Hanoi (VNA) – France's news agency AFP on January 20 published an article on how tourism has been developed in and benefited local community around Vietnam’s Son Doong, which has been dubbed the world’s largest cave. According to the article, located in the central province of Quang Binh’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park – the World Heritage site, Son Doong was first discovered by local forager Ho Khanh in 1991, when he stumbled upon an opening in a limestone cliff and heard the sounds of a river deep inside. But after returning home through the thick surrounding jungle, Khanh forgot where the hidden entrance lay, and it stayed lost for another two decades. When he eventually led a team of British experts back there in 2009, the team found it had the largest cross-section of any cave anywhere on the planet. It is large enough to house the 40-floor skyscrapers of an entire New York City block, according to adventure tour company Oxalis, which guides … [Read more...] about Tourism on track in the world’s largest cave: AFP
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People urged to continue pandemic prevention to ensure peaceful Tet
Hanoi (VNA) - The COVID-19 pandemic has been well controlled in Vietnam, but risks of an outbreak are still present, especially with the Tet (Lunar New Year) holiday approaching, leading experts to warn that people need to strictly abide by preventive regulations. Associate professor Tran Dac Phu, senior advisor to the Vietnam Emergency Operations Centre, told Ha Noi Moi (New Hanoi) newspaper that the current risk of infection was mainly due to a lack of strict control of entry and lax quarantining. Each ministry, branch and locality must continue to seriously implement pandemic prevention and control measures, he said, adding that along with the strict control and prevention of illegal entry, local authorities and police need to closely monitor border areas, especially land borders. Along calling on provincial and municipal health departments to strictly implement COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long urged … [Read more...] about People urged to continue pandemic prevention to ensure peaceful Tet
30Shine rises high with AWS Cloud
AWS, which has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offers over 175 services for computing, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning, and AI, IoT, mobile, security, hybrid, virtual, and augmented reality, media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 18 more Availability Zones and six more AWS Regions. … [Read more...] about 30Shine rises high with AWS Cloud
VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 20
As e-commerce is a field which needs significant capital, Vietnamese businesses without a parent company with strong financial potential would not be able to develop and compete as they are only allowed to access capital from the narrow list of investors announced periodically by the Ministry of Industry and Trade, he said. … [Read more...] about VIETNAM BUSINESS NEWS JANUARY 20
MobiFone co-operates with Ha Giang through digital transformation
In the opposite direction, the Viet Nam National Administration of Tourism and MobiFone will help the province guide the use of smart travel systems and applications and at the same time support communication, promotion for events, tourism products and tourist information of the province to domestic and foreign tourists. … [Read more...] about MobiFone co-operates with Ha Giang through digital transformation