Hcm city needs usd1 25 billion for solid waste treatment by 2025

A traditional music festival titled Nhạc Hội Đờn Ca Tài Tử Nam Bộ (South Folk Music Festival) will take place in front of the city’s Opera House on Đồng Khởi Street, District 1, on January 30. … [Read more...] about HCM City offers cultural activities for Tết

Hanoi (VNA) - The Viettel Posts Joint Stock Corporation (Viettel Post) has opened an automatic logistics centre at District No.12, Ho Chi Minh City. The event marked a new development of Viettel Post in shifting from a post and delivery corporation to a logistics one, in an effort to become a leading technology-based logistics enterprise in Vietnam by 2025, the Quan doi Nhan dan (People’s Army) newspaper reported. Addressing the event, Director of Viettel Post Tran Trung Hung informed that in Vietnam, foreign logistics enterprises are currently controlling 80 percent of the market share. He suggested that domestic logistics companies should invest more in modern technology so as to enhance its competitiveness at home and in the international arena. He stressed, the establishment of the most modern logistics centre of Viettel Post in the South of the country aims not only to expand Viettel Post’s business in the South but also to contribute to building national logistics … [Read more...] about Viettel Post opens automatic logistics centre in HCM City

Overall, the city’s taxman in 2020 collected VND123 billion in income taxes from ecommerce activities on popular online platforms including Google, Facebook and YouTube, up fivefold compared to the 2019 figure. Most of the ecommerce taxpayers were individuals, Son said. … [Read more...] about Hanoian girl pays over VND23 billion in income taxes on app development

HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Vietnam’s imports of high-value seafood such as king crabs and lobsters are rising due to their falling prices, and are expected to rise even further during the Lunar New Year (Tet) Festival, experts have said. Robert Greenan, Deputy Consul General at the US Consulate in Ho Chi Minh City, said last year exports of Alaskan seafood rose 125 percent to 19 million USD. Vietnam became the US’s sixth largest buyer of agricultural products and foodstuffs with imports worth 4 billion USD. According to the Alaska Seafood Marketing Institute in Vietnam, demand for seafood is rising in the country, and several processing factories are moving from China to Vietnam due to tariffs. Alaskan seafood is mostly bought by restaurants and hotels and processors. The institute aims to expand the distribution network so that more customers can buy Alaskan seafood for cooking at home. During Tet, there is especially high demand for Alaskan king crab since it is relatively … [Read more...] about Demand for imported high-value seafood rises

Phu Nhuan Jewelry Joint Stock Company maintained its growth momentum last year amid a strong decline of the domestic jewelry market in general, with its revenue reaching VND17.511 trillion (US$759.4 million), a year-on-year increase of 3 per cent, and surpassing 21 per cent of the target set for last year. … [Read more...] about PNJ profit surpasses 21 per cent target