Ho Chi Minh City

Accordingly, the bridge to replace current Cat Lai ferry is expected to not only smooth traffic flow but also connect the traffic network of the South’s triangular economic zone including Ho Chi Minh City, Ba Ria- Vung Tau and Dong Nai, said Mr. Tran Van Vinh.  After completion and putting into operations, Cat Lai Bridge connecting Ho Chi Minh City with the provincial road No. 25C of Dong Nai and future Long Thanh International Airport will contribute reducing a high volume of vehicles and traffic congestion for the Ho Chi Minh City- Long Thanh and Dau Giay Expressway on normal days and the holidays.  Pursuant to the Government Office's Notice No. 51/TB-VPCP, Deputy Prime Minister Vuong Dinh Hue agreed to assign Dong Nai province to be the project investor and work with the Ministry of Transport and Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee over the project in accordance with the current regulations through considering the investment scale, schedule and forms.  … [Read more...] about HCMC and Dong Nai province speed up construction of Cat Lai Bridge

Around 350 booths of nearly 400 nationwide cooperatives and 40 cooperative enterprises participated in the event.    The four- day fair (on April 17- 20) is an important event to continue promoting the cooperative economy and help cooperatives consume products, expand manufacturing production and business uder value chain models.  Thousands of agricultural products, vegetables, fruits, medicinal herbs, wood products, etc have been showcased at the fair expressing the potentials, advantages, productivity and culture of each locality.   Within the fair framework, there are main activities as displaying, introducing and selling organic products, goods and services of the participants  to ensure food safety; signing trade promotion agreements between the cooperatives with domectic and foreign enterprises; organizing consultancy activities on trade promotion to access to technology credit capital and investment capital for cooperatives. On this occasion … [Read more...] about 400 cooperatives join trade promotion fair

In March 2015, the Ministry of Transport announced the list of investors registering to build the new bridge and dredge a 71 kilometer long passage in the Saigon river from the bridge to Ben Suc port in the neighboring province of Binh Duong. The joint venture between GUD and STD construction firms was chosen to be the investor of the project of building the 1.3 kilometer long bridge with the height from the water surface to the bridge reaching seven meters, 5.5 meters higher than that of the old one, to facilitate waterway traffic. According to Binh Loi BOT Investment Company, the new bridge project has the total investment funds of VND1,302 billion (US$56.13 million) with eight consulting and construction bid packages, locating 12 meters downstream from the old one. It has been designed to allow trains to travel at the speed of 100 kilometers an hour. The Project Management Board No.7 under the Ministry of Transport said that the project is expected to be built on April 30. … [Read more...] about New railway bridge continues running behind schedule in HCMC

The city leader welcomed the United States’ attempts on maritime freedom in the East Sea, and appraised supports of India, Japan and Australia in regional peacekeeping and security.  Additionally, he also evaluated U.S projects on dioxin cleaning at Da Nang and Bien Hoa airports as well as efforts to overcome postwar consequences. Vietnam desired to not only strengthen further the comprehensive partnership with the United States on basic of international and regional benefits but also to have more and more meaningful activities between the two countries towards the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relationship normalization in 2020. Adm. Phil Davidson thanked Vietnam as well as many countries in the region for their supports in maintaining maritime freedom and reporting about upcoming cooperation plans between USINDOPACOM and Vietnam. He believed that Vietnam would have positive contributions to the regional peacekeeping and security as well as achieve new developments in … [Read more...] about City Party Chief receives Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command

According to the plan, the city will build a mechanism to develop human resources for the medical sector. Moreover, it will launch new training models and improve training quality for nursing students. Of new training models, higher educational institutions will focus on post-graduate training in ten months or two years for newly-graduated students who work in district-level medical facilities. Additionally, HCMC will continue to send managers in the health sector to participate in fresh courses on hospital management and leadership in Australia, Japan and South Korea in 2019. People’s Committee in HCMC has also built regulations on recruitment and assignment of medicine graduates and staffs to work in public infirmaries and carried out policies to attract and support good medical workers to work in outlying districts and special institutions for people living with HIV or leprosy, forensic science, tuberculosis, and mental sickness. The city will also support good physicians … [Read more...] about HCMC attracts excellent medical graduates to work in outlying districts