary Tran Tuan Anh On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of Vietnam Investment Review, on behalf of the Party Central Committee’s Economic Commission, I would like to send to all leaders, reporters, editors, and other employees of VIR my warmest congratulations. The 30-year development of VIR is associated with the country’s doi moi journey and international integration. It is a great honour and I am glad to see that VIR has made positive contributions and reflected the diversity, vividness, and achievements of the national renovation, economic reform, and press renewal. Through each issue of VIR’s publications, it is possible to see steps, difficult periods, and developments of the economy, from central planning to a socialist-oriented and market-based economy, with the doors open for integration in general and international economic integration in particular. VIR has been doing a good job in timely conveying the Party’s …

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HCM City to receive 56,555 tonnes of rice from national reserve The General Department of State Reserves under the Ministry of Finance has issued a document on the provision of over 56,555 tonnes of rice from national reserve to Ho Chi Minh City to support pandemic-hit residents. The department has signed contracts with the Phat Tai Company Limited in Dong Thap province, Thuan Minh Import-Export JSC in HCM City and Trung An High-Tech Agriculture JSC in Can Tho city to buy enough rice to supply to HCM City. The HCM City State Reserve Department is tasked to work with local authorities to distribute fee rice to people in need. Earlier, the General Department has given 14,500 tonnes of rice to the city. The distribution was completed on September 9./. Local students win ASEAN Youth Social Journalism Contest 2021 Vietnamese students Nguyen Nhat Vi and Pham Quang Vinh, both of whom are studying at RMIT University, have won third prize at the ASEAN Youth Social …

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88 per cent of Vietnamese households negatively affected by COVID-19 HCM City businesses eager to resume, but regulation, worker availability worries linger 8,537 new COVID-19 cases recorded in Việt Nam on Friday Việt Nam successfully produces Sputnik V vaccine HCM City to shut some COVID field hospitals as patient numbers dwindle amid home treatment 58-year-old ambulance driver Đặng Tri Thông volunteers to take hundreds of COVID-19 patients in HCM City and Quảng Bình Province. — Photo courtesy of Đặng Tri Thông Khánh Dương HCM CITY — In early September, Đặng Tri Thông, a 58-year-old ambulance driver in the central province of Quảng Bình, shared on his Facebook page: “Myself and my son have officially become members of a team in charge of transporting COVID-19 suspected cases and patients. Anyone in need of help can call me.” That is the first task that Thông and his 24-year-old son took on when they returned to their hometown after a month …

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