WAM Executive Director Mohamed Jalal Alrayssi grants an interview to VNA reporters on the sidelines of the 44th Executive Board Meeting of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Vietnam News Agency (VNA) and the Emirates News Agency (WAM) of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to establish professional cooperative relations, aiming to provide the public in their respective countries with information on the political, social, economic and cultural life in the other country. This content was underlined in a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral cooperation signed by VNA Director General Nguyen Duc Loi and WAM Executive Director Mohamed Jalal Alrayssi in Hanoi on April 19 within the framework of the 44th Executive Board Meeting of the Organisation of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) hosted by the VNA. According to the MoU, the two sides agreed to exchange English news, photos, and video news on a daily basis, which … [Read more...] about Vietnam News Agency, Emirates News Agency enter professional cooperation
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Vietnam to spend more money on tourism promotion
VietNamNet Bridge - The Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT), together with travel firms and hotels, will run two large-scale marketing campaigns in four Chinese and five European cities in April and June. Vietnam is spending more money on tourism promotion The tourism sector will have a large budget of VND400-500 billion to carry out marketing activities. The fund’s capital will be sourced from the state budget (in the first three years of operation, VND100 billion a year), 10 percent of revenue from visa granting fees, and 5 percent of revenue of the state’s collections from sightseeing sites and other sources. In late 2017, a group of large travel firms came to an agreement on contributing tens of billions of dong to promote Vietnam’s tourism at the two largest tourism fairs – ITB Berlin and World Travel Market in the UK. The money will also be spent to set up a website in English at http://vietnamtourism.vn/. RELATED … [Read more...] about Vietnam to spend more money on tourism promotion
Social News 5/4 (Hourly Updated)
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)
Vietnam ride-hailing firms gear up to compete with Grab
With Uber bowing out and Grab consolidating the market, domestic transport enterprises could invest in expanding their market share, giving consumers more options. Photo: zing.vn) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - After Grab’s takeover of Uber on March 26, some Vietnamese transport businesses are taking advantage of an opportunity to invest in the lucrative ride-hailing market. Pham Van Dung, head of TaxiGo application development, told the online newspaper dealstreetasia that Grab’s acquisition of Uber’s entire business in Southeast Asia is creating opportunities for other local businesses. “Customers always want to have different options,” he said. “The acquisition of Uber will bring us as well as the other parties an opportunity to participate more deeply in the market.” Tran Thanh Nam, the founder of Vivu Technology Development JSC, told the English-language Vietnam News that Uber’s decision to withdraw from Southeast Asia prompted businesses to … [Read more...] about Vietnam ride-hailing firms gear up to compete with Grab
An American woman’s spiritual bond with Vietnam
Carolyn is wearing a Vietnamese conical hat. A blue stamp In her stamp collection, Carolyn is particularly interested in a small Vietnamese stamp that depicts a blue dragon on a red background. At 12 years old, the little girl asked her father “Where in the world is Vietnam?” She was too young to figure out the location of the country but for some unknown reason, Carolyn had “a good feeling about Vietnam”. In 1967 when she was a third-year student at the State University of New York, Carolyn was allowed to choose to study in any country she wanted over the course of the next two years. She chose France and it was the first opportunity for her to learn more about Vietnam. “I thought Vietnamese students were the best. My French teachers also said the same. Any educated American knows that Vietnamese students are very smart. It is one of the things, other than the war, that Americans know about Vietnam.” At that time, America was in the middle of the … [Read more...] about An American woman’s spiritual bond with Vietnam