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A VND10.99-trillion (USD478 million) project to build Terminal 3 at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in HCM City has been submitted to Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc for consideration. The project, to be invested by the Airport Corporation of Vietnam (ACV), includes the construction of Terminal 3 covering 110,000 square metres and serving around 20 million passengers per year and the expansion of the airport landing areas. Tan Son Nhat International Airport According to the Ministry of Planning and Investment (MPI) which proposed the project to the prime minister, the project is in line with HCM City’s plan to raise Tan Son Nhat International Airport’s total passenger limit to 50 million yearly, particularly given the airport’s current serious over-capacity. ACV said that the project scale has been carefully taken into account based on forecasts for Tan Son Nhat International Airport and the future Long Thanh International Airport in Dong Nai Province. The … [Read more...] about USD478-million Tan Son Nhat airport terminal project submitted to PM

A SIM card store on Hà Nội’s Giải Phóng Street. All SIM card stores in the city will be checked and not allowed to sell unregistered SIM cards. – Photo vietnamplus.vn Viet Nam News HÀ NỘI — The Hà Nội Department of Information and Communications has set up inter-sector inspection teams to supervise the management of pre-paid SIM cards in the city from November 29 to December 31, department chief inspector Nguyễn Văn Minh said. The city’s Department of Industry and Trade, police, market surveillance force and people’s committees at the district level joined the inspection. The move came following a request by the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) to retrieve pre-activated SIM cards across the country. It is aimed at strengthening information security of mobile phone service users and cracking down on the illegal purchase of SIM cards and promotional programmes. The … [Read more...] about Hà Nội set to inspect SIM card retailers

He hosted a reception in Hanoi on March 22 for the out-going ambassador who came to bid farewell to the leader. President Quang said he is glad to see positive developments in bilateral ties, and wished the two sides would continue deploying the agreements reached at the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee in November 2016, especially visit exchanges and trade promotion. At the reception The Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia has over the year supplied an ODA of 174 million USD for 13 projects in Vietnam. It is negotiating loan agreements for projects to be carried out in the central highlands province of Dak Nong and the northern province of Yen Bai. President Quang hailed the Ambassador’s efforts in the fund’s activities and expressed his hopes that Saudi Arabia continues support for Vietnam in the future. He was delighted that the two countries have coordinated closely and supported each other at regional and international forums, … [Read more...] about President hosts outgoing Saudi Arabian Ambassador

Visitors check information on products at the fair. — VNS Photo Nearly 80 specialties from the northern mountainous province of Lao Cai are being displayed at the Lao Cai agricultural and OCOP products exhibition which began on Friday at the Big C Thang Long supermarket in Ha Noi. The three-day event is part of efforts made by the province and Big C, Central Group Vietnam, to introduce safe and high-quality products from other regions to the capital city’s citizens, as well as helping promote “One Community One Product” (OCOP) programme and grow local businesses and farmers. On display are 45 OCOP products certified with three to five stars such as Seng Cu rice, Tham Duong glutinous rice, sausages, dried pork, smoked buffalo meat, cabbages, chayote, kohlrabi, mushrooms, Muong Khuong chili sauce, dried bamboo shoots, medicinal herbs, tea, wine, vermicelli and smoke salmon. According to Nguyen Xuan Nhan, deputy director of the province’s Department of … [Read more...] about Capital gets to taste Lao Cai Province’s local specialties

  A bird's eye view of the newly-built Đuống River water plant. — VNA/VNS File Photo HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội’s top leader has criticised the city's finance director for making a “fundamentally wrong” statement about an unusually high tap water price which sparked a protest from residents last month. The city People’s Committee chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung told a hearing of the municipal People’s Council on Wednesday that tap water issue was a matter many Hanoians cared greatly about. “I asked the Hà Nội finance department director at a work meeting of the city government on November 29 to seriously look back at and learn from his fundamentally wrong statement that cause misunderstanding among the citizens,” he said. Chung was referring to an announcement by finance department director Nguyễn Việt Hà claiming that 20 per cent of the price of … [Read more...] about Finance official ‘fundamentally wrong’ about water price: Hà Nội leader