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The move was made after the provincial People’s Committee asked the Ministry of Transport to allow international flights to operate out of the Phu Cat airport to cope with the growing number of tourists. Domestic carriers Vietnam Airlines, Vietjet Air and Bamboo Airways have a plan to open international flights to serve tourists from Quy Nhon to Thailand, Japan, the Republic of Korea and China in 2019. Ho Quoc Dung, Chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, said tourism development was a priority for the local economy. To promote tourism development, the province had implemented tourism promotion activities, he said. In 2017, Binh Dinh welcomed 3.7 million tourists, up 15.6 percent over 2016, and 3.4 million tourists in the first nine months of this year. The Vietnam Airlines Corporation (ACV) has completed infrastructure at the airport including a parking lot and domestic terminal to meet the demands of domestic and international passengers. The ACV is also … [Read more...] about International flights to operate from Phu Cat airport

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - December 11, 2019 -Stamford American International School - Sleeping Out in Solidarity. To raise awareness of homelessness and the refugee predicament worldwide, a pioneering group comprising of 16 Grade 11 and 12 students as well as 4 teachers took part in their first ever Sleep Out on school premises as part of The World's Big Sleep Out. World's Big Sleep Out at Stamford American International School Singapore The World's Big Sleep Out is now an annual global event to help raise awareness and funds to help the world's homeless and displaced. The Sleep Out was held across 52 cities, with over 50,000 people taking part. Even celebrities such as Will Smith and Dame Helen Mirren read bedtime stories to participants who braved the winter weather to sleep on the street in New York and London respectively. The Stamford students participated as part of the Creativity, Activity and Service Program (CAS). CAS is one of the three essential elements … [Read more...] about Stamford American International School Supports The World’s Big Sleep Out

Vietnam Airlines, low-cost carrier VietJet and recently established Bamboo Airways are preparing to operate non-stop flights, reducing travel time by almost eight hours. Flights now take 20.5 hours to fly from Ho Chi Minh City to San Francisco via South Korea's Incheon International Airport, while the planned direct service to major cities along the U.S. West Coast would take only around 13 hours. In February the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted a Category 1 rating to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) under its International Aviation Safety Assessment program, which means the latter meets safety standards to operate flights to the U.S. In February two of Vietnam’s low-cost carriers inked deals worth a total of $21 billion with U.S. corporations when President Donald Trump visited Hanoi for his second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Budget airline VietJet struck a deal with U.S. aircraft manufacturer Boeing to buy 100 new … [Read more...] about Vietnam carriers could launch direct flights to US as early as this year

Two U.S. officials who asked not be named told Reuters that the permission should be issued in the coming weeks.  Dinh Viet Thang, head of the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV), said that the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) completed safety assessments in December and was supposed to provide the results this month. "But as the U.S. government was closed, we couldn’t receive the results. We expect to have it soon," he told VnExpress International. Local airlines including state-owned Vietnam Airlines, budget airline Vietjet and new private airline Bamboo Airways have already expressed interest in opening direct flights between Vietnam and the U.S. The direct route is expected to cater to the large demand for travel between both countries.  Passengers travelling between Vietnam and the U.S. now have to transit through different countries and territories like China, Hong Kong and Japan. Vietnam has never held an FAA rating, unlike Thailand, which once … [Read more...] about US set to green-light direct flights from Vietnam

Vietnamese Trade Counsellor to Algeria Hoang Duc Nhuan (right) works with an Algerian business operating in the area of aquaculture feed processing. — VNA/VNS Photo ​ Vietnamese Trade Counsellor in Algeria Hoang Duc Nhuan attended the 8th International Exhibition of Fishing and Aquaculture (SIPA 2019), seeking to promote trade and investment with Algeria. The SIPA 2019 was launched on Wednesday in the presence of Algerian Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fishing Cherif Omari and will run through Saturday. The biennial event, held since 2013, provides a platform for Algerian and foreign businesses to meet and explore opportunities for trade and investment in fisheries and aquaculture. This year’s event, themed “Fisheries and Aquaculture, driving forces towards sustainable economic development in Algeria,” features about 100 booths run by domestic and international exhibitors in fishing, aquaculture, processing, packaging, fish feed, … [Read more...] about Viet Nam, Algeria seek to promote trade, investment at SIPA 2019