JuliaN Wong, General manager, Sheraton Hanoi This festive season the peak days fall into weekdays - Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve will be on Mondays. All of our hotel activities will be expanded to cover the weekends and weekdays. Guests will enjoy more celebratory activities for this festive season at Sheraton Hanoi Hotel. As we commit to an international service culture of personalised and memorable experiences through Hanoi’s gracefulness, ethnic cuisine, innovation and green practices that promises satisfaction, Sheraton Hanoi is proud to be the favourite destination of travellers. This year, we forecast an increase in leisure business for rooms besides expecting a stronger year end and festive season business for outlets and banquets – most notably yearend parties and weddings. Our hotel also forecast a slowdown in terms of business travellers as expected over those periods but overall, we have still seen a positive trend. Julien Pechey, General manager, … [Read more...] about Festive Fever in Vietnam
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Vietnam sacks, demotes top cops for state secret law violations
Prime Minster Nguyen Xuan Phuc signed the decisions to punish the two officials on Wednesday, 11 days after the Communist Party dismissed them from their Party positions and recommended further disciplinary actions. Bui Van Thanh has accordingly been dismissed from his position as Deputy Minister of Public Security, while Tran Viet Tan has retroactively lost his title as Deputy Minister of Public Security for the term 2011-2016 for violations previously uncovered by the Party's inspectors. The prime minister has also submitted a report to the president asking that Thanh and Tan be demoted from lieutenant general to colonel and colonel general to lieutenant general, respectively. The decisions to punish Thanh and Tan came after the Party's Central Inspection Committee reported on their violations and recommended disciplinary actions at a three-day meeting last month. According to the inspectors, Thanh, as the deputy public security minister responsible for the ministry's General … [Read more...] about Vietnam sacks, demotes top cops for state secret law violations
Vietnam Party dismisses top Public Security officials, recommends demotion
They have been found violating rules on protecting state secrets and mismanaging public land and property. Lieutenant General Bui Van Thanh, Deputy Minister of Public Security, was dismissed from all Party positions at a Politburo meeting on Saturday. Thanh was member of the Executive Committee of Public Security Force's Party Unit for the term 2016-2021 and member of the Executive Committee of the Party unit of the ministry's General Department of Logistics-Engineering between 2010 and 2015. The Politburo, the highest decision-making body of the Communist Party of Vietnam, also dismissed Colonel General Tran Viet Tan, former Deputy Minister of Public Security, from his position as member of the Executive Committee of the Public Security Force's Party unit for the 2011-2016 term. It has tasked the government with carrying out further disciplinary actions against the two generals, including demotion in the police force. The decisions to punish Thanh and Tan came after the Party's … [Read more...] about Vietnam Party dismisses top Public Security officials, recommends demotion
Vietnam’s top Public Security officials stripped of Party titles
Lieutenant General Bui Van Thanh, Deputy Minister of Public Security, was dismissed from all Party positions at a meeting of the Communist Party's decision-making body, the Politburo, on Saturday. Thanh was member of the Executive Committee of Public Security Force's Party Unit for the term 2016-2021 and member of the Executive Committee of the Party unit of the ministry's General Department of Logistics-Engineering between 2010 and 2015. At the meeting, the Politburo also dismissed Colonel General Tran Viet Tan, former Deputy Minister of Public Security, from his position as member of the Executive Committee of the Public Security Force's Party unit for the term 2011-2016. It has tasked the government with carrying out further disciplinary actions against the two generals and reducing their ranks in the police force. Vietnam's Party has four modes of punishment for members: reprimand, warning, demotion and expulsion. The decisions to punish Thanh and Tan came after the Party's Central … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s top Public Security officials stripped of Party titles
Vietnam’s top Public Security officials stripped of Party titles, face rank demotion
Lieutenant General Bui Van Thanh, Deputy Minister of Public Security, was dismissed from all Party positions at a meeting of the Party's decision-making body, the Politburo, on Saturday. He was member of the Executive Committee of Public Security Force's Party Unit for the term 2016-2021 and member of the Executive Committee of the Party unit of the ministry's General Department of Logistics-Engineering between 2010 and 2015. At the meeting, the Politburo also dismissed Colonel General Tran Viet Tan, former Deputy Minister of Public Security, from his position as member of the Executive Committee of the Public Security Force's Party unit for the term 2011-2016. It has tasked the government with carrying out further disciplinary actions against the two generals and reducing their ranks in the police force. Vietnam's Party has four modes of punishment for members: reprimand, warning, demotion and expulsion. The decisions to punish Thanh and Tan came after the Party's Central Inspection … [Read more...] about Vietnam’s top Public Security officials stripped of Party titles, face rank demotion