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HCMC to impose e-health declaration mandate starting tomorrow The Saigon Times Passengers make health declarations at the Noi Bai airport in Hanoi. All residents in HCMC are required to make electronic health declarations starting tomorrow, June 24 - PHOTO: VNA HCMC – All residents in HCMC are required to make electronic health declarations starting tomorrow, June 24, to serve the fight against Covid-19, which is showing no signs of abating in the city. Duong Anh Duc, vice chairman of the municipal government, has sent a dispatch to departments, agencies, the authorities of Thu Duc City, and districts regarding the citywide electronic health declaration mandate. Duc said that HCMC had launched the “Electronic Health Declaration System” which can apply to all medical facilities in the city, aimed at facilitating contact tracing activities. To continue enhancing the effectiveness of the e-health declaration system in the anti-virus fight, the city asked all … [Read more...] about HCMC to impose e-health declaration mandate starting tomorrow

Night tour to Thang Long Imperial Citadel (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The number of tourists to Hanoi in the first half of 2021 is estimated at 2.9 million, down 25 percent year-on-year, according to the municipal Tourism Department. The city has earned only 8.1 trillion VND (352.6 million USD) from tourism services, a year-on-year decrease of 57 percent. Currently, Vietnam has not yet opened its doors to international tourists. The number of foreigners coming to Hanoi during this time is modest, mainly experts and workers staying in Vietnam. Therefore, the capital city’s tourism industry has actively restructured new tourism products with a view to better serving domestic tourists , such as a night tour to decipher Thang Long Imperial Citadel – a UNESCO-recognised world cultural heritage site, a folk experience tour to the Museum of Ethnology, or a night tour to the Hoa Lo prison relic site. The city is designing and making a system of tourist signs, logos … [Read more...] about Hanoi welcomes 2.9 million visitors in first half 2021

A worker collecting latex in a rubber plantation of Vietnam Rubber Group (GVR)'s member in Chu Pah District, Gia Lai Province. The company shares posted the biggest losses yesterday. — VNS/VNA Photo Shares inched down on Wednesday, weighed by strong selling pressure across most sectors despite gains in some large-cap stocks. The market benchmark VN-Index on the Ho Chi Minh Stock Exchange (HoSE) declined by 0.22 per cent to 1,376.87 points. The market's breath stayed negative with 298 stocks falling, while 94 stocks rose and 51 ended flat. The liquidity was high as more than 710.77 million shares were traded on the market, worth over VND21.1 trillion (US$528.6 million). The market was weighed by selling forces despite rallies in large-cap stocks, especially bank stocks. The VN30-Index, which tracks 30 biggest stocks in market capitalisation on HoSE, climbed slightly 0.02 per cent to 1,489.53 points. Twenty stocks of the VN30 basket plummeted, while only nine jumped and one … [Read more...] about Market falls on strong selling forces

Tran Van Duy has been fined 12.5 million VND (545 USD) for posting fake news about COVID-19. (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) - The Hanoi Department of Information and Communications has issued an administrative fine on Tran Van Duy from Hoang Mai district, born in 1982, for posting fake news online, department director Nguyen Thanh Liem has said. Duy, the owner of the Facebook account “Ha Noi Pho” (https//www.facebook.com/hanoiphotv), spread a video of Hanoi streets on May 4 entitled “Hanoi streets quiet on the first day of lockdown”. After studying the information, department inspectors found it was incorrect and violated regulations stipulated in Article 5 of Government Decree No 72/2013/ND-CP dated July 15, 2017 on managing, supplying, and using internet services and information on the internet. Based on Point a, Clause 3, Article 99 of Decree No 15/2020/ND-CP issued by the Government on February 3, 2020, the department fined Duy 12.5 million VND (545 USD) for his … [Read more...] about Facebooker fined for spreading fake news about COVID-19 in Hanoi

Phu Quoc Island is a popular tourist destination in summer. It has the most beautiful beaches in Vietnam. There you can also sample delicious seafood. Phu Quoc Island in Kien Giang province is Vietnam’s largest island. It is blessed with beautiful scenery and rich natural resources. Visitors to Phu Quoc love its peaceful sea and long sandy beaches which distinguish it from other seaside resorts like Nha Trang and Da Nang. Bella, a tourist from Switzerland said that shelike Phu Quoc very much because people are very friendly and the island is beautiful. Beautiful pristine beach Most hotels and resorts in Phu Quoc are located along Bai Dai, or Long Beach, where the sea is as blue as sapphire and nature is unspoiled. The ABC News selected Bai Dai beach in Phu Quoc as one of the world’s 5 most beautiful and clean beaches. Its “Hidden beaches” list called Bai Dai a heaven of sun, water, and peaceful nature. Bai Sao, or Star Beach on the island’s southeast … [Read more...] about Phu Quoc Island: a popular destination in summer

Secretary of the municipal Party’s Committee Dinh Tien Dung meets visiting Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivan Balakrishnan in Hanoi on June 22. (Photo: Ha Noi Moi) Hanoi (VNA) – Hanoi wants to step up technology transfer and experience sharing with Singapore, Secretary of the municipal Party’s Committee Dinh Tien Dung told Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivan Balakrishnan during their meeting in Hanoi on June 22. FM Balakrishnan is on an official visit to Vietnam to attend the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM)’s High-level Policy Dialogue, an initiative by Vietnam on the occasion of the grouping’s 25th anniversary. The Singaporean diplomat expressed his admiration for Hanoi’s long history and cultural richness, saying the capital city has a distinctive blend of old and new and this should be preserved in conjunction with its urban development effort. He added that Hanoi and Singapore can learn from each other’s experience in multiple fields. Dung, for his part, briefed his … [Read more...] about Hanoi wishes to step up technology transfer, experience sharing with Singapore