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The Saigon Railway Transport Joint Stock Company will offer 3,500 more train tickets to meet the strong travel demand during Tet holidays. The additional tickets will be for the routes, including HCMC-Quy Nhon, HCMC-Hanoi on January 11-12, 2023 and HCMC- Quang Ngai on January 13, 2023. The company continues to offer special promotional programs for people under the preferential treatment policy, including Vietnamese heroic mothers, war veterans, wounded soldiers, disabled people, the elderly, children, members of trade unions, and passengers with membership cards; and provide a five- percent discount for passengers who buy return tickets and a discount of 20 percent to students. Some 65,000 seats are available, including 17,000 for trips from HCMC to Hanoi before Tet, mainly to train stations on this line consisting of Phan Thiet, Nha Trang; Quang Ngai before January 15; Tuy Hoa on January 12,13,20,21. Meanwhile, the trains from Hanoi to HCMC still have more than 48,000 … [Read more...] about Additional 3,500 train tickets to be offered for Tet holiday

During a working session with PT General Secretary Alberto Anaya Gutiérrez in Hanoi on November 30, Trang stressed that the PT leader's visit to and working session with VNA showed the close and profound sentiments between VNA and PT. She thanked PT for always supporting VNA’s resident correspondents to help the agency fulfill its task of reporting the Mexican situation to leaders of the Party and State, and people of Vietnam. As an official news agency of Vietnam, VNA pledged to make active contributions to the relations between the two nations in the coming time, Trang said. Gutiérrez, for his part, expressed his delight to visit and work with Vietnam and VNA again after three years of disruption due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic. He said that with modern technologies and techniques, VNA has well accomplished its task of fully and promptly providing information about Vietnam for foreign friends as well as news for Vietnamese people and leaders at all levels, … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency, Mexican Labor Party boost cooperative ties

Plastic pollution has increased in recent years around Ho Chi Minh City's Can Gio district and put pressure on Can Gio Mangrove Biosphere Reserve, the first world biosphere reserve in Vietnam, recognised by UNESCO in 2000. A large amount of waste from the sea has flowed into the Long Tau and Soai Rap river systems, and domestic waste continues to increase. To create a circular model for plastic recycling by bringing together consumers, waste pickers, recyclers, and local authorities, the project sets out to provide feedback for national policy adaptation. Representatives from GreenHub, Can Gio People’s Committee, the Coca-Cola Foundation, and others at the project's launch ceremony The project has been implemented with three main components. The first is to assess local plastic waste, the second is to design a circular economy solution and build the capacity for stakeholders to implement the model, and the third will work to raise public awareness and push for … [Read more...] about Coca-Cola Foundation funds plastic waste management project