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Vietnam is likely to have its first cargo airline soon as the establishment of such a carrier, worth over US$100 million, may be approved next year when the aviation market is projected to recover from the current COVID-19 outbreak.

Ho Chi Minh City-based IPP Air Cargo JSC, whose chairman is well-known entrepreneur Johnathan Hanh Nguyen, submitted an application to the Ministry of Planning and Investment and other relevant agencies in early June for setting up a cargo airline.

The new carrier, the first of its kind in Vietnam, will specialize in domestic and international cargo transport under the management of IPP Air Cargo, which registered its business on March 10 this year.

Regarding the application, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has asked the Ministry of Transport for instructions, since the prime minister last year agreed with the ministry’s proposal that any establishment of new airlines would only be considered upon the aviation market recovery, expected in 2022.

Based on specific directions from the transport ministry, the CAAV will provide the applicant with instructions on necessary procedures for the approval process.

Meanwhile, IPP Air Cargo expects to get a nod for its airline project in the third quarter of 2021 and obtain the air operator certificate later this year, so that its maiden commercial flights can begin operating in the second quarter of 2022.

The proposed firm will have a total investment of VND2.4 trillion ($105 million), of which 30 percent is the equity and the remaining is mobilized capital.

As estimated, IPP Air Cargo will operate five aircraft in its first year of operation, before expanding the fleet to seven and ten in the second and third year, respectively.

The carrier plans to transport about 115,000 metric tons of cargo and earn $71 million in revenue in the first year, and start generating profit in the fourth year of operation.

Vietnam now has no airline firm specializing in cargo transport, so more than 80 percent of the country’s air imports and exports are carried by foreign airlines.

Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, many Vietnamese airlines have used passenger aircraft to transport goods as a way to survive the sharp reduction in passenger numbers.

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Mr. Furusawa Yasuyuki, new General Director of AEON Vietnam

The change of senior personnel of AEON Vietnam this time is part of AEON Group’s Organization Reform Strategy in the fiscal year 2021. Specifically, the group will significantly improve its competitiveness and profitability through three strategies. The first is digital shift, regional shift, and Asia shift. The second is the reformation of its supply chain. The third is the reformation of group management, pursue group synergy, and maximize its corporate value.

Up to now, AEON Group has always appreciated and identified Vietnam as a key market in Asia. Accordingly, AEON will continue to accelerate the opening of RSC (regional shopping center), NSC (neighborhood SC), specialty stores and supermarket to achieve rapid growth. In addition, the group will accelerate the e-commerce segment to meet the increasing need of online consumption trend of customers, especially in the context of Covid-19 pandemic.

In addition, Product research and development (R&D) will also be focused, in order to increase the number of Made-in-Vietnam products, together with imported products only available at AEON to provide our customers with a unique and wide range of products. It is necessary to reform and enhance the supply chain infrastructure as the driven factor of the target achievement.

In parallel, AEON Group will focus on the continuous reformation of group management that facilitates the pursuance of group synergy and maximizes its corporate value.

With above ambitions, AEON Group appointed Furusawa Yasuyuki as the new General Director of AEON Vietnam Co., Ltd. Meanwhile, the predecessor General Director Nishitohge Yasuo returned to Japan for a new assignment in AEON Group.

Furusawa Yasuyuki joined Jusco (now as known as AEON Group) in 1995, having over 26 years of experience in the retail industry in Asia. From 2014-2017, he held the position of the president of Beijing AEON Co., Ltd in China. Before being appointed as General Director of AEON Vietnam Co., Ltd, Furusawa Yasuyuki was the president of My Basket Co., Ltd., a business entity of AEON Group Japan.

My Basket is an urban small supermarket chain brand under AEON Japan, developed in major cities of Japan such as Tokyo and Kanagawa, etc. It mainly sell fresh produce and catering goods for daily use. Under his presidential reign for AEON My Basket, Furusawa Yasuyuki has created the marvelous growth for My Basket through adding 200 more stores only in two years, contributing to its outstanding development to achieve the milestone of 1,000 My Basket stores.

Furusawa Yasuyuki emphasized: “In the coming time, I, together with the entire AEON Vietnam, will continue to make every effort to develop new models of retail business in pursuit of AEON Vietnam’s missions: to enrich Vietnamese people’s lifestyle, to contribute to local community and economic growth of Vietnam.”

Under direct authority of AEON group, AEON Vietnam Co., Ltd. Was officially established in 2011. Currently, AEON Vietnam is operating in five retail business segments in Vietnam, including shopping malls, general merchandise stores and supermarket, specialty store, supermarkets and e-commerce.

Since the opening of the first shopping mall AEON – Tan Phu Celadon in 2014 till June 2021, AEON Vietnam has expanded its business footprints in six provinces and cities nationwide, developed and operated three shopping malls, three general merchandise stores & supermarkets, 29 specialty stores, two supermarkets, AEONEshop e-commerce site; and AEON Regional Distribution Center in Ho Chi Minh City.

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By staff writers- Translated by Huyen Huong

A hospital security guard who had not left his workplace for three months was among three new local infections announced by the Hanoi Center for Disease Control on Monday morning.

L.V.C., 54, hailing from Long Bien District, worked as a security guard at Duc Giang General Hospital in the same district.

C. had stayed at the hospital without returning home for three months.

The man developed a mild fever, coughing, and a sore throat on June 3.

He then purchased and took medicines without a doctor’s prescription, before asking to take a break from work and going home on June 8.

He went back to work on June 12 and was examined by doctors at Duc Giang General Hospital as his symptoms did not improve.

The man was also tested for COVID-19, with his results later coming back positive.

The other two patients confirmed by the Hanoi Center for Disease Control on Monday morning were direct contacts of previously-confirmed cases in Dong Anh and Long Bien Districts.

From April 27 to Monday, Hanoi has recorded 463 local cases of COVID-19 in 13 clusters, becoming the locality with the fourth-highest number of infections in Vietnam, after Bac Giang with 4,137 patients, Bac Ninh with 1,352, and Ho Chi Minh City with 845.

These infections are among the total caseload of 7,523 recorded in 40 of Vietnam’s 63 provinces and cities in this ongoing virus wave — the fourth and the worst since the pathogen first hit the country on January 23, 2020.

The nation has documented an accumulation of 10,730 patients, including 9,093 domestic and 1,637 imported cases ever since.

Recoveries have reached 3,998 while 59 patients have died, mostly with critical underlying medical conditions like cancer and chronic renal failure.

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The VBOX and Karaoke VIP parlors in Tam Ky Town last Saturday were found still receiving guests despite an existing ban on non-essential services, including karaoke parlors, to curb the spread of the ongoing Covid-19 wave, local police said.

Nineteen guests were found at the two parlors, singing karaoke, drinking beer and even using drugs, police added.

The owners of each parlor now face fines of VND15 million for not abiding by the Covid-19 social distancing order, while guests would be fined VND2 million each for similar violations, police said.

Starting May 3, Quang Nam, home to tourist town Hoi An, has suspended all non-essential services like karaoke parlors, bars and dance clubs to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The province has recorded three local Covid-19 cases so far in Vietnam’s latest wave that hit in late April.

Over six weeks into its fourth wave, the most challenging Vietnam has encountered, the country has recorded 7,524 cases in 40 of its 63 cities and provinces.

Bac Giang is leading the case count with 4,137 infections, followed by Bac Ninh with 1,352 and Ho Chi Minh City with 845.