Masena Bokang Jon, 32, from the Kingdom of Lesotho near South Africa, boarded a Turkish Airlines flight to Istanbul at the Tan Son Nhat International Airport on Tuesday night. Airport authorities said Thursday he would take another flight from Istanbul to his homeland. After confirming his personal status, immigration officers in Vietnam completed legal procedures for him to leave for home, concerned that his state of health required good care from his family. Earlier reports had said that Jon stayed in the detention room at Tan Son Nhat for two months following his deportation from Japan for using a fake passport. He had entered Vietnam with a valid visa, arriving in Ho Chi Minh City on a Vietnam Airlines flight from the Indonesian capital of Jakarta on August 18. Two weeks later, he boarded an AirAsia flight to Japan, transiting via Thailand’s Bangkok. However, Japanese immigration authorities denied him entry after discovering he was using a fake passport. The authorities … [Read more...] about Vietnam ends ‘The Terminal’ drama, sends Lesotho man home
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Vietnam welcomes over 11.6 million foreign visitors in first nine months
Asian tourists went up 27.2%, followed by a 19.5% increase in visitors from African countries, while the number of European and American tourists rose by 9.8% and 12.5% respectively. In September, the Vietnam National Administration of Tourism (VNAT) held many tourism promotion activities in a number of markets to attract more foreign visitors. Notably, events were held for the first time in Canada on the 45th anniversary of diplomatic ties, during which Vietnam’s new policies, destinations, products and services were introduced to potential travellers. Currently Vietnam is issuing electronic visas to citizens from 46 countries, including Canada, which saw more than 33 million people travel abroad in 2017, ranking 7th in the world in terms of outbound tourism. In Asia, the Philippines, Vietnam and Japan are the fastest growing markets for Canadian visitors, in addition to China. Besides Canada, the VNAT collaborated with the US Travel Association and the Hanoi Investment, Trade … [Read more...] about Vietnam welcomes over 11.6 million foreign visitors in first nine months
Visa appoints new country manager
Visa appoints new country manager Le Hoang By Le Hoang in HCMC Visa has appointed Sean Preston to the position of country manager for its operations in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Based in HCMC, Preston is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Visa’s business in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Having been with Visa since 2009, Preston was previously country manager for New Zealand for three years, followed by the post of vice president for Southeast Asia, based out of Singapore. He has a diverse international career covering credit card portfolio development and management, loyalty, marketing, sales, operations, project management, and vendor management. Prior to his appointment at Visa, he was national manager for cards business at ASB Bank Limited in Auckland — a role he held since 2003. For the seven years prior to that he was with Citigroup in a variety of roles that saw him based in Sydney, Singapore, and finally New York, where he was Vice President of Operations … [Read more...] about Visa appoints new country manager
No influx of foreigners to buy houses in Vietnam
VietNamNet Bridge – The local property market is awaiting potential foreign purchasers, following the Ministry of Construction’s proposal to loosen regulations for foreigners to buy houses in Vietnam. The market after five years under a pilot program to sell houses to foreigner has seen only some 120 houses sold to them, compared to a huge number of around 80,000 foreigners living and working in the country. The Saigon Times Daily talked to Stephen Wyatt, who has just been appointed as country director for Vietnam at the global real estate consultancy firm Jones Lang LaSalle, over the issue. Excerpts: The Ministry of Construction has just put forward an idea allowing any foreigner who has a visa valid for three months to buy a house in Vietnam. What do you think about the initiative? - Stephen Wyatt: As the above figures suggest, the pilot program that allows foreign purchasers to buy residential property in Vietnam has received a lukewarm response. This can be … [Read more...] about No influx of foreigners to buy houses in Vietnam
Vietnam-US economic cooperation
Hanoi Times - Within the first decade after the 1975 end of the war, Vietnam’s economy faced stagnation, with inflation hitting 700 percent in 1986 and a serious shortage of funds for investment. In that year, the Communist Party in its Sixth Congress approved a broad reform package, "Doi Moi" (or Renovation), that introduced market reforms and dramatically improved Vietnam’s business climate. The country started shifting its central-planning economy based on the Soviet style toward a market-oriented mechanism.The country issued the law on foreign investment in Vietnam in 1987, which reaffirmed the market opening policy that provided a higher legal framework to help the country attract foreign investment.Over the past two decades ending in 2007, Vietnam has attracted $98 billion of foreign investment, of which operational projects totaled $83 billion. Foreign investment projects had yet to pick during the first three years of 1988-1990 since the law came into … [Read more...] about Vietnam-US economic cooperation