Four people in a family were killed in a house fire in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday. Four people in a family were killed in a house fire in Ho Chi Minh City on Sunday. A house in Tan Tao Ward, Binh Tan District caught fire about 30 minutes past midnight, claiming the lives of four family members as they were asleep. The victims were then identified as Nguyen Xuan Trang, 26, her twin children, five-year-old Huynh Tuong Vy and Huynh Tuong Van, and Nguyen Xuan Tri, Trang’s 23-year-old brother. Firefighting police dispatched 10 specialized fire trucks and nearly 70 officers to put out the fire and rescue the people inside. However, the inferno quickly spread out of control and devoured the entire building after a short period of time. As soon as the blaze was extinguished, firefighters discovered the bodies of the deceased as they were lying next to each other on the mezzanine. Three motorbikes, about 200 plywood sheets, and other properties were also burned down. According … [Read more...]
HCM City considers relocation of markets to ease traffic congestion – Society – Vietnam News Politics, Business, Economy, Society, Life, Sports
Viet Nam News HCM CITY - HCM City authorities plan to relocate some of the city's wholesale and retail markets to ease traffic congestion and ensure safety for residents. Many longstanding, traditional markets still exist in urban areas, including wholesale flower markets Hồ Thị Kỷ in District 10 and Đầm Sen in District 11, and the wholesale dried-fish market in District 6. Trần Thúy Liên, director of Bình Điền Wholesale Market Management and Trade Company, said that it was unfair to continue to maintain wholesale markets in the inner city when other wholesale markets had relocated to outlying districts. Liên, speaking at a meeting on Monday, said that she had asked the city government to step up relocation of inner-city wholesale markets to Bình Điền Wholesale Market in District 8. The management board of Bình Điền also asked the city to strictly handle illegal businesses that encroach upon Nguyễn Văn Linh Boulevard's pavements and entranceway leading to the wholesale market. … [Read more...]
City calls for Korean investors
City calls for Korean investors Uyen Vien By Uyen Vien - The Saigon Time Daily HCMC - There are a number of business fields in HCMC where South Korean companies from Busan City can invest, HCMC vice chairman Tat Thanh Cang said at a meeting with Busan vice mayor Kim Jong-hae last week. Busan investors can explore opportunities in supporting industries, public transportation, biotechnology, high-technology healthcare, metro development and other fields where the Korean city is strong. Cang said the two cities have posted achievements in economic, cultural, voluntary healthcare and sport cooperation in the past 20 years of their relations. Kim expected both cities will organize many more investment, trade and tourism programs in the upcoming time. … [Read more...]
U.S.-backed Syria force closes in on IS-held city; slow Iraq advance causes rift
U.S.-backed Syrian fighters have surrounded the Islamic State-held city of Manbij from three sides as they press a major new offensive against the jihadists near the Turkish border, a spokesman for the fighters said on Monday. But in a sign of the difficulty world powers have faced in building a coalition to take on the self-declared caliphate, the slow pace of a separate assault by the Iraqi army on a militant bastion near Baghdad caused a rift between the Shi'ite-led government and powerful Iranian-backed Shi'ite militia. The simultaneous assaults on Manbij in Syria and Falluja in Iraq, at opposite ends of Islamic State territory, are two of the biggest operations yet against Islamic State in what Washington says is the year it hopes to roll back the caliphate. The Syria Democratic Forces (SDF), including a Kurdish militia and Arab allies that joined it last year, launched the Manbij attack last week to drive Islamic State from its last stretch of the Syrian-Turkish frontier. If … [Read more...]
Boosting Seaport Cooperation with South Korea
Boosting Seaport Cooperation with South Korea The Vietnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry (VCCI) in partnership with the Port of Pyeongtaek and the Pyeongtaek Regional Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Office of South Korea organised a workshop on advantages of Pyeongtaek to Vietnamese businesses in Hanoi on April 21, 2015. Speaking at the meeting, VCCI Deputy President Doan Duy Khuong appreciated the cooperation between enterprises in the two countries to promote trade in goods through the Port of Pyeongtaek. To do this, the Port of Pyeongtaek needs to strengthen promotion and introduce its potential, position and preferential policies for shipowners and shippers in Vietnam. Pyeongtaek is a city in Gyeonggi Province, about 80 km southwest of Seoul City. This is a young city with modern economic and education facilities. The Port of Pyeongtaek is the fifth largest general port in South Korea, serving the needs of Central South Korea and Seoul City where more than 100 industrial zones … [Read more...]
HCM City can do more to attract more tourists
VietNamNet Bridge – HCM City has great potentials to develop tourism, but it still cannot attract as many tourists as expected due to the monotonous tourism products. HCM City keeps leading the country in the number of tourists it attracts with 3 million domestic and foreign tourists coming to the city in the first 11 months of the year. The figure represents the 8.4 percent increase in comparison with the same period of the last year, fulfilling 88 percent of the yearly plan. The tourism industry brought to the city 44,300 billion dong in revenue in the first 11 months of the year, up by 21 percent over the same period of the last year. However, experts still believe that HCM City still can attract more tourists if it does more things. Waterway tourism products remain monotonous HCM City has a dense system of rivers and canals; therefore, it is understandable why the city’s localities try to develop waterways tourism. Tourists can travel on boats along the … [Read more...]
HCM City considers relocation of markets to ease traffic congestion
HCM City authorities plan to relocate some of the city’s wholesale and retail markets to ease traffic congestion and ensure safety for residents. The Hồ Thị Kỷ Flower Market in District 10 is HCM City’s largest wholesale flower market. Many longstanding, traditional markets still exist in urban areas, including wholesale flower markets Hồ Thị Kỷ in District 10 and Đầm Sen in District 11, and the wholesale dried-fish market in District 6. Trần Thúy Liên, director of Bình Điền Wholesale Market Management and Trade Company, said that it was unfair to continue to maintain wholesale markets in the inner city when other wholesale markets had relocated to outlying districts. Liên, speaking at a meeting on Monday, said that she had asked the city government to step up relocation of inner-city wholesale markets to Bình Điền Wholesale Market in District 8. The management board … [Read more...]
Vietnam, Russia harvest successes in cooperation in 2009
The Radio the Voice of Russia (VoR) on January 13 aired a review of the Russia-Vietnam cooperation, quoting Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as saying that the year 2009 saw many achievements gained by the two countries in its relations in recent years. The Russian President was cited as saying that in 2009 Russia ’s cooperation with Vietnam was not affected by the global economic crisis as he mentioned in his talks with Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung in Moscow last December. The two countries’ two-way trade rose 4.1 percent to 1.1 billion USD in just nine months of the year, the Russian leader said, also stressing increases in bilateral cooperation in the other fields. He laid special emphasis on cooperation in energy, citing an example of the Vietsovpetro joint venture company, which has been keeping its effective operation thus far. Russia ’s Gazprom giant group has entered Vietnam after it received in February a licence to exploit oil as gas in Vietnam ’s … [Read more...]
Trudeau ends busy day in Ho Chi Minh City with jog along iconic canal
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s tight working schedule in Ho Chi Minh City on Thursday did not stop him from enjoying a day-end jog around the southern hub.The leader has been in Vietnam since Wednesday for an official two-day state visit followed by attendance at several events within the framework of the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week in Da Nang.Trudeau spent Wednesday meeting with Vietnamese leaders in Hanoi, where he and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc co-chaired a press conference announcing the historic establishment of a comprehensive partnership between Vietnam and Canada.On Thursday, the Canadian PM continued his trip in Ho Chi Minh City, where he met city chairman Nguyen Thanh Phong to discuss room for cooperation in service, banking, finance, information technology, education, and startups.Trudeau hinted at the possibility of Canada providing support for the southern hub to realize its vision of developing into a ‘smart city,’ … [Read more...]
Vietnam, France cooperate in training skilled personnel
The city has received great support from the French government in training technicians in laboratory and equipment package, said Director of the Center of Analytical Services and Experimention (CASE) Chu Van Hai at a meeting with Emmanuel Ly-Batallan, Consul General of the French Republic in Ho Chi Minh City yesterday. In the period 2011-2016, the municipal People’s Committee invested in over US$4.3 million to expanding the facility with the target of converting the center into international –level center. In addition, the city also spent EUR1.4 million to build a laboratory for research and development of animal feed. The center is now under the Department of Science and Technology.At first the center was built based on French – Vietnamese Government technological cooperation Program. After 30 years, CASE is now a member of the laboratory network in analyzing agricultural, forestry and fishery products in the world Le Réseau Experagro.CASE has also welcomed … [Read more...]