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World Travel Awards (WTA) has unveiled major awards in the global travel and hospitality industry this year, honouring Vietnam as Asia’s Leading Destination. A cruise ship makes a tour of Ha Long Bay, a World Heritage site in northern Vietnam. Vietnam outperformed other nominees such as China, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, India, the Republic of Korea and Sri Lanka to secure the title. Vietnam has emerged from a tough field to take ‘Asia’s Leading Destination,’ the WTA said in its announcement. The WTA also honoured Vietnam as Asia’s Leading Sustainable Tourism Destination, and the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism as Asia’s Leading Tourist Board 2021. It also named Hoi An as Asia’s Leading Cultural City Destination, Ha Long Bay as Asia’s Leading Tourist Attraction, and Cuc Phuong National Park as Asia’s Leading National Park. Notably, Vietnam Airlines won the award Asia’s Leading Airline for Economic Class, while Vietravel was …

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In a draft plan sent to the Ministry of Transport on Friday for approval, the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam proposed launching pilot flights to carry foreign tourists to some tourist destinations like Phu Quoc, Khanh Hoa and Quang Ninh during the first phase scheduled to start this quarter. Kien Giang, Khanh Hoa, Quang Nam, Da Nang and Quang Ninh, home to a number of famous tourist hotspots, will be allowed to welcome foreign tourists starting November as part of Vietnam's roadmap to gradually resume international tourism. Visitors need to furnish a certificate showing they were fully vaccinated at least 14 days prior to arrival or recovered from Covid. All tourists must show a negative Covid certificate using the PCR method within 72 hours before departure and are required to book a tour package with designated travel agencies. There would be one daily flight, with around 4,000 to 6,000 tourists allowed to visit the country in the first month, with the flight frequency …

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The Vietnam – ASOCIO Smart City Summit 2021 will be held next month by the Vietnam Software Association (VINASA) and the Asian-Oceanian Computing Industry Organisation (ASOCIO). Themed “Smart City,” the event will be held from November 2 – 6 via video conference to discuss latest technology trends in smart city. It is expected to be attended by about 10,000 delegates from Vietnam and overseas. The event provides a platform for experts to share information and practices in developing smart cities and improving living standards of urban citizens through 14 discussions across five topics – Digital Government, Smart Real Estate, Smart Industrial Parks, Products/Solutions for Smart City, and Startup with Smart City. It also features a virtual exhibition of e-Government solutions, services and platforms in multiple areas. The government approved a project for sustainable development of smart cities in Vietnam from 2018 – 2025, with a vision towards 2030, in August 2018. Since then, …

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Thoi Hoa Covid-19 field hospital in the southern province of Binh Duong, the largest of its kind in Vietnam, is scheduled to be shut by the end of this month as the Covid-19 pandemic has been brought under control in the locality. Covid-19 cases discharged from Thoi Hoa Covid-19 field hospital The 37,000-bed hospital currently has only 300 patients. According to the provincial Centre for Disease Control, since late April this year, the province has recorded 226,353 Covid-19 cases, including 224,614 discharged from hospital. At present, over 8,000 Covid-19 cases are being treated at field hospitals in Binh Duong. Thoi Hoa field hospital has to date treated more than 20,000 Covid-19 cases. The Covid-19 pandemic has been contained in the province, so the hospital is expected to be closed by the end of this month. Many local schools will stop serving as quarantine sites. The province has set up 184 mobile medical stations, including 26 located at industrial …

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Electronics components being manufactured at 4P Limited Co in the northern province of Hung Yen. — VNA/VNS Photo Pham Kien Viet Nam’s electronics industry, an increasingly important sector of the country’s economy, continues to grow despite the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT). Amid the pandemic, the sector brought home US$77.58 billion over the past nine months of 2021, statistics from the General Department of Customs showed. Of this, the export of handsets and components contributed $41.02 billion, up 11.5 per cent year-on-year. Among major export markets were China with a turnover of $9.8 billion, up 52 per cent, the US with a value of $7.09 billion, up 1.1 per cent and the EU with $5.56 billion, down 18 per cent. Meanwhile, the export value of electronics, computers and components topped $36.56 billion, surging 13.6 per cent over the same period of last year with $9.3 billion from exports to the US, up 26.5 …

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The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has proposed a four-step plan for the resumption of inbound international flights, which would allow the country to welcome back foreign tourists after months of imposing tight border controls. In a proposal submitted to the Ministry of Transport on Thursday, the CAAV detailed four stages in their scheme to relaunch inbound flight routes to Vietnam. The first phase, slated for the last quarter of 2021, seeks to provide flight bundles with quarantine costs included for overseas Vietnamese citizens, as well as trial inbound flights for foreign visitors. In this phase, Vietnamese air carriers will cooperate with travel agencies to devise inbound flight packages, where passengers will pay for flight tickets, COVID-19 tests, quarantine hotels, and meals. Entrants to Vietnam will be allowed to undergo seven-day quarantine if all passengers on their flight are either fully vaccinated or recovered COVID-19 patients; otherwise, they must …

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Pedestrians pass through a near empty Raffles Place in the central business district of Singapore (Photo: CNN) Singapore (VNA) – Singapore will extend its COVID-19 restrictions for another month to curb the spread of the pandemic and reduce pressure on the health care system , the government has announced. In the last 24 hours, Singapore logged 18 COVID-19 deaths, its highest daily number since the pandemic began, along with 3,862 new cases. In late September, Singapore re-applied its restrictions amid a surge in cases. Under these measures, social gatherings are capped to a maximum of two, and workers are encouraged to stay at home. However, new infections keep rising to reach the highest daily figure of 3,994 on October 19. Hospitals and medical workers are under huge pressure. More than 80 percent of the country’s population of 5.45 million have been vaccinated. Lawrence Wong, co-chair of Singapore's COVID-19 taskforce said that at the current …

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Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam has temporarily recognised vaccination certificates or vaccine passports of 72 countries and territories worldwide that were officially introduced to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to its spokeswoman Le Thi Thu Hang. Speaking at a regular press conference on October 21, Hang said that in the spirit of the Government’s Resolution 128/NQCP dated October 1 on flexibly and safely adapting to and effectively control the COVID-19 pandemic, Vietnam has temporarily recognised vaccination certificates or vaccine passports of 72 countries and territories. These documents will be used in Vietnam and holders of vaccination certificates or vaccine passports will have concentrated quarantine time reduced to only seven days in line with the guidance of the Vietnamese Ministry of Health. These countries and territories include Poland, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the Republic of Korea (RoK), Kazakhstan, …

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Illustrative image (Photo: suara.com) Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesia has set a target to become a centre of the world's halal industry in 2024 given its potential market for halal products in the country. “Indonesia has the potential to become a centre of the world’s halal industry as well as the world’s fashion Mecca. We target that this goal can be achieved by 2024,” state news agency Antara quoted President Joko Widodo as saying at the opening of the online Trade Expo Indonesia (TEI) Digital Edition on October 21. Citing the State of Global Islamic Economic Report in 2021, the President said that Muslims around the globe spend more than 2 trillion USD on various sectors from food, fashion, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals, to recreation or tourism. “Certainly, this is an opportunity that we must take advantage of,” he said. Meanwhile, Trade Minister Muhammad Lutfi said that Indonesia’s export of halal products reached 6 billion USD, ranking 21st in the world. The …

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The retail price of pork at the markets declined by VND50,000 per kilo to VND80,000-120,000 depending on the type of pork. — Photo laodong.vn A sharp reduction in pig prices on the domestic market at present is causing difficulties in restoring the pig production industry after the fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The selling price of live hog is now only VND35,000-36,000 per kilo, causing farmers to lose some VND1.5 million per pig. In addition, now traders buy only 5-10 pigs each time compared to 30-50 pigs in the past, said Nguyen Van Chien, a pig farmer in Binh Duong Province. Chien is still struggling to sell pigs though the price of live hog is very low, his farm has hundreds of pigs that need to be sold, vov.vn reported. The same situation was also reported at other farms and if that continues, the farmers would not have the opportunity to implement repopulation, Chien said. Now, this is also occurring at farms of large livestock companies. Many businesses are …

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